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The conceptions of health, disease, care and care practices in family units of marketers in Feira de Santana-BA constitute the object of the study with the objective of understanding the relationships between the conceptions of health, disease and the ways of seeing their practices. An exploratory research was conducted in the qualitative approach, with 16 market workers, through semi-structured interview. The work was submitted to thematic content analysis. The conceptions about health, disease and care are linked to explanatory models of the health-disease process emanating from the professional care sector and socially constructed action logics and articulate with the ways of acting in daily life to provide care. The family stands out in care practices through the use of solidarity to strengthen forces aimed at overcoming health problems. Among the therapeutic options, marketers use the informal sector, especially the home care offered by their support network. The family is constituted as a social support network that assumes a moral and solidary duty in the provision of health care to its members, without giving up the health care networks.