O prescrito e o cotidiano da Rede Cegonha de um município do agreste Paraibano

Abstract

In Brazil, the public policy that supports the care of women and children up to two years of age is guided by the Stork Network, which has proposed changes in order to overcome the care fragmentation and disarticulation of health actions directed to this group. However, there are gaps experienced by users, health professionals and managers who signal that the normative framework of this thematic network guides how their precepts should be followed, but that the people pluralism, of the collectivity and the relationships that are established that are defining this thematic network functioning. This study objective was to understand the daily life of the Stork Network of an Agreste Paraibano municipality, from the users, health professionals and managers perspective. This is a Case Study with a qualitative approach based on the Comprehensive Sociology of Everyday Life. The scenarios were the maternities and the Basic Health Units of Campina Grande / PB, which is the second municipality of the state with the highest obstetric demand, being a regional reference in this type of care. The social actors involved in the Stork Network participated in the study, with 15 users, 31 health professionals and 13 managers. For data collection, semi-structured interviews and observation were carried out. Subsequently the data were triangulated and then submitted to the Thematic Content Analysis, emerging three empirical categories:1. Day-to-day care scenes: 1. the Stork Network under construction; 2. Disconnections and connections between the attention points of the Stork Net; 3. The women, health professionals and managers view on care in the maternity hospitals of the Stork Network. The results indicate that the Stork Network is reconstructed / constructed in daily life, in the interactions that occur among the social actors involved, and, in spite of obstacles, users, professionals and managers reinvent / invent ways to operationalize care, both in the systemic and in the care context. In this sense, even in the scenarios in which childbirth occurs, there is already, even if incipient, the introduction of changes to guarantee good practices. It was also possible to apprehend the fragility of the Stork Net. The logistics system offers an insufficient amount of inputs, medicines and there is also a fragility in the interaction of the attention points, mainly due to the lack of understanding of the medium and high complexity professionals of their role in the network. In addition, maternity wards are often overcrowded, as there is an insufficiency of obstetric beds to attend all the municipalities regionally agreed upon in the Stork Network of Campina Grande / PB. The reports of obstetric violence were common, despite this and the difficulties evidenced during prenatal care, the women felt satisfied with the care received. It is concluded that daily life is dynamic and the Stork Network is alive and, therefore, care materializes with several possibilities and peculiarities due to the heterogeneity of crossings of various natures that are present in sociality among social actors. It is suggested that new studies be carried out in other municipalities in order to deepen the issues presented and analyzed, since the Stork Network is a recent Unified Health System strategy in the women and their children care, thus needing to broaden the discussions on the dynamicity of social phenomena that occur in daily life.