Abstract
Objective: Understand the daily life of the carrier-being of tuberculosis deprived of his freedom. Methods: The phenomenological research method and Martin Heidegger's hermeneutics were chosen for the analysis of twenty-two interviews of men living with tuberculosis in five prisons in the state of Para, Brazil. Results: The results unveiled an intricate life in which patients see tuberculosis as a hard-to-accept condition, harder than confinement itself. Conclusion: The daily life of the carrier-being of tuberculosis deprived of freedom, though more specific, is not different from the manner all humans live: most of the time immerse into the daily life inauthentic way of being. To control tuberculosis in prisons it is necessary to deal with the singularities involving not only the disease process, but the dynamics of life in these places, most of the time characterized by hostility and violence in its different forms.
Highlights
Of the tuberculosis cases diagnosed worldwide in 2011, Brazil was the 111th country in incidence level and 17th in number of cases among the 22 countries with the highest disease rates[1]
Per example: if one needs to know about the daily life in prisons, how it is like, we interview the person deprived of liberty
This research allowed us to explore the understanding about the everyday life experienced by persons with tuberculosis in prisons that, specific, in a sense, is no different to the living of all human beings, immersed most of the time in the everyday way of being that characterizes the inauthentic way of man
Summary
Of the tuberculosis cases diagnosed worldwide in 2011, Brazil was the 111th country in incidence level and 17th in number of cases among the 22 countries with the highest disease rates[1]. Regarding the disease in the state of Pará, the incidence of approximately 49 cases per 100.000 people was the third among Brazilian states, preceded only by Rio de Janeiro and Amazonas. In this same year, the city of Belém was confirmed as the second Brazilian capital city in incidence rates, preceded by Porto Alegre only[2]. In the state of Pará in 2011, the incidence rate of the disease was around 1.150/100.000 to a prison population of 12.000 people; i.e. a level 24 to 25 times greater than the incidence among the entire state population and approximately 32 times higher than the national population in the same year for the citizens in general[4]
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