Community Health Agents and the care of caregivers: work and subjectivity(ies)

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Adriana Kelly
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Mendonça, Erica Toledo de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Medicina de Família e Comunidade (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.rbmfc.org.br/rbmfc/article/view/2118
• topic: Community Health Workers; Occupational Health; Socio-analysis; Patient-Centered Care; Agentes Comunitarios de Salud; Salud Laboral; Socio-analítica; Atención Dirigida al Paciente; Metabolic Agentes Comunitários de Saúde; Saúde do Trabalhador; Socioanálise; Cuidado Centrado no Paciente.

Between the years 2011-2012, we developed the workshop “The self-care and care of the others in the work of the Community Health Agents (CHA)” aimed at training and intervention in the work of the CHA. Teachers and students of the medical course of a public university in Minas Gerais sought to discuss how the creation of spaces of speech demonstrate that welcoming and caring for those who care is essential in the practice of the CHA. The socio-analysis perspective adopted guided the direct observation of the activities carried out by women CHA, the team meetings focused on a theoretical-methodological reflection and the realization of the workshop according to thematic axes: Self-Care, Teamwork and Technical Contents. From this, we made cartographies of the geographic, political and social territory, we know the life trajectories of the CHA and we identify that the link between work and subjectivity allowed CHA, students and teachers to exercise listening to themselves and the other and the experience of care as work. We concluded that the workshop has become a space for political formation and generated changes in the daily life of the CHA involved.