Abstract

BARROS, Ana Carolina Florence de  and  BERNARDO, Marcia Hespanhol. Neoliberal logic in public health and its repercussions for CPA'S worker's mental health. Rev. Psicol. UNESP [online]. 2017, vol.16, n.1, pp. 60-74. ISSN 1984-9044.

The present article results of a research investigating how the current neoliberal logic has been absorbed by Public Health and its repercussions to workers's mental health. For such, qualitative methodology was chosen and reflexive interviews were conducted with professionals working in different health services in the state of Sao Paulo. This paper discusses results of a specific type of health service - the CPA - designed to replace the psychiatric hospital in the care of mental health patients within the Public Health System. For such, two interviews were used to produce the data. The interviewed subjects revealed that work precarity in CPAs can be identified in several aspects: multiple work contracts, number of worked hours, insufficient equipments for large territorial extensions, inferior number of workers considered necessary. The combination of these elements produces suffering which adds to that deriving from the care of mental health patients. The interviews indicate that such work precarity is viewed by workers in a fatalist way, as an inevitable situation, although they demonstrate understanding the possible changes in current scenario.

Keywords : work; mental health; mental weardown; CAPS.

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