Representações sociais da população que utiliza o serviço público de saúde sobre a saúde da população negra

Abstract

Public health in Brazil has been redrawn in recent years, towards a conception of health combined with the principles of universality, equality and equity from the Law 8080 which decides on the organization of the Unified Health System. In the same year of approval of the law SUS, comes to 8.142 complementing the previous law and inserting the idea of a health project with participation People and Community, creating Councils and health Fund, as well as the Conference on health that would shape deliberative and democratic space. The National Policy on Comprehensive Health of the Black Population PNSIPN presents directly related to the racial question, which for centuries has been bypassing our country, specifically putting this population in underprivileged conditions, which should be on the agenda in public health services, it has the intention to promote transversal actions in health, to further facilitate equity in care. This theme has been gaining body in recent years from various surveys, as Oliveira (2003), whose data corroborate the vulnerability of this population situation. It is therefore from this theme we conducted our research, whose objective was to investigate the social representations of users of the public health system on the health of the black population. In order to contextualize this study, we made an attempt to go through the facts and constructs that led to PNSIPN, considering a brief overview of the historical construction of the place of blacks in Brazilian society and using some official documents of institutions such as Ministry of Health, Institute of research and Applied Statistics (IPEA) and even the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), as well as works by some (the) scholars (the) racial issues in Brazil. The theoretical scope that supports this work is the Theory of Social Representations, studying Moscovici, Jodelet, Sá and Abric, among others. specifically we use the structural approach (Abric, 2001), also known as Central Nucleus Theory. The field research took place with 80 users of the public health system in Rio de Janeiro, residents of Forest Community Toolbar and randomly chosen. We adopted a qualitative methodology using a semi structured questionnaire plus a free recall task (Abric, 1994). For the analysis of survey questions, we conducted a content analysis proposed by Bardin (2006), and the data collected from the free association underwent a prototypical analysis (Vergès, 1992), with the help of the EVOC software. The main results found demonstrate the ignorance of users in relation to the National full Black Population Health Policy, while pointing out the term DISREGARD as the possible core of representations related to the health of the black population.