The Support Center for Family Health (NASF) has emerged as a proposal to improve health practices. However, since its inception, many challenges have surfaced, setting up a problem that needs to be modified. Thus, the objective of this article is to think over NASF' prospects and challenges as for health practices. This is a literature review carried out by surveying SciELO and Lilacs databases within the period April-May 2012. It was concluded that, yet being recognized as a support to the Family Health Strategy (FHS), NASF does not act articulately, making changes imperative in the organization of services and in the conduct of health professionals.
Primary Health Care; Patient care team; Public health policy