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| Author(s): |
Mariana Vercesi de Albuquerque
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2006-08-18 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria Adélia Aparecida de Souza;
Nelson Ibañez;
Maria Laura Silveira
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| Advisor: | Maria Adélia Aparecida de Souza |
| Abstract | |
The greater complexity of today\'s world brought new challenges to the geographic and public health methodologies, as well as to the relationship between these methodologies theoretical instrumental, technical and empiric. The proposal of this work is to think health starting from the notions of wellbeing and territory use before the world as a concrete totality in the technical-scientific-informational period. The concept of geographic situations, defined as a set of the main events that characterize the dynamics of each location and their future senses, was used for the systematization of location knowledge. The situations help identify the dimension of the challenges that must be overcome in order to achieve wellbeing in each location and deliver an anchor in the future to contemplate the consolidation of the Unified Health System (SUS) and universalization of health. In this perspective, a study was done on the geographic metropolization situation, where the empiric reference was the municipality of Campinas, SP. The objective was to observe how the health services respond to the challenges placed by the contradictions inherent to the geographic metropolization situation, that is, the relationship between the technical, scientific and informational densities in territory use and the extreme social and spatial inequalities of access to the benefits offered by the metropolis. The methodology used contributed to the understanding of the new restructuring measures recently adopted by the Clinical Hospital of UNICAMP, taking as base the Brazilian structural challenges to consolidate the Unified Health System and the universalization of health in relation to these challenges - their processes and depths - before the metropolization situation. The geographic situation concept grants access to public policies oriented towards comprehending the existing challenges in order to achieve well being according to location dynamics; a knowledge that is required to an ever growing extent by citizens and managers to improve the life and health conditions of the population. (AU) | |