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Reflections on equity and its applicability to the nursing work process
Nair Chase da Silva1, Hadelândia Milon Oliveira1
1Universidade Federal do Amazonas. Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
Objectives:
to reflect on the principle of equity from the perspective of social justice and its applicability in the dimensions of the nursing work process.
Methods:
theoretical essay on the challenges for the practice with equity in the dimensions of the Nursing work process: teaching, care, research, political participation and administration.
Results:
the principle of equity should: in education be transversal in the training of future professionals; in assistance to occur without privilege or discrimination, treating the unequal unequally and the equals equally; in research be the target in the creation of new knowledge; in political participation to count on the contribution of social movements; and in the administration to count on the creation of specific executable policies.
Final Considerations:
there are still inequalities in access to services by part of the Brazilian population. Nursing should promote in its work process the implementation of equity promotion policies with a view to social justice.
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