This article aims to analyze the performance of Community Councils in penal institutions in Rio Grande do Sul State, related to prison health. This is an exploratory and descriptive research, with a qualitative approach, using Bardin’s data triangulation strategy and Content Analysis. Eight Community Councils participated in the study. The analysis of the collected data resulted in five thematic categories for ...
Background: The epidemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a challenging public health problem. The identification of risk groups is essential for the establishment of prevention, screening, containment and treatment strategies. In Brazil, overcrowding and unsanitary conditions in prisons have been a problem for a long time that facilitates infection diseases. Objective: To reflect on the vulnerability ...
The article analyses, from the perspective of a Equipe de Atenção Básica prisional (EABp), how the prison environment affects the health of women deprived of their liberty and what are the main health needs identified from the daily work of this team. Through a qualitative survey, focal group meetings were held with the participation of 10 professionals from an EABp implemented in a women’s prison in southern B...
O artigo tem como objetivo identificar a produção normativa dos Legislativos Federal e do estado do Rio Grande do Sul sobre o processo de implementação da Atenção Primária à Saúde no sistema prisional. Trata-se de um estudo qualitativo do tipo exploratório e documental com dados secundários (leis, decretos, normas, resoluções, portarias), publicados entre 2003 a 2016. Evidencia-se que a partir da instituição da...