A saúde nas eleições de 2018: Das propostas dos candidatos ao voto de cidadãos

Abstract

The present work aimed to analyze the health-related aspects considered by health professionals and users of primary care facilities, for a vote definition on the second runoff in the 2018 elections. This is a descriptive study of a qualitative approach that, for data collection, adopted interviewing techniques, such as semi structured script and form application with 10 health professionals and 44 users of basic health units which obtained the “Very Good” concept on the third cycle of evaluation of the National Access Improvement and Basic Care Quality Program (PMAQ). To analyze user’s data a data processing support tool was used, named the Interface de R pour les Analyses Multidimensionnelles de Textes et de Questionnaires (IRAMUTEQ), in one of the performed analysis the Descendent Hierarchical Classifying (DHC), forming five analytical classes. Class 5 originated the “Renegade Vote”; classes 1, 2 3 and 4 the category “Health as a part of welfare”. For the aforementioned data were used the Correspondence Factorial Analysis, the Resemblance Analysis and themed data analysis based on pertaining literature. The path taken to analyze data referring to healthcare professionals used as guidelines the work of Laurence Bardin, where the following categories emerged: Consultation to Government Programs and Aspects justifying the vote. The reflections were based on pertaining literature and on sociopsychological and socioeconomical theories explaining the electoral behavior. It was demonstrated the absence of consultations of government programs of the candidates and the objection to the Health-related proposals as a criterion to resolve voting, revealing not only the health care facilities users but also their professionals are influenced by culture imprints, such as political party preferences, regionalism and the denial of means of communication and social themes as a source for consultation. Health, even though historically present on political rallies, is still unconsidered by society during the elections, the very moment when political paths could be shifted.