Therapeutical Medicine

In the perspective demographic epidemiologist and, they had diminished the taxes of mortality for infectious and parasitic illnesses (acute processes) and raised it mortality for chronic-degenerative illnesses, leading to a reduction of fecundidade, increase of the life expectancy and population aging. However, in Brazil, in contrast of what it happened in the Europe and the United States, these changes had not the same occurred in historical process for all the population, occurring a characteristic heterogeneidade of our territories. This fact over all contributed so that it had, in the profile of morbidade and mortality in the country, persistence of problems of the poverty and the overlapping with males of modernity (10). A great parcel of the population simultaneously passed to be displayed to these risks and happened others with industrialization: industrial accidents, illnesses of the circulatrio device, upheavals of emotional order, violent neoplasias and deaths. Historically, the confrontation of these problems for the population and services of health had implied in the majority of the cases, in the daily expensive medicine use, being many inductive times of many collateral effect, and boardings focadas in the biomedical model, not getting in all the cases the relief of the suffering of the people (10, 11). In this direction, the adhesion to therapeutical practical others for the population has been each observed time more.

Some of these practical which the population adheres, as acupuntura, homeopatia, fitoterapia, before kept out of society, now occupy place of prominence in the doctor-institucional speeches and the politics of health (7, 12, 13). Data raised, in the year of 2006, they pointed that 19 capitals and 232 cities of the country already adopted one or more than these practical. The Federal District is part of the select group of units that have practical available integrativas of health in the basic attention of all Regional ones..