Abstract
This study is the result of a survey carried out with professionals of the Family Health Strategy’s teams (FHS) in Araraquara, SP, Brazil. The study analyzed the conceptions held by FHS professionals concerning women, men and gender-based violence from the perspective of gender. The theoretical and methodological framework used was composed of gender and gender-based violence as social constructs guiding health practices. Empirical data were obtained from workshops and submitted to content analysis. The coexistence of critical and potentially transforming conceptions with conservative ones that reproduce the hegemonic ideology of male dominance was observed. These results confirm the need to broaden professional education to enable workers to deal with gender-based violence, which is a common element in the routine lives of women seeking health services.
Highlights
Even though society is in constant transformation, it produces and reaffirms androcentric values that reinforce asymmetry and power in relationships between men and women, which brings about serious problems at its core, such as gender-based violence
The territorialization of health care within the Family Health Strategy (FHS) has enabled a greater establishment of bonds and closeness between professionals and users of health services, unveiling previously obscure or unrecognized problems as objects susceptible to intervention in the health field, as is the case of gender-based violence
Such an understanding can provide elements both to qualify these professionals in caring for victims of gender-based violence and to design care policies to overcome such violence. It can introduce a critical view in regard to how these professionals intervene in the health-disease continuum of women in a connected way in order to heed their needs. To achieve such a goal, this study identifies and analyzes the conceptions of professionals from FHS teams in the city of Araraquara, SP, Brazil in relation to women, men and gender-based violence seeking to make clear contradictions that permeate such conceptions from the perspective of gender
Summary
Gender-based Violence: Conceptions of Professionals on the Family Health Strategy’s Teams. The coexistence of critical and potentially transforming conceptions with conservative ones that reproduce the hegemonic ideology of male dominance was observed These results confirm the need to broaden professional education to enable workers to deal with gender-based violence, which is a common element in the routine lives of women seeking health services. Tais resultados confirmam a necessidade de ampliar a qualificação profissional no sentido de capacitar os trabalhadores para lidar com o fenômeno da violência de gênero, comum no cotidiano da vida das mulheres que buscam os serviços de saúde. Esos resultados confirman la necesidad de ampliar la calificación profesional en el sentido de capacitar a los trabajadores para lidiar con el fenómeno de la violencia de género, común en lo cotidiano de la vida de las mujeres que buscan los servicios de salud.
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