Fernandes, S. L. (2016). Therapeutic itineraries and public health policy in a quilombo community of the rough of Alagoas, Brazil. Doctorate Thesis, Psychology Institut, University of São Paulo, São Paulo. This study is characterized by a qualitative research based on a case study that aims to analyze through therapeutic itineraries, such as the National Comprehensive Health of the Black Population Policy how it operates in everyday life and the ways of life of a quilombo community in Alagoas. The research has the theoretical basis guiding the approach to health and human rights. The quilombo community Pau D'arco, study field of this research, is located in the city of Arapiraca, and were selected by the following criterion: 1 -quilombo community recognized for a longer time; 2. community that has more families in its territory; 3. community that has installed in its territory a Basic Health Unit. The participants were 05 community residents who had in its history wornsen in health, which are: 01 young women of the community above 18 years old; 01 adult, 02 elderly and 01 elderly. The 05 intervieweds made possible saturation of the research topic. The research was developed in four stages. The first had consisted in literature and readings review critical dissertations, theses, articles, psi field documents and consultation that apply to the relationship between health and the quilombos population, as well as consulting the Primary Care Information System. The second stage comprises the insertion process of the researcher to the researched community, meetings with community leaders and managers for approval of the research. The third stage was carried out to identify the therapeutic itineraries of the residents of quilombo community through semi-structured interviews, which were submitted to analysis by the content analysis method. The fourth and final stage is the feedback of the search for the community with the presentation of a possible technical product intervention project research. The study was aimed at the construction of the therapeutic itineraries as way of understanding the forms of care produced by rural black community studied in relation to the development of the National Policy on Comprehensive Health of the Black Population in the quilombo territory, as regards access, acceptability and the quality of primary care services provided. El presente estudio se caracteriza por una investigación cualitativa sobre la base de un estudio de caso que busca analizar por medio de los itinerarios terapéuticos, como la Política Nacional de Salud Integral de la Población Negra actúa en el cotidiano y en los modos de vida de una comunidad quilombola en la provincia de Alagoas, en Brasil. La investigación tiene como base teórica orientadora en el enfoque de salud y derechos humanos. La comunidad quilombola Pau D'arco, campo de estudio de la presente investigación, se encuentra ubicada en la ciudad de Arapiraca, y ha sido seleccionada por los siguientes criterios: 1 -comunidad quilombola reconocida desde ...