Abstract
OBJECTIVE
To analyze child health care and the defense of their rights from the perspective of adolescent mothers.
METHODS
An exploratory study with qualitative thematic analysis of data, based on conceptual aspects of care and the right to health, from semi-structured interviews with 20 adolescent mothers ascribed by Family Health teams.
RESULTS
Maternal reports indicate that child health care requires responsibility and protection, with health practices that promote child advocacy. Gaps in assistance which preclude the full guarantee of the right to child health care were also highlighted.
CONCLUSION
The right to health care assumed different meanings, and the forms to guarantee them were linked to individual behavior in detriment to broader actions that consider health as a social product, connected to the guarantee of other fundamental rights.
Descriptors:
Child; Adolescent; Right to Health; Nursing