ABSTRACT
This is a qualitative study, with an ethnographic approach, conducted with 15 health professionals from the prison system, through semi-structured interviews, organized and treated by the software Nvivo 12, and performed content analysis in thematic analysis mode. The research revealed three thematic categories: Daily care for children in prison; Maintenance care in child intercurrences; and Challenges for providing care to children in prison. In prison, child care becomes a challenge for the health professional, due to the lack of physical structure, scarcity of material inputs, an environment of violence and tension that influence the provision of comprehensive care to children living in the context of maternal prison. Therefore, it is necessary to implement the National Policy for Child Health Care in the Unified Health System with the development of actions that favor the improvement of child care in line with the National Policy for Comprehensive Health Care of Persons Deprived of Liberty in the Prison System.
KEYWORDS
Child care; Prisons; Child; Disaster vulnerability; Health personnel