ABSTRACT
Objective
to analyze the demands of women from the point of view of multi-professional teams.
Methods
This is a qualitative study developed in a Family Health Unit of a Health Sanitary District in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. A focus group was conducted, and the empirical material was analyzed using the Discourse Analysis technique.
Results
twelve health professionals aged between 27 and 60 years and working for two to 13 years in the Family Health Strategy participated in the research. The professionals characterized the users with social and economic vulnerability and the demands of affective-emotional order related to gender inequities, with an overload of domestic work and family care. The health team constitutes a support point and offers welcoming and sensitive listening.
Conclusion and implications for practice
affective deprivation and wear and tear due to domestic and family functions and the relationship with the partner mark women's demands for care. Professionals perform practices from the perspective of integrality, but there are institutional and team limits in dealing with singularities. Overcoming these limitations requires opening paths to the empowerment of women, which does not portray the problematized reality, and support professionals in meeting the principle of integrality in the context of women in social and economic vulnerabilities.
Keywords:
User Embracement; Family Health Strategy; Integrality in health; Interpersonal Relations; Women's health