Weaving networks in health: integrative and complementary practices as possibilities in field education

Abstract

Introduction: the communities of the countryside are living situations of vulnerability, worsened by the pandemic, along with the decrease of agricultural trade and yet, when sickened, still face dificulties to have access to the healthcare system. With the inefficient management of the COVID-19 crisis, cooperated actions of solidarity that favor the autonomy of civil and organized society are necessary to foment other possibilities and ways of promoting health. Objective: To describe the inovative and cooperative experience in countryside education during the pandemic, from the course for formation of multipliers in integrative and complementary practices in healthcare onwards. Methodological components: Experience report about the course built collectively by representatives of entities and social movements. Results: The course mobilized the building of local diagnosis and plans of action, articulating many sectors and people, and encouraging other activities of care. Conclusion: the experience helped to build a network with transformative perspectives in the promotion of health in the territories, made possible by the integrative and complementary practices in healthcare.