Tesis
Representações sociais sobre saúde e meio ambiente de equipes da estratégia saúde da família
Fecha
2017-02-02Autor
Dias, Gisele Loise
Institución
Resumen
Nowadays, it is known that the issues involving health have a relation with
several determinants. Among them, the environment is present, because it is
where life develops. Therefore, the relation health and environment is an
important aspect to be considered in the practices of workers of the Family
Health Strategy (FHS) teams. In view of this, we have the following research
question: how are health and the environment constituted in the social
representation of Family Health Strategy teams? The objective of the study is to
know the social representations (SR) about health and environment of
employees of the FHS teams and to identify the relationship between the SR of
health and the environment and their actions in the daily work. To reach the
objectives listed, we chose the qualitative method, based on the methodological
theoretical framework of social representations. The study was developed in a
municipality located in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul. The participants of the
study were 25 workers from different professional categories, working in the
FHS teams of the municipality studied. Data collection took place between
February and June 2016, through documentary research and semi-structured
interviews. The data were analyzed through content analysis in the thematic
modality, evidencing the central nucleus and the peripheral elements that
structure the social representations. The study complied with all the ethical and
legal determinations set forth in Resolution 466 of December 2012 of the
National Health Council. It was approved by the Research Ethics Committee
under No. 1,380,372, and obtained the Certificate of Ethical Assessment (CEA)
of Number: 51719215.9.0000.5346. From the analysis process the following SR
was outlined: The salubrity of the territory, which is the central category of the
study. The peripheral elements associated with it are: water, sewage, urban
solid waste, pesticides and air pollution. In this perspective, the health territory
assumed the centrality of the SR, since it is from this that the other elements
that make up the SR were delineated and outsourced by the participants. From
this representation it can be inferred that the understanding of the relationship
health and environment is intrinsically related to the damages that the
environment can cause in health, which materializes as a relation of cause and
effect.