Trabalho em saúde: a inserção do assistente social na atenção primária à saúde em Juiz de Fora/MG

Abstract

This study focus on the role of the Social worker in Primary Assistance Health in Juiz de Fora - Minas Gerais concerning to: its organization, development, objective and used tools, the main object and work conditions. The study understands that the work in Health is located in the area of services and it relays on the relationship between worker/customer. Furthermore in Primary Health attendance, the Social Work is the front door of the Health Services and a strategy to the organization for Health System. The Social Workers include themselves in Health by acting on the social determinants that involves the health-illness process, and aims to achieve customers needs. It was used a qualitative approach and a dialectical critical methodology. The survey has been done with 9(nine) Social workers in Traditional Basic Health Units, dealing with Family Health Program and the Residence Formation in Social Service of Juiz de Fora Municipality. The results have shown that workers in Social Area deal with a lively field due to be in a direct relationship with customers. The main point of their work is to be able to work in multidisciplinary teams, the contact with customer and carry on Health Educational Projects. In spite of the challenges presented by the neo-liberal economy (which is adverse to the consolidation and expansion of social rights), Social Workers face the daily challenge to search for viable and creative alternatives, seeking out actual possibilities and strengthening the democratic character of public health care services. This presentation aims to have a reflection over the Social Workers in Primary Health in Juiz de Fora as well as to increase the discussions about the Social Service in Health Area.