Ethics of Care as a Base for the Implementation of a Brazilian Public Policy of Humanization

• Main Authors: Sabrina Buziquia Pontes, Yasmin Elero, Carla Corradi-Perini
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Pontificia Comillas 2018-10-01
• Series: Revista Iberoamericana de Bioética
• Subjects: bioética; humanização da assistência; políticas públicas de saúde; sistema único de saúde
• Online Access: https://revistas.comillas.edu/index.php/bioetica-revista-iberoamericana/article/view/8838

The objective was to discuss the possibility of ethics of care as a basis for the implementation of the National Humanization Policy (PNH) in Brazilian health care institutions. Four thematic categories emerged from a documentary analysis and integrative review: humanization in the professional and patient relationship and the rights of users; humanization and the effectiveness of the attention model focused on integrality; humanization in work processes: a dialogical praxis among health professionals and; humanization in training and qualification of health professionals. The ethics of care can support the humanization in health, as micropolitics, allowing the dialogical praxis among the subjects.