Vulnerability in child development: influence of social inequities

• Published in: Revista brasileira em promoção da saúde = Brazilian journal in health promotion Vol. 28; no. 1; p. 58
• Main Authors: da Silva, Daniel Ignacio, Liliana Muller Larocca, Nolasco Chaves, Maria Marta, Verônica de Azevedo Mazza
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Fortaleza Universidade de Fortaleza - Centro de Ciências da Saúde 01.01.2015
• Subjects: Child development; Data acquisition; Empirical analysis; Employment; Health; Kindergarten; Nurses; Qualitative research; Sanitation; Strategy
• ISSN: 1806-1222; 1806-1230
• DOI: 10.5020/3141

Objective: To know the comprehension of Family Health Strategy nurses about the vulnerability in child development. Methods: Exploratory qualitative research carried out with thirty-nine (39) nurses, which worked at 39 Health Units running the Family Health Strategy in Curitiba, Paraná State, Brazil. The study took place from September 2011 to December 2012. For data collection, semi-structured interview was used, and dialectical hermeneutics as a methodological framework, from whose analysis emerged the empirical categories: precariousness in the families’ social insertion, inequities in land occupation, difficulties of access to social protection and promotion, and their contradictions. Results: Family Health Strategy nurses understand as elements of vulnerability in child development the social inequities: low parental education, unemployment, low income; absence of basic sanitation, precarious situation of the building structure, and lack of access to professionalization, social programs, and vacancies in the kindergartens. Conclusion: The nurse understands that the vulnerability in child development is related to elements of socioeconomic nature, and their comprehension of vulnerability exceeds the biological and individual components regarding child development.