Humanização e política de saúde: um estudo sobre os usos e sentido das propostas de humanização nas políticas de atenção à saúde da mulher

Abstract

The term humanization is frequently employed to refer to health practices within the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS), and this idea is defended whenever one thinks about public health policies. This polysemous word emphasizes the possibility of its being employed in different contexts, addressed to different publics. This work aims to analyze uses and senses of the notion of humanization in actions proposals concerned with women s health. The history of practices and knowledge on women s health, focusing on the feminist movement, on family planning and on the constitution of the Women s Integral Healthcare Program, has been recovered so as to contextualize this discussion. Several health actions proposals have been analyzed, as well as the projects selectes by the David Capistrano Prize for National Humanizations Politics to identify central meanings in the official discourse on humanization, and how such discourses is being apprehended by health workers. Four nucleus of senses have been identified and discussed: humanizations as attribute of inter personal relations; humanization and reduction of maternal mortality; humanizations and resources optimization; and humanization and labor organization processes. We came to the conclusion that the processes of formulation and implantation of actions in a vertical and fragmented way, without making a pact with the professionals supposed to implemented changes, nor with the users who would benefit from them, ands up in perpetuating the present healthcare model.