Abstract

MELO, Rosa Maria de Souza Barbosa de; MORAIS, Giovana Barbosa; MORAIS, Jullyana Barbosa  and  LEITE, Silvana Nair. Conception of the right to health of mid-level technical professionals of the mid-level of the Unified Health System in Brazil. J. Hum. Growth Dev. [online]. 2018, vol.28, n.1, pp. 95-104. ISSN 0104-1282.  http://dx.doi.org/10.7322/jhgd.143886.

INTRODUCTION: The right to health, one of the achievements guaranteed by the Citizen Constitution promulgated in 1988, came in response to the citizens' struggle for health reform in 1986. The guarantee of this right is established in the Unified Health System. OBJECTIVE: To analyze the conception of the right to health of middle level proffesionals of Unified Health System. METHODS: Qualitative approach research, through 2 focus groups involving 9 graduates of a Health Technical School of the SUS in the north of Brazil, from the courses of clinical analysis, dental hygiene and nursing, working in the Unified Health System. RESULTS: Three categories show the results obtained concluding concepts of health, the right to health and health conceptions; Health practices and access to care; and topics of training, health care and humanization. CONCLUSION: The participants of this study have a conception of the right to health directed to the legislation, their concepts of health approach elements of Unified Health System policy, among others, promotion, prevention, humanization; their conceptions of health are strongly focused on the biomedical model centered on disease and medicine.

Keywords : health to rigth; unified health system; professional qualification; curriculum; healtcare personnel.

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