AS NECESSIDADES DE SAÚDE NO MUNDO DO SILÊNCIO: UM DIÁLOGO COM OS SURDOS

Abstract

This research is a qualitative study and the objective is: analyze the necessities related to the health of deaf people. The categories were: extrinsic and intrinsic necessities of health. The first one is related to educational and informative aspects about specific themes about health, because of necessity of explanation or because of curiosity; the second category is related to the communication as being the biggest difficulty in the access of the deaf to the services of health and discrimination in the treatment offered by the professionals. It was asserted, by the deaf, the necessity of a interpreter of Libras or health professional that could understand them and that could also be sensitive related to the integration and to the fact of humanizing. We can conclude that there’s necessity of creating strategies and health politics that have as objective consolidate the integration including the deaf people, with the guarantee of an inclusive care, qualified and efficient.