This study investigated gender-related violence in 12 family health staffs in Araraquara city. The objectives were to get to know and to analyze, from the gender perspective: the health professionals point of view about man and woman, the professionals' perceptions about gender-related violence and the contradictions that exist in the professionals' conceptions about woman, man and violence against woman. Data were collected during a workshop and the content was analyzed through two different empirical categories: "man and woman in the same 'social boat'" and "gender-related violence". The more relevant themes related to the object of this study received more attention, and were included in two analytical categories: gender and gender-related violence.The results showed that the participants do not perceive gender-related violence as something that comes from the social construction of masculinity and femininity. They do have a critical view about those processes of social construction, but they still have conservative opinions about man and woman's roles: the provider-man and the reproducer-woman; and this is in agreement with the common sense. Discussions about gender-related violence follow the same pattern: with conservative and transforming perceptions at the same time.This mixture of different positionings shows the need to broaden the professional qualifications to deal with this complex, still common, reality of domestic violence inside the territories of the Brazilian Family Health Program.
This study is the result of a survey carried out with professionals of the Family Health Strategy's teams (FHS) in Araraquara, SP, Brazil. The study analyzed the conceptions held by FHS professionals concerning women, men and gender-based violence from the perspective of gender. The theoretical and methodological framework used was composed of gender and gender-based violence as social constructs guiding health practices. Empirical data were obtained from workshops and submitted to content analysis. The coexistence of critical and potentially transforming conceptions with conservative ones that reproduce the hegemonic ideology of male dominance was observed. These results confirm the need to broaden professional education to enable workers to deal with gender-based violence, which is a common element in the routine lives of women seeking health services. Violencia de género: concepciones de profesionales de los equipos de salud de la familiaArtículo resultante de una investigación entre profesionales de los equipos del Programa de Salud de la Familia (PSF) del municipio de Araraquara (SP) que tuvo como objetivo conocer y analizar, bajo la perspectiva de género, las concepciones que los profesionales de los equipos de salud de la familia de ese municipio tienen en relación a: mujer, hombre y violencia de género. El referencial teórico metodológico fue constituido por el género y la violencia de género como constructos sociales orientadores de las prácticas en salud.Los datos empíricos fueron obtenidos en Talleres de Trabajo y sometidos al análisis de contenido. Se constató la coexistencia de concepciones críticas, potencialmente transformadoras con otras conservadoras y reproductoras de la ideología hegemónica de la dominación masculina. Esos resultados confirman la necesidad de ampliar la calificación profesional en el sentido de capacitar a los trabajadores para lidiar con el fenómeno de la violencia de género, común en lo cotidiano de la vida de las mujeres que buscan los servicios de salud.Descriptores: Violencia Contra la Mujer; Salud de la Mujer; Salud de la Familia.
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