Health care for children with Congenital Zika Syndrome

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the care offered to children with Congenital Zika Syndrome, from the perspective of professionals at a public and university  hospital in the state of Rio de Janeiro. An exploratory, qualitative case study was carried out through  participant observation and semi-structured  interviews with eleven health professionals. Data were  conducted by content analysis, thematic modality.  From the perspective of care as one of the dimensions of comprehensiveness in health, we realize that  professionals, mostly women and physicians, are  sensitive to family issues, also considered as a care  unit, and recognize the difference in the care they  provide against the biomedical model still hegemonic  in the health area. However, they point out its limits at a fragmented and seriously deficient network. Such  limits seem to jeopardize care that embraces the  affective and social dimensions of these families,  especially women, legitimized as the center of caring  for their children. The importance of thinking about  an interdisciplinary, critical and reflective health  education that allows for a broader look at the  vulnerabilities and needs of these families, including  an intersectional gender perspective that understands the complex process of social  determination in health, is noted.