Banca de DEFESA: LUCAS ALVES GONTIJO

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : LUCAS ALVES GONTIJO
DATE: 28/04/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência
TITLE:

ATTENTION TO HOMELESS PEOPLE IN MUNICIPALITIES WITHOUT STREET OFFICE: FROM ACCESS TO ADDRESSING INIQUITIES

KEY WORDS:

People in Street Situation; Primary Health Care; access to Health services; Equity in Health; Vulnerable Populations; Health Personnel; Straight to Health; Prejudice; Reception; Patient-Centered Care.

PAGES: 190
BIG AREA: Ciências da Saúde
AREA: Enfermagem
SUMMARY:

Introduction: the guarantee of access, attention and health care for people in homelessness is an emerging challenge in the field of public health, being essential to overcome vulnerabilities and identify the factors that corroborate for institutional exclusion, in order to strengthen and ensure the effectiveness of public policies aimed at homeless people. In this perspective, in order to provide access universal, integral and equitable, in 2011, the revision of the National Policy for Care Basic, which determined the creation and operation of the Street Consultancy Team, which works with strategic potential for articulating and providing comprehensive health care to these people. Thus, places that do not have such a team, these people need to be assisted by the Primary Health Care teams in the area where they are concentrated, with a view to guarantee universal access, an attentive look at their needs and unique care. Objective: understand access and equity in health care for homeless people in municipalities medium and large population in the center-west of Minas Gerais. Methods: for design of this study was used the qualitative approach conducted by the Theory Grounded in Data and Symbolic Interactionism. The scenario of this study is constituted by two municipalities in the center-west of the state of Minas Gerais, medium-sized Nova Serrana population and large population Divinópolis, which still do not have Street Office. The participants of the research were the professionals of Primary Care to Health/Family Health Strategy in both municipalities. The sources of evidence were individual interview and recording in memos. Data collection has already been completed in the municipality of Nova Serrana and started in the municipality of Divinópolis. So far, they have participated in the study 16 health professionals from Nova Serrana, who make up four teams of Primary Health Care/Family Health Strategy and three key informants who are professionals of the Specialized Service for Homeless People. Results: the results preliminaries check 31 codes in vivo. Completion of data collection and analysis is expected to October 2022. Preliminary results show that health care for people in a street situation in the municipality of Nova Serrana is carried out by reference teams of the Primary Health/Family Health Strategy, as well as intersectoral actions together with the Street Population Assistance Center (POP Center). There is mention of institutional exclusion and prejudice, determining factors for restricting access to homeless people to the health system; declare the difficulty of building strategies to care for these people, so most care actions are by spontaneous demand, although there is an intention to plan for improvements in care of these people. It is evident that it is necessary to discuss about equity in health. Considerations conclusions: Primary Health Care becomes indispensable in overcoming inequities in health, as it enables the attention and care of vulnerable groups such as people in street situation. It is noted that, even with sectoral and intersectoral policies, these people still face barriers in accessing health care and other fundamental rights.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - DANIELA PRISCILA OLIVEIRA DO VALE TAFNER
Externo à Instituição - MARCELO PEDRA MARTINS MACHADO
Presidente - 1627034 - SELMA MARIA DA FONSECA VIEGAS