Professionals’ Memories of a Family Health Unit on marital violence against women

The intention of this article is to check the health professionals memory of a Family Health Unit located in the suburbs of Vitória da Conquista, Bahia-Brazil, about the manifestations of violence against women imposed by the intimate partner. Method: Our study, of qualitative character, favoured the semi-structured interview technique with the authors previously elaborated script. Results: From the analysis of the data collected, we identified that the relationship of health professionals to the problem of violence against women, present in daily life, is extremely impotent and that most people see themselves as "hands tied" when regardingthe assistance, guidance and referral of the victims to shelters and to fight violence. Conclusion: The study demonstrated that the family health strategy has a previous focus on the health disease process and does not embrace the problem of violence, which causes serious damage to women's health and contributes to the maintenance of violence invisibility.