Política pública de saúde: SUS como espaço sócio ocupacional de assistentes sociais

Abstract

This Undergraduate Thesis aims to discuss health policy in Brazil to address the key question of this study: how does health, as a public policy, manifest in a socio-occupational space for the social worker. Specific objectives include presenting social policy and socio-occupational spaces for the social worker's engagement, identifying the challenges and possibilities of the social worker's role in health policy, and exploring their work within the Unified Health System (SUS). The proposed methodology involves referencing authors on the topics covered in this work, using books from the basic library of Social Work, and other complementary articles to achieve the stated objectives. Through this bibliographic research, we dedicate the first chapter to presenting the context and objectives of the creation and function of social policies, the Sanitary Reform movement, and SUS as a public health policy. In the second chapter, we delve into the socio-occupational space of the social worker, the intersection of Social Work and Health, and SUS as an area of practice for the social worker. We conclude this study by highlighting the complexity of the social worker's role, the challenges faced by social/public policies, and their limited resources. These actions directly impact the social worker's work and the users. As SUS faces deterioration with affected services, primarily impacting the most vulnerable population, we emphasize that defending SUS is everyone's duty.