Abstract

DE LARA, Lutiane; GUARESCHI, Neuza Maria de Fátima  and  HUNING, Simone Maria. Child Health: production of a citizen-subject. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2012, vol.12, n.2, pp. 395-415. ISSN 1808-4281.

This paper aims to discuss the practices on child health in Brazilian National Health System (SUS) considering the document entitled "Child Health Card: a passport to citizenship", which proposes integral attention to the health of that population. Understanding health as a bio-political strategy, from a Foucauldian theoretical perspective, we intend to think about this proposal of health care as something that aims at investing in life for the production of a citizen-subject. We attempt to show that health care goes beyond health promotion, pointing towards a strategy of production of a citizen-subject as a subject of rights.

Keywords : child health; SUS; bio-politics; subject of rights.

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