Title |
Domestic violence against women, public policies and community health workers in Brazilian Primary Health Care
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Published in |
Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, January 2018
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DOI | 10.1590/1413-81232018231.16562015 |
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Authors |
Marcos Claudio Signorelli, Angela Taft, Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira |
Abstract |
Domestic violence creates multiple harms for women's health and is a 'wicked problem' for health professionals and public health systems. Brazil recently approved public policies to manage and care for women victims of domestic violence. Facing these policies, this study aimed to explore how domestic violence against women is usually managed in Brazilian primary health care, by investigating a basic health unit and its family health strategy. We adopted qualitative ethnographic research methods with thematic analysis of emergent categories, interrogating data with gender theory and emergent Brazilian collective health theory. Field research was conducted in a local basic health unit and the territory for which it is responsible, in Southern Brazil. The study revealed: 1) a yawning gap between public health policies for domestic violence against women at the federal level and its practical application at local/decentralized levels, which can leave both professionals and women unsafe; 2) the key role of local community health workers, paraprofessional health promotion agents, who aim to promote dialogue between women experiencing violence, health care professionals and the health care system. |
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Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Unknown | 39 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Bachelor | 5 | 13% |
Student > Master | 3 | 8% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 5% |
Professor | 2 | 5% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 2 | 5% |
Other | 4 | 10% |
Unknown | 21 | 54% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Social Sciences | 5 | 13% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 13% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 10% |
Psychology | 1 | 3% |
Arts and Humanities | 1 | 3% |
Other | 1 | 3% |
Unknown | 22 | 56% |