Helena Maria Scherlowski Leal David1, Sonia Acioli1, Maria Rocineide Ferreira da Silva2, Osvaldo Peralta Bonetti3, Hozana Passos4. 1. Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Faculdade de Enfermagem, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. 2. Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Cuidados Clínicos em Enfermagem e Saúde. Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. 3. Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brasil. 4. Prefeitura Municipal de Belo Horizonte. Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: to discuss the role of Brazilian nursing to face political, economic and sanitary challenges that compose the crisis situation related to Covid-19 pandemics. METHODS: Critical-thinking study with analytics characteristics, based on latin-american critical epidemiology and on the concept of social determination of health. RESULTS: the central issues related to the Brazilian political-economic and health scenario are problematized, with emphasis on the impacts in terms of social inequality deepening. Nursing role is discussed considering the impacts in these worker's health, and the relevance of nurses' actions in the several professional practice scenarios to defend social protection. CONCLUSIONS: the role of Brazilian nursing as a social practice for the defense of life and universal access to health is reaffirmed as a way of achieving social justice.
OBJECTIVE: to discuss the role of Brazilian nursing to face political, economic and sanitary challenges that compose the crisis situation related to Covid-19 pandemics. METHODS: Critical-thinking study with analytics characteristics, based on latin-american critical epidemiology and on the concept of social determination of health. RESULTS: the central issues related to the Brazilian political-economic and health scenario are problematized, with emphasis on the impacts in terms of social inequality deepening. Nursing role is discussed considering the impacts in these worker's health, and the relevance of nurses' actions in the several professional practice scenarios to defend social protection. CONCLUSIONS: the role of Brazilian nursing as a social practice for the defense of life and universal access to health is reaffirmed as a way of achieving social justice.
Authors: Olga Maria Pimenta Lopes Ribeiro; Letícia de Lima Trindade; Clemente Neves de Sousa; Paulo João Figueiredo Cabral Teles; Maria Filomena Passos Teixeira Cardoso; Carla Gomes da Rocha; Sónia Cristina Costa Barros; João Miguel Almeida Ventura-Silva Journal: Porto Biomed J Date: 2022-02-08