The concept of health and sickness by families assisted by the strategy of family health

The objective of this work it is to learn the concept of health and sickness from two families that lives on the West Region of Sao Paulo City/SP. Those families are assisted by Strategy of Family Health (SFH). It was adopted the qualitative methodology. It was chosen families with cases of systemic arterial hypertension (HA) and tuberculosis (TB) that are some of the SFH priorities. The other reason those sicknesses were chosen it was because they are considered invisible (HA) and visible (TB) sickness. The data was obtained using a semi-structured technique of interview. It was interviewed different members of each family (8 people total). The material produced was analysed producing 2 thematic important points: (1) health according to Leriche and (2) Gender: the women sickness and the men vulnerability for the sickness (the indifference of sickness in women, the work as cause and consequence of sickness and the men vulnerability of sickness).