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Health care: from citizen assistance to the autonomy of a subject

Abstract

This paper analyzes healthcare actions in Primary Health Care, questioning the predominance of offer and demand in healthcare model. In response, it marks the relevance of psychoanalysis in care that surpasses the citizen to be rightfully served, indicating the right to care for the subject in their singularity. Added to this perspective are the benefits of work psychology, in which the conquest and strengthening of the health of the workers themselves are necessary for the sustainability of care beyond the application of normative protocols. Thus, the inclusion of psychoanalysis and work psychology adds to the exercise of health care, broadening the perspectives of psychologists involved in primary healthcare beyond the level of a traditional offer of healthcare.

Keywords:
psychology in health; psychoanalysis; primary health care; work activity; workers’ health

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