Abstract
to reflect on the principle of equity from the perspective of social justice and its applicability in the dimensions of the nursing work process. theoretical essay on the challenges for the practice with equity in the dimensions of the Nursing work process: teaching, care, research, political participation and administration. the principle of equity should: in education be transversal in the training of future professionals; in assistance to occur without privilege or discrimination, treating the unequal unequally and the equals equally; in research be the target in the creation of new knowledge; in political participation to count on the contribution of social movements; and in the administration to count on the creation of specific executable policies. there are still inequalities in access to services by part of the Brazilian population. Nursing should promote in its work process the implementation of equity promotion policies with a view to social justice.
Highlights
At the moment when Brazil debated the theme “Democracy and Health”, in the 16th National Health Conference (8th + 8), Nursing, as in previous occasions, joins this purpose by placing on the agenda of its largest event, the 71st Brazilian Congress of Nursing, the principle of Equity.When debating democracy and health, it necessarily goes through the doctrinal/philosophical principles of the Unified Health System (SUS), among them, Equity, which, without Social Justice is not promoted
It is important to say that this movement is born with the Sanitary Movement, which built the Sanitary Reform process, based on values such as citizenship, democratization of health and human rights(1)
For some authors(2,5), there should be no difference in the organization or pattern of care between groups or subgroups of society due to their demography or geography, a question of difficult resolution in our country, of continental dimensions and great differences in geographical areas; some authors(1,3) agree that there is a similarity between the words equity and equality from the point of view of the meaning and origin of the word, but that despite the semantic and etymological proximity to equity, both are opposed to inequality, Equity qualifies Equality
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Nair Chase da SilvaI ORCID: 0000-0002-5880-4138 Hadelândia Milon OliveiraI ORCID: 0000-0001-8830-9202. EDITOR IN CHIEF: Dulce Aparecida Barbosa ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Antonio José de Almeida Filho
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