Políticas no cuidado: uma cartografia de políticas de cuidado em três unidades de saúde da atenção básica

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Andre [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: https://www2.unifesp.br/centros/cedess/mestrado/baixada_santista_teses/031_bx_dissertacao_andrerodrigues.pdf; https://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/47579
• topic: Policies; Health care; Basic assistence; Política; Cuidado em saúde; Atenção básica

The term care is used in a myriad of situations and in most of its uses seems to be understood as an act that always works favorably. It is common too, to find this term used vaguely, as if just speaking it made some unambiguous and major meaning come about. However, after looking back to a brief history of this term, we noticed that it has undergone significant variation over time, since it is always connected to multiple policies at play in each period. To care, as a way to call a specific type of relating, must be understood as something able to operate for good, for evil and beyond good and evil, and as something about which is actually impossible to know beforehand, and for sure, what effects will have. In this research we noticed that the statements above have strong resonances with the practices of health professionals. In this work I have relied on the idea that the care provided by health professionals is imbibed in a multiplicity of policies. Supported by the studies about power in Foucault and by the Deleuze-Guattarian claim that before Being there is politics the care is conceived as a praxis that updates policies and is run trough by subjectivation policies present on each historical moment. Therefore, the objectives of our investigations were to detect policies that constitute the care production of health professionals at Primary Care Centers. The study was qualitative and done on a cartographic perspective, which is appropriate to detect such processes. Data were produced as part of the research Primary Care and Network Care Production in Santos City, regarding eleven Care Centers, developed by the Laboratory of Studies and Research on Teaching and Working in Health Care (LEPETS), from the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP). In the present research, data from three of those Centers were analyzed, specifically, data produced with the author's involvement. Two main themes surfaced from the analysis of the body of work. The first one, named method-care, points to the crossed implications between care policies and research policies built along the investigation. The second one, Ways of Caring, presents and problematizes several care policies mapped throughout the investigation.Results showed that the notion of care is not given beforehand as something established a priori, and also, that there are constitutive relationships between caring and researching, pointing to an ethic and political dimension that arises between these practices.