POLITICAL PATHWAY OF HOME HEALTH CARE IN MINAS GERAIS

Abstract

Home care has been reinterpreted in the context of Brazilian public health policies, anchored in a new way of conceiving and offering care. The political, juridical and ideological trajectory of the home care offer in the country has instigated studies. It was analyzed the political trajectory of the implementation of Home Care in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, discussing the movements evoked by the regulation of the National Policy of Home Care published in the country in 2011. Descriptive-exploratory research, with a qualitative approach, carried out in 19 Home Care Services offered in Minas Gerais, which respected the ethical aspects of research with human beings. The data were obtained from an interview with 22 coordinators/service managers and 03 key informants, and were submitted to the Thematic Content Analysis. The results are organized into two categories: the political configuration of Home Care; the path of implementation of the provision of Home Care in Minas Gerais and effects of the Policy. The findings point to the political configuration of HC in the country, based on federal regulations; and the expansion of services in the state driven by the financial induction of the National Policy. It is concluded that home care is an alternative care that welcomes the demands of the "old" services, but at the same time, it has contributed to advances in the comprehensive care provision and productive restructuring of the health work.