Em nome da promoção à saúde : análise das ações de macrorregião do município de Vitória-ES

• Autor(a) principal: Iglesias, Alexandra
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/5691
• topic: Health promotion; Family Health Strategy; Promoção da saúde; Família - Saúde e higiene; Promoção à saúde; Estratégia de Saúde da Família; Saúde Coletiva; 614

This research proposes to describe which ones of the actions classified as Health Promotion are developed in the Health Unities circumscribed in Maruípe area, in the city of Vitória-ES, to verify the conceptions used as it s base and the difficulties to it s accomplishment. This research also develops an analysis of the activities made in the name of Health Promotion, specifically at one Health Unity of that area, and examines, specifically, the relations established between users and professionals who conduct the actions. It presents a valuation of the moments where the practices of Health Promotion reaches the potencialization of the subject s autonomy and points those moments that contributes to the experts knowledge domination, denying the word to others, slighting their knowledges or disqualifying the user s way of life. There are several conceptions of Health Promotion, and they include such the activities pointed to the modifications of the individual behavior, focused on the life style changes, as well as the activities directed to the collectivity and physical, social, political, economical and cultural environment, showing the relevance to consider, during the work s routine, how these activities happen. To accomplish the goals, individual interviews were made to five health professionals, with the use of semistructured scripts, and two group interviews with users of the actions. The field work happened during the work s routine, from July to October 2008, resulting in nearly 130 hours of specific activities observations. six different kinds of actions classified as Health Promotion were analyzed: Atividade Física (physical activity), Grupo Futuro do Amanhã: corpo em movimento (Tomorrow s Future: body in movement Group), Fitoterapia (Fitoterapy), Bolsa Família (Family Stipend), Ação Anti-Tabagismo (anti-tobacco action) and HIPERDIA (actions against arterial hypertension and diabetes mellitus). It concludes for the existence of similarities between what is considered Disease Prevention actions and those actions known as Health Promotion. It values the virtual presence of the construction of collective spaces of exchange, which contributes to edify other ways of being in the world, and to fortify fights for a better life and health conditions. There are big efforts by professionals to the realization of Health Promotion collective actions, although there are several difficulties and obstacles, which causes the frequent absence of users or the existence of purposeless actions, not only from those who organizes it, but also from those who participates. It brings to attention the considerable verticalization of the choices of which actions will be made by the Health Unity, since the priorities are elected by the Health Ministry and Municipal Secretary s power of induction, which creates actions with no planning or valuation by the involved professionals. The relationship between users and professionals are predominantly verticalized, with little space to the user s speech and to the exchanges between them. It valorizes orientations and prescriptions of behaviors classified as healthier, and insists on the need of changing one s life styles, no matter the constant resistance by the users, such as not going to meetings, or asseverating that, in the end, they make their own way .