Ethics and professional work: perception of Community Health Agents

• Autor(a) principal: Garbin, Artênio José Ísper
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Garbin, Cléa Adas Saliba, Moimaz, Suzely Adas Saliba, Diniz, Diego Garcia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Saúde, Ética & Justiça (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/sej/article/view/45780
• topic: Community health services/manpower; Community health services/ethics; Ethics; professional; Professional practice/ethics; Family Health.; Serviços de saúde comunitária/recursos humanos; Serviços de saúde comunitária/ética; Ética profissional; Prática profissional/ética; Saúde da família.

The perceptions of the Community Health Agent (CHA) referred to ethics in their work have been evaluated in this study. A questionnaire with social and ethical issues was applied in 61 ACS. 90% reported having received information about ethics, and "training courses" was the most cited source (68.9%). On a scale from 1 (least) to 5 (maximum), 67% claimed to have knowledge about ethics among 4 or 5 and 88.5% reported that this topic has an importance of 5 in their work. Ethical conflicts exposed had an average of 75% of respondents in agreement with the reference sources, and the two items involving "information privacy" showed the greatest disagreement. Ethics was considered important by the professional performance of subjects who had a good perception about the issue; however the topic about privacy of information generated controversy.