Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Denize Cristina de; GOMES, Antonio Marcos Tosoli; SA, Celso Pereira de  and  ACIOLI, Sonia. Public health police and the symbolic constitution of the unique health system: social-professional representations. Psicol. teor. prat. [online]. 2007, vol.9, n.2, pp. 26-46. ISSN 1516-3687.

This paper aims to analyze the concepts and images constructed by health professionals regarding the Brazilian health public policy (SUS). They were studied hundred professionals which worked in five public health institutions in Rio de Janeiro. The contents of semi-structured interviews were submitted to the crossing technique of lexical analysis provided by ALCESTE 4.7 software. Results evidenced the following definitions associated to the SUS: a normative and ruling organ law for health actions; an advanced model of health care; a health security plan for facilitate access to health services; an integrated health system to assist the population; an unique and equalitarian system of health care; a citizen’s right and a state’s duty; a system that does not generate the products that it should. The concepts associated to the SUS involve both objective knowledge and subjective constructions by the professionals’ group. Nevertheless, its understanding and definition by the social subjects does not follow the same unity that is present in its philosophical proposal.

Keywords : SUS; Social representations; Concepts; Public health policy; Health professionals.

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