Trabalho, Educação e Saúde - TES (Work, Education and Health) is an open access scientific journal, edited by the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health, from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.
By establishing itself as a public policy based on the ethical-aesthetic-political paradigm, the National Humanization Policy introduces a new sense to the proposal of humanizing health: A counter-hegemonic sense, coupled with the understanding of life as openness and multiplicity. Given the challenge of operating such an innovative concept, which is contrary to traditional practices, this study sought to discuss the understanding and experience that institutional supporters trained under the National Humanization Policy had of the ethical and political dimension of the proposal. The subject of this research project was investigated in the light of a qualitative methodological approach, exploratory and descriptive in nature, having as subjects the graduates of an institutional supporter training process held in 2009, in Santa Catarina, Brazil. Through interviews and documentary research, the results were the obtained of an understanding of the scale based on the valuation of subjects and democratization of relations. The experiences and tests, however, were marked by obstacles and challenges, such as the concentration of power at the institutions and the fragility of the health care model, still guided by management and biomedical rationales. Also challenging were the difficulties related to the understanding of a few of the concepts of the Policy and the ways in which it has been organized both in health services and inter-federatively.
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