Abstract
This study aims to analyze the production of health in the field, from experiences in rural settlement linked to the Landless Workers Movement (MST) in the Metropolitan Region of Recife, Pernambuco. The study is the result of an extension project developed by residents (interns) in family health and community health, which aimed to promote the visibility of this population experiencing in practice what is being a peasant, in dialogue with health promotion, popular education and the principles of the movement. The project was built with the health sector of MST-PE and lasted 12 months, during which we worked the Participatory Rural Appraisal, among other activities in fortnightly meetings. From the experiences and documental analysis of reports and other documents, we sought to systematize the production of health in the rural areas, placing it under review. Three main categories were identified: the organization, including group work and peasant identity; production of health, including their perception and determinants; identity and struggles of the settler population. As a result, it was considered that the organization and mobilization of settlement as a movement are asleep, even though potent; that reference models lay still in biomedical health, relating health to medical care actions. There are few actions to promote health or education referenced in popular education, but they may be developed. The power of the movement and its integration with health internships may signal the prospect of reframing health in the settlements and the construction of other projects such as Health Internship in rural area.
