Construction and transformation of social representations of AIDS and implications for health care

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem

Denize Cristina De Oliveira¹ 

[1] ,Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Faculdade de Enfermagem ,Brazil

关键词: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome;    Social Perception;    Delivery of Health Care;    Social Change;    Síndrome de Imunodeficiência Adquirida;    Percepção Social;    Assistência à Saúde;    Mudança Social;    Síndrome de Inmunodeficiencia Adquirida;    Percepción Social;    Prestación de Atención de Salud;    Cambio Social;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0104-11692013000700034

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

OBJECTIVES: to analyze the process of the constitution and evolution of social representations and practices referent to aids, based on studies carried out in the last eleven years among health professionals. METHOD: a comparison of representational structures of aids in different decades was undertaken, accompanied by a study of the silent zone, involving health professionals. Data collection and analysis included techniques of free association, structural analysis, and study of the silent zone. RESULTS: the existence of a process of change was observed in the social representations of aids, with the introduction of the possibility of co-existence with the disease and the reduction of the importance of death. CONCLUSIONS: this process is presented as the result of a complex movement of symbolic constructions arising from human interactions, contributing to knowledge of ways of thinking associated with the syndrome and to professional practices in healthcare.

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