Os sentidos do adoecer por pacientes com Lúpus residentes no Município de Muritiba - BA

Abstract

The Lupus presents peculiarities to be considered ranging from the difficulty in being effectively diagnosed until the absence of policies that cover the specificity demands. Given this, and based on the hypothesis that patients living in small towns tend to face greater difficulties to treatment access, this Undergraduate thesis consists in an analysis of the screening data of patients with lupus residing in the county of Muritiba-BA, as well as the implications of their access to health services. The methodology used, which is eminently qualitative, is based on the systematic listening of patients residing in that city from the researcher's network of contacts, whose data were produced using the technique of semistructured interviews. In order to improve the intelligibility of the data, this paper contextualizes the question from bibliographical studies on the notions of health and disease, based on the contributions of anthropology, as well as a brief overview of the specifications of policies that involve access to health in Brazil. As result, we conclude that lupus, as a pathology that has specificities, requires greater attention to the health access policies in the country and that reach the cities satisfactorily.