Percepções dos homens frente as ações de saúde ofertadas pela atenção básica.

Abstract

The practice of care directed to the male population in the contingent of Basic Attention, is abstracted from prospects that confront challenges and that are related to the current masculine hegemony, the culture, the historical factor and the social stigma; Thus impacting on the construction of professional actions aimed at men, in their presence in the health scenario and how they comprise the said health segment. Imbued with this subversion, the study sought to investigate through discursive dialogues, the understanding that men measure about the health actions promoted by Basic Attention and that focuses on this population exponent. This is a descriptive study based on the qualitative approach, developed with male users of a Family Health Team of the Primary Care of the city of Cajazeiras, Paraíba. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed before the premises of the discourse analysis. The research began, after the approval of the project by the Research Ethics Committee under opinion nº 1.844.255. Through an understanding of the conditions of production of the elucidated discourses, it is possible to see that this scenario of attention incurs, in the male construct, as an environment of demand for health care, a place to confront the disease and obtain cure through professional action. The lack of knowledge of the structural principles of disease prevention and health promotion that interrupt this service is encouraged. It is also understood that emotional explanations that permeate the healthy condition and the demarcation of an empty list of professional involvement, consolidating the distance of this population from the health care setting. There are nuances of the biomedical model as a preponderant element in the discourses, acting as an alibi in determining the demand of this segment for Basic Attention. The socio-historical preponderance of male hegemony is analyzed, which directly interferes with the perception of health care and the incorporation of the identity of being a man in the face of illness. In this attempt, it is suggested the use of strategies in the conduct of actions that reveal the invisibility masculinity in the service, valorization of its singularity, subjectivity and its health emergency.