“Homens não são de aço”: homicídio e políticas públicas sociais para o enfrentamento desse agravo em saúde na cidade de Volta Redonda/RJ

Abstract

In this work we conducted a research on male homicide victims, through analysis of data collected from the Epidemiology Sector of the Health Department of Volta Redonda/RJ, which allowed the identification of a social Picture of these individuals, who presented the profile of the man murdered in Volta Redonda: young, black, with low schooling, living in the peripheries and assaulted by PAF (killed by the lethal use offire arms: pistol, rifle). The presence of social, economic, cultural and educational factors in the formation of being a man who potentiates health problems – homicide: poverty, marginalization, unemployment, machismo, violence, racism, educational lack, poor accessibility to social public policies. We point out how the corporate model based on the capitalist system increases the precariousity of working condition sand survival of man; the coercive interference of the State in the expressions of the social issue identifying the proletariat / the poor as dangerous for social interaction; the need for accessibility and universalization of public health, education and social assistance policies in dealing with the needs of meeting the demands presented by men, and finally, the importance of Social Work in professional intervention on this current situation.