Mapping services for women in situations of sexual violence: A possibility for intersectorial articulation

Abstract

Introduction: Georeferencing in the area of public health has helped planning, management and surveillance, favoring social situational analysis and conducting strategies and improvements in health care. Objective: to map the services of care for women in situations of sexual violence in a municipality in the northern region of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil. Method: descriptive study with mapping and georeferencing of services for women in situations of sexual violence. Data were collected from January to March 2019, data tabulation, georeferencing and map generation were performed from the data obtained. For georeferencing and map production, the ArcGIS® 10.1 Software program was used. Results: services were identified to women in situations of sexual violence and five maps were generated: presenting the geographical location of the municipality, the reference services, the public health units that collaborate in referrals of reference and counter-reference and the distribution of the places of dispensation of Post-Exposure Prophylaxis, making it possible to identify the challenges of articulation of the care network and facilitating the creation of planning strategies and action to reduce these challenges. Conclusions: through the georeferencing methodology and production of maps, we obtained the identification of existing spaces in the territory, being able to design possibilities of flow and improve the articulation between services, and this is a contemporary methodology provided the reception of real demands of society, facilitating the flow, dynamics and quality of care provided to women in situations of sexual violence.