Agente comunitário de saúde: a construção de um poder capturado

• Autor(a) principal: Correia, Emilia Maria de Andrade
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/4230
• topic: Community Health Agent; Basic healthcare; Power; Healthcare.; Agente Comunitário de Saúde; Atenção básica; Poder; Cuidado em saúde; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA

Brazil s Basic Health care policy, that has been revitalized by the Ministry of Health, has elected Family Health as its strategic priority. Grounded in the work of a multidisciplinary team, with firm commitments and co-responsibility in family care, the aim of strategy is to reformulates the prevailing healthcare model. This means going beyond the traditional institutionalized assistance that prioritizes tutelage, towards establishing a kind of care that is able to generate individual autonomy. The Community Health Agent, the so called Agentes Comunitários de Saúde (ACS) who is part of this team, is the person often from a poor background - who acts as facilitator of the interlocution between scientific and popular knowledge. Endowed with transformational power, his functions of educator and promoter of health give him the wherewithal power, to disseminate the emancipatory knowledge that promotes autonomy and can deconstruct the asymmetries of power besides, through his health supervision attributions dispensing care as something essentially human. However, the identity of this new health professional is constructed in a specific reality determined by the norms and rules instituted in the organization of health services, in addition to the relations established between health workers and a broad array of social groups. This dissertation consists of a case-study of the way the Manguinhos s ACS (Rio de Janeiro)Health Teams contribute to healthcare: in this work, emancipator care promotes the deconstruction of inequalities. It is a qualitative study that obtained its content analysis material through the focal group technique. using the analytical category of the caring agent we identified the following empirical categories: the caring agent has to be patient , the agent feels excluded ; the agent is the owner of the door key . Analyzing the material, we were able to observe that the Manguinhos agents adopt the patience of knowing how to listen as a light technological tool in their relational suitcases, which enables them to act in a caring way, together with a persevering patience that is used when facing the many difficulties revealed by them. Also in the sphere of relational dynamics, we observed that ACSs alternate feelings of exclusion and inclusion in determined social groups. However, in our view, the feeling of exclusion is increased by the social stigmatization they suffer as residents of communities that are submitted to all kinds if violence. As facilitators of the entry of users to the health system, we observed a monopoly of health assistance that does not contribute to transformations of the production of healthcare and that does not contribute to transformations of the production of healthcare and that can be verified in the characteristic tensions of actions of the power-help kind, revealing on e of the mechanisms used by the ACSs to establish their socio-occupational identity. We believe that, although this dissertation is a case-study, it is possible establish analogies with the FHTs (Family Health Teams) the so called Equipes de Saúde da Família (ESF) of Brazil s major cities. Thus only a technical training of ACSs based on the problematization of the themes analyzed in this study will enable them to go beyond actions that merely maintain power asymmetries. Methodologies that reinforce the social position of at ACSs the lowest level of the division of health service labor hierarchy must be abandoned . Only in this way will it be possible to prevent the capture of b ACSs y institutionalized hegemonic powers. Then, and only then, willit be possible to transmit knowledge that emancipates, constructs autonomies and mitigates inequalities, thus enabling utopia to become a reality.