Encaminhamos, e agora? Uma análise da medicalização em uma escola de ensino fundamental brasileira

Abstract

How do the recommendations and prescriptions of health professionals reach a Brazilian elementary school and what does this information indicate about medicalization in the school space? It is around these issues that this article is organized.Using documental analysis as a methodology, we sought to investigate what are the referrals and reports produced by a public elementary school, belonging to the network of Application Schools in Brazil, and what tensions the school experiences in this relationship with external professionals. In general terms, the results show a medicalization process consolidating in the school, as indicated by the analysis of medication prescriptions, the areas to which referrals are made and the recommendations of health professionals made to the school. It is also observed that there are tensions around medicalization, which is materialized by the doubts that these diagnoses raise, namely regarding the pedagogical indications that try to tell the school what is correct or not in relation to student‑patients, the effects medication on students, at the same time as there is, in some cases, resistance from families to turn to these professionals.