Programa Bolsa Família e as Condicionalidades de Saúde: percepções de beneficiários do município do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This dissertation has as objective to study the policy of Brazilian poverty - the Family Grant Program - and adopts a strategy for a discussion of the topic qualitative approach. PBF is a policy of conditional cash transfer that falls on the international scene in a moment of expansion of the use of minimum income, and national context, the move to recast policies to combat poverty in Brazil. The main characteristics of the policy to emphasize the unification of previous programs, targeting in principle, the national coverage, and counterparts to access basic social rights. The objective is to critically discuss the Family Grant Program of the Federal Government, seeking to identify some of the possibilities and contradictions in it, through the perceptions of beneficiaries who attend health units in Rio de Janeiro, on the PBF and its conditionalities in the health sector. To this end, we carried out semi-structured interviews with beneficiaries, as well as participant observation at health units to build the research material. The two main axes of analysis revolved around the social representations of those interviewed on the program itself and its conditionalities health. Raise such categories theoretical / analytical work for the research material: the contradiction, the consensus and social representations. Already from the analysis of the material, listed as categories of content to "help" as a dimension of benefit, the organization of health services and the relationship built with the conditionalities. It was noticed on several elements of the program that one of the weak points of this policy is the implementation of planned structure dimension for it. Is identified that we must restructure building models of the proposals if the provision of policies of a structuring is broader purpose of this policy transfer income.