O Serviço Social na política de saúde : a atuação da(o) assistente social na busca ativa junto a usuários(as) com HIV/AIDS em abandono ao tratamento no SAE do Hospital Giselda Trigueiro

Abstract

This course conclusion work addresses Social Service in Health Policy, demarcating the role of the social worker in the active search for users living with VHI/SIDA, facing the problem of treatment abandonment, within the scope of the Assistance Service Specialist at Giselda Trigueiro Hospital. Its objective is to identify and analyze the importance of the social worker's role in health services, focusing on the Active Search for users living with VHI/SIDA at the Giselda Trigueiro Hospital, in a context of neoliberal offensive, demarcating the determinants that influence abandonment of the treatment. The methodological path began with the elaboration and operationalization of the intervention project carried out during the period of Mandatory Curricular Internship II, which consisted of the production of the SOP - Standard Operating Procedure - for carrying out the Active Search in the hospital's Specialized Assistance Service, in together with the multidisciplinary team, through collegiate meetings, guided by bibliographic and documentary research, supporting and defining the flow necessary to carry out the Active Search. From a critical-dialectic perspective of analysis, there was a deepening and expansion of the theme during the Course Completion Work Orientation I-II, subsidized by bibliographical research based on a dialogue with authors who discuss this theme – present throughout the work - and again documentary, based on data collected during the internship period, documented in the field diary and spreadsheets created for the internship field, in addition to being based on the parameters for the work of social workers in politics of health. Finally, with the analysis of the data studied, it becomes evident how important the role of the social worker in health is, especially in Active Search, which appears as a strategy for reducing abandonment cases and for greater adherence to treatment for people living with VHI/SIDA, thus contributing to a better quality of life for users.