Cultural singularities: indigenous elderly access to Public Health Service

Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP

Ana Carla Borghi¹  Angela Maria Alvarez¹  Sonia Silva Marcon¹  Lígia Carreira¹ 

关键词: Aged;    Indigenous Population;    Health Services Accessibility;    Heath of Indigenous;    Peoples;    Public Health Nursing;    Anciano;    Población Indígena;    Accesibilidad a los Servicios de Salud;    Salud de Poblaciones Indígenas;    Enfermería en Salud Pública;    Idoso;    População Indígena;    Acesso aos Serviços de Saúde;    Saúde de Populações Indígenas;    Enfermagem em Saúde Pública;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0080-623420150000400008

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

OBJECTIVEDescribing how Kaingang seniors and their primary caregivers experience access to public health services.METHODA qualitative study guided by ethnography, conducted with 28 elderly and 19 caregivers. Data were collected between November 2010 and February 2013 through interviews and participative observation analyzed by ethnography.RESULTSThe study revealed the benefits and difficulties of the elderly access to health services, the facility to obtain health care resources such as appointments, medications and routine procedures, and the difficulties such as special assistance service problems and delays in the dispatching process between reference services.CONCLUSIONThe importance of knowing and understanding the cultural specificities of the group in order to offer greater opportunities for the elderly access to health services was reinforced.

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