Registration of the activity of community health agents during the pandemic
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Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Vitória-ES, Brasil Programa de Pós Graduação em Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitoria-ES, Brasil "Direção do CCS - Prédio do Centro de Ciências da Saúde Av. Mal. Campos, 1468 - Maruípe, Vitória-ES, Brazil. CEP: 29047-105 Telefone: (+55 021 27) 3335-7201
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Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Vitória-ES, Brasil
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Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Vitória-ES, Brasil Programa de Pós Graduação em Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitoria-ES, Brasil Direção do CCS - Prédio do Centro de Ciências da Saúde Av. Mal. Campos, 1468 - Maruípe, Vitoria-ES, Brazil. CEP: 29047-105 Telefone: (+55 021 27) 3335-7201 Brazil
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Universidade Federal do Espirito Santos, Vitória-ES, Brasil Direção do CCS - Prédio do Centro de Ciências da Saúde Dherik Av. Mal. Campos, 1468 - Maruípe, Vitoria-ES, Brazil. CEP: 29047-105 Telefone: (+55 021 27) 3335-7201 Brazil
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Universidade Federal do Catalão, Catalão-GO, Brasil Departamento de Medicina da Universidade Federal do Catalão, Catalão-GO, Brasil., Brasil. Avenida Doutor Lamartine Pinto de Avelar, 1120, loteamento Vila Chaud, Catalão/GO CEP: 75704-020 Brazil
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Universidade Federal do Espirito Santos, Vitória-ES, Brasil Programa de Pós Graduação em Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitoria-ES, Brasil Direção do CCS - Prédio do Centro de Ciências da Saúde Av. Mal. Campos, 1468 - Maruípe, Vitoria-ES, Brazil. CEP: 29047-105 Telefone: (+55 021 27) 3335-7201 Brazil
Publication date: 2023-04-26
Popul. Med. 2023;5(Supplement):A536
ABSTRACT
Introduction:
This study gives insight to work processes in health. It presents letters, chronicles and writings about the activity of community health agents (CHA) who, in their field, have strengths, desires and aspirations. The study was based on Yves Clots clinic of activity and used Michel Foucaults theory of ethics of self-care. Thus, this study proposes a correlation of the clinic of activity, by Yves Clot, and Registration, by Conceição Evaristo, in the construction of narratives and writings of the agents daily work, in a self-confrontation of the activity as a living triad.
Objective:
To analyze the daily encounters of Primary Care in the city of Vitória, ES, during the COVID-19 pandemic, from the perspective of community health agents.
Methods:
Focus groups, Interviews and Participant observations were carried out, subdivided into 3 stages, which culminated in the preparation, sharing and self-confrontation of letters/chronicles.
Results:
Writings from a perspective of self, work and the collective constitute directions for analysis and construction of a policy of resistance and (re)existence of health workers, in a context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study focused on the pandemic as an analyzer of relationships, public policies, the intensification and precariousness of working with health. The results show limitations to both have and execute activities, overloads and uncertainties, differences in womens work and their intersections, but they also show, mainly, ways to escape and deviate, in other words resistances and (re)existences of making history and caring for women agents in health communities.
Conclusion:
When experimenting with writing about experiences, in a pandemic context, the CHAs self-confront and characterize the work for community health agents, as a form of reinventing work and health production, led by the (re)flourishing of those who take part in this practice.