Body, culture and sexuality: representations and practice of women on the examination of preventive cervical cancer papanicolau

• Grant number: 12/17472-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Effective date (Start): January 04, 2013
• Effective date (End): February 24, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Collective Health - Public Health
• Principal Investigator: Edemilson Antunes de Campos
• Grantee: Edemilson Antunes de Campos
• Host Investigator: Sylvie Fainzang
• Host Institution: Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (EACH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Research place: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France

Abstract

The objective of this research is to understand the representations and practices of women about Pap cervical cancer through the analysis of social and cultural codes that operate in the health-illness. It is to understand the logic that guides practices in relation to women Pap smears and, thereby, analyze its consequences in preventing cervical cancer. This project will be accomplished through local ethnographies and semi-structured interviews with women and reproductive age 25-59 years living Keralux Garden, located in the East Zone of São Paulo. This is on the assumption that health and disease are symbolically constructed realities both physical and organic as coordinated by social relations and cultural, within which women experience their sexual and reproductive lives. Our hypothesis is that the representations built on Pap Pap guide the practices of women regarding prevention of cervical cancer, within a logic governed by social codes and cultural that operates in the disease process. The aim is to contribute to enrich the existing repertoire of representations and practices developed around the preventive screening of cervical-uterine cancer, aiming at the establishment of public health policies that address the socio-cultural aspects that operate in the disease process. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

EDEMILSON ANTUNES DE CAMPOS. Os sentidos do Papanicolaou para um grupo de mulheres que realizou a prevenção do câncer cervical. Cad. saúde colet., v. 26, n. 2, p. 140-145, 2018-07-10. (11/08356-3, 12/17472-0)

. Os sentidos do Papanicolaou para um grupo de mulheres que realizou a prevenção do câncer cervical. Cad. saúde colet., n. ahead, p. -, 2018. (11/08356-3, 12/17472-0)