Direitos à Saúde: um estudo sobre as práticas dos assistentes sociais das unidades de saúde de Sorocaba SP 2006

Abstract

The present dissertation has for objective the study of the social workers' practices in the Units of Municipal Services of Health of Sorocaba State of São Paulo and its contribution in the guarantee of the rights to health. This object of the research had for context the perspective Brazilian socio-historical, focusing the relationships among the Social Service, the Health and the Social Rights. The methodology included the bibliographical research about the central themes of the study, which are, Social Service, Health, Social Rights and Citizenship; more a documental research (laws, plans etc.), and the research of field with quantitative and qualitative character. It was used as methodological procedures, questionnaire and interviews semi-structured. The analysis of data was based in three nuclei: nucleus of conceptions, nucleus of guarantee of right and nucleus of limits and possibilities. For the nucleus of guarantee of right, three axles of insertion were used: actions of character of emergency; education and information in health; mobilization of the community and planning and assessorship. The results were obtained evidenced that the social workers know the rights to the health and try to execute them in their practices, with prominence to the rights the information. The results denoted still, fragility in the warranty of the rights the health, front the fragmented characteristics, punctual and focused in the social workers' practices, with emphasis in the individual actions due to internal and external factors. Those practices demand a collective commitment and shared among the many professionals that work with SUS (Unique System of Health) and the users of the services, making possible, like this, conditions to contribute in the construction, enlargement and warranty of the rights to the health, to the citizenship