Abstract
After 15 years of promulgating the national policy, many health units still have not implemented the Integrative and Complementary Practices. The reasons for this departure from Primary Health Care in the Metropolitan Region of Goiania-GO, Brazil, remain unknown. Thus, this study aims to understand how managers perceive the difficulties of implementing and implementing Integrative and Complementary Health Practices in Primary Health Care. This qualitative, descriptive, and exploratory study was carried out with 24 managers of basic health units through semi-structured interviews, transcribed and analyzed according to Bardin's content structure. Managers attribute the absence of Integrative and Complementary Practices in Primary Health Care to factors such as work overload, lack of support from the health secretariats, prejudice, inadequate infrastructure, lack of financial resources, and insufficient in-service training. Therefore, we conclude that Integrative and Complementary Practices are absent from Primary Health Care, mainly due to structural and organizational barriers. These results may imply the resolution of these obstacles so that Integrative and Complementary Practices can be offered to users of the Unified Health System more equitably.
Keywords:
Complementary Therapies; Primary Health Care; Health Manager; Public Health