População em situação de rua; Saúde mental,assistência social e filantropia na cidade de Sousa-PB, durante a pandemia de covid-19.

Abstract

The objective of this work is to carry out a sociopolitical analysis of the population in the street in the city of Sousa – PB, concerning health and mental health conditions. Soon, I have been looking for theoretical and practical reflections throughout my work regarding the mental health care model and the psychiatric reform movement in Brazil. In addition, the work seeking to correspond to the proposed objectives and considering the questions in which the population in the street situation is inserted tried to understand the limits of Social Assistance for this population, well as, the performance of a Misericord House together These people are located on the street in the city of Sousa – PB. Regarding the methodological aspects, the research is characterized by its qualitative and explanatory approach, has a social

nature and issues such as techniques and procedures for observation, the use of semi- structured interviews and a bibliographic review. Aiming at reaching the objectives within

these proposals, we conducted interviews with the application of questionnaires with Social Assistants from the city of Sousa and volunteers from Misericord House. Not that it refers to the theoretical contribution, but the data are analyzed from the historical-dialectical method of Marx.