A atuação dos/as assistentes sociais em face da precarização da política de saúde no Hospital Regional de Sousa (HRS).

Abstract

This Course Conclusion Paper deals with the role of social workers in the face of the precariousness of health policy in the Regional Hospital of Sousa (RHS). It exposes the historical trajectory of health policy, and discusses the professional work of the social worker in the same, besides analyzing this action against a context of precariousness of the politics debated. Thus, the general objective of the study was to analyze the limits and challenges of the professional performance of social workers in the context of precarious health policy in the Regional Hospital of Sousa / PB, and specifically to discuss health policy, emphasizing their peculiarities in the contemporary scenario; understand the perception of the social workers of HRS about the refusals of precariousness in the work of these professionals;discussing the insertion of Social Service in the area of health ; and to uncover the challenges faced by social workers in HRS. The research was guided by the critical-dialectical method, contemplating the bibliographical and field research. In addition, it qualifies as an exploratory study with a qualitative approach, whose instrument of data collection was a questionnaire with open and closed questions applied to Social Welfare professionals of the aforementioned hospital. The results of the analysis showed that the health policy in Brazil has not yet developed satisfactorily, since there are many difficulties that surround it, which directly implies the performance of the Social Worker, who ends up receiving requests that are beyond his / her competencies and attributions. Faced with this, it is necessary that social service professionals strive for actions that ensure the right to access to public health more just, universal, and integral. The study has its relevance, as it will contribute to reflections on the subject in a context of intense precarization of health policy.