Rural women and violence situation: access and accessibility limits to the healthcare network
Marta Cocco da Costa1, Ethel Bastos da Silva1, Joannie Dos Santos Fachinelli Soares2
1Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Campus Palmeira das Missões, Curso de Enfermagem, Departamento de Ciências da Saúde, Palmeira das Missões, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
Objective:
To analyze the access and accessibility to the healthcare network of women dwelling in rural contexts undergoing violence situation, as seen from the professionals' speeches.
Method:
A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive study with professionals from the healthcare network services about coping with violence in four municipalities in the northern region of Rio Grande do Sul. The information derived from interviews, which have been analyzed by thematic modality.
Results:
(Lack of) information of women, distance, restricted access to transportation, dependence on the partner and (lack of) attention by professionals to welcome women undergoing violence situation and (non)-articulation of the network are factors that limit the access and, as a consequence, they result in the lack of confrontation of this problem.
Conclusion:
To bring closer the services which integrate the confrontation network of violence against women and to qualify professionals to welcome these situations are factors that can facilitate the access and adhesion of rural women to the services.
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