Bureaucratic routes of care-worker women in the health system in the context of hidden poverty in Teusaquillo, Bogotá, Colombia

Abstract

Introduction. This article explores, with an ethnographic approach, the difficulties of access to health services in the context of hidden poverty in Teusaquillo, Bogotá, Colombia. Objective. To reconstruct and analyze the bureaucratic routes in the General System of Social Security in Health in cases of violation of the right to health in subjects identified as hidden poor or vulnerable residents in this locality. Methods. Participant observations, interviews, and documentary analysis were done. Results. It was observed the complex associations that occur in the process of co-production of reality, that of precarious subjects or hidden poor and their access to health. Conclusions. It was recognized the trajectories of pauperization and the narratives that reveal the hidden poverty in their multiple manifestations and intersections of class, age, gender, and care work.