Políticas de Saúde e Jovens Infratores: uma análise de narrativas.

Abstract

The aim of the study was to analyze the responses submitted by the State for the health of youth in rehabilitation centers in the deprivation of liberty from documents originating from the governmental sphere, social movements and academic productions. Specifically, we were wanted to identify the actors that voice the demands of young in conflict with the law health, understand the concept of health expressed in health policies, discuss the perspective about the phenomenon of youth in conflict with the law health and finally, problematize the priorities chosen by health policy and the mechanisms that led to its adoption. We used the methodology of narrative policy analysis that makes possible the understanding changes, such method proposes that stories have beginnings, middles, and ends, as in scenarios; they are employed by actors in order to act under conditions of uncertainty, conflict and complexity. Through documentary analysis we have identified the main characters and three narratives, each of them with different perspectives and understandings. The narratives are the following: (1) The potentially dangerous youth: the referential of violence, (2) The youth in conflict with the law: Human rights referential, (3) The Delinquent Youth: Mental health referential. We observed that the hegemonic narrative was associated with the human rights referential talking with founding milestones of Brazilian democracy as the 1988 constitution, the Child and Adolescent Statute (ECA) and Health system (SUS) guidelines. In addition, it was pointed to the endogenous character in the formulation of the policy, without the strong presence of social movements and civil society. Finally, he wondered about stigmas and prejudices that hinder the recognition of young people as citizens of rights.