Abstract
To analyze child health care and the defense of their rights from the perspective of adolescent mothers. An exploratory study with qualitative thematic analysis of data, based on conceptual aspects of care and the right to health, from semi-structured interviews with 20 adolescent mothers ascribed by Family Health teams. Maternal reports indicate that child health care requires responsibility and protection, with health practices that promote child advocacy. Gaps in assistance which preclude the full guarantee of the right to child health care were also highlighted. The right to health care assumed different meanings, and the forms to guarantee them were linked to individual behavior in detriment to broader actions that consider health as a social product, connected to the guarantee of other fundamental rights.
Highlights
In providing healthcare for children, it is essential to focus on their essential needs[1] and to identify vulnerable situations in the face of adverse conditions for its development[2,3]
Data collection was conducted by the first author in January and February 2014 and followed the following steps: researchers attended the selected USF; they collected a list of names and addresses of ascribed adolescent mothers that met inclusion criteria, with the assistance of Family Health Team members (Saúde da Família - SF); they visited the home of adolescent mothers in the company of a Community Health Agent (Agente Comunitário de Saúde - ACS); they approached teenage mothers through home visits and conducted individual semi-structured recorded interviews
An expanded role of health professionals involves potential subjects in the process of defending rights in childhood and adolescence, in pursuit of health promotion and protection. In this study it was possible make a few observations on the right to child health care in the statements expressed by adolescent mothers
Summary
In providing healthcare for children, it is essential to focus on their essential needs[1] and to identify vulnerable situations in the face of adverse conditions for its development[2,3]. Under the recognition of children's rights, the International Convention of Children's Rights was considered a legal frame of reference[6], and brought forth principles contained in the 1988 Federal Constitution of Brazil According to the paradigm of full protection, children and adolescents are considered subjects who hold rights, because they are in peculiar conditions of development, need special attention and protection, and should be top priority of the state, society and family[7]. From a formal point of view, Brazil has social programs and specific laws such as legal protection mechanisms and support for the most vulnerable groups. There are still social segments that do not even know their rights or the mechanisms that ensure them
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