O acesso aos serviços de saúde como uma ferramenta de ressocialização: percepção de mulheres encarceradas

Abstract

The growth in the number of reeducated women calls attention to multiple problems that affect the universe of women, however, society has a prison system with restricted access to health services. In this perspective, there is an urgent need to materialize practices that provide for the fulfillment of the sentence of deprivation of liberty associated with the process of resocialization, considering health as one of the pillars for the success of this process. This study aimed to reveal the perception of women about access to health services as a tool in the re-socialization process. This is a phenomenological-sociological study, with a qualitative approach, carried out between the months of November / 2018 to November / 2019. The study scenario was the Santa Luzia Female Prison (EPFSL), located in Maceió, Alagoas, the research participants were 10 women in condition of deprivation of liberty. Alfred Schutz's Social Phenomenology was listed as a theoretical-methodological framework, making it possible to unveil the perceptions and meanings about access to health services as a tool of the re-socialization process and to build the following thematic categories: Perceptions of Access to health services: Invisibility of women and Access to health services as a resocialization tool: Broken links and Work and Reading as an alternative to Escape from forgetfulness, idleness and loneliness. The data made it possible to unveil women's perception of invisibility in relation to health services, and mainly, there is a disconnection between health services and the re-socialization process. Women see resocialization directed only at education and work activities, and they are used as a temporary escape strategy from oblivion, idleness and loneliness that permeates the prison cells. From their perspective, the phenomenon of resocialization does not have links that are interrelated to access to health services.