The Street Office in the city of São Paulo: demands and challenges in longitudinal health care, expansion and coverage of territories

Abstract

This essay aims to present a brief historical account of the composition, continuity and expansion of the activities carried out by the
teams of “equipes de Consultório na Rua – eCnaR” Street Consulting Teams in the city of São Paulo. The eCnaR were created from
the “Programa Saúde da Família – PSF” Family Health Program- PSF for the health care of homeless people and those ones who
are under social vulnerability. eCnaR was born from the mobilization of this population, being developed in 2004, it has the intention
of building strategies for effective insertion in the “Sistema Único de Saúde – SUS” Health Unic System, considering the realities
of life of this population segment. As the growing production of knowledge on the subject, the possibility of building views on
practice and theory was observed. Analyzing, until 2022, the processes carried out, expansions and restructuring according to the
growth of the homeless population in the central region and in new locations in the Municipality, as well as the presentation of the
possibility of health care at different times, with new technologies and partnerships, also aiming at the challenges presented in this
period, such as the recent Pandemic of the Coronavirus.