Situações de risco e proteção à saúde de adolescentes da Comunidade São Remo

• Autor(a) principal: Shimizu, Eli Ikuta
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da METODISTA
• Texto Completo: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/1390
• topic: adolescência; fatores de risco e de proteção; baixa renda; adolescence; factors of risk and protection; low income; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

One in every five people in the world is an adolescent, a person between 10 and 19 years old. About 85% of that living in developing countries (WHO, 2006). In Brazil 21% of the population is in this age range, (IBGE, 2002). Adolescents are generally thought to be healthy, but it is recognizes the increase of the mortality in accident, suicide, violence, pregnancy related complication and other illnesses that are either preventable or treatable. The objective of this study is to investigate the situations of risk and protection to the health, for a low income adolescents. It is a qualitative descriptive study, carried through in the community of São Remo, São Paulo City, characterized for the poverty and the violence. The method used for collection of data was the focus group. 20 adolescents participated, divided in two groups, one of 12 to 14 years and another one of 15 to 18 years. Three meetings with each group were carried. The meetings were recorded, transcribed and the content of these data were analised according to Bardin (1977). The research results demonstrated that situations of risks to the health are consequence of the fragil familiar support, physical violence caused by third with emphasis in the police violence, psychological violence, test of social inclusion at school, use of drugs and transgressive behaviors. The factors of protection detected were: family, particulary the mother figure, religions, teacher as reference and future projects. The results demonstrate that the situations of risk to the health of low income adolescents are more evident than for those concerning protection.