Self-care: health workers in times of pandemic by COVID-19

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Gabriela de Brito Martins
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Lima, Rita de Cássia Duarte, Barbosa, Jeanine Pacheco Moreira, Silva, Mayara Ciciliotti da, Andrade, Maria Angélica Carvalho
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Trabalho, Educação e Saúde (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.tes.epsjv.fiocruz.br/index.php/tes/article/view/781
• topic: Covid-19; mulheres trabalhadoras; cuidado de si; biopolítica; pandemias; pandemics; COVID-19; working women; self care; biopolitics; pandemias; Covid-19; mujeres trabajadoras; cuidado de sí; biopolítica

The COVID-19 pandemic is not just a health problem, it is considered a profound shock to our societies and economies, highlighting a care crisis in which health professionals, especially women, are at the center of service and response efforts. Thus, this article aimed to problematize care practices during the COVID-19 pandemic with a focus on the right to protection for women health professionals, according to Michel Foucault’s conceptions of self-care, considering the power-knowledge axis. The study goes on to question about the crisis of care and makes self-care of health workers visible especially during the COVID-19 pandemic as a possible way for the reversion of domination practices through the creation of freedom practices, affirming the production of care as a creator of value and respect for the life of all.