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Kênia Lara da Silva1, Patrícia Pinto Braga2, Alexandre Ernesto Silva2
1Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Escola de Enfermagem, Departamento de Enfermagem Aplicada. Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Objective:
To analyze the discourses of health professionals about technologies in home care.
Method:
Qualitative research conducted in four public home care services in Minas Gerais. Data obtained from interviews with 52 professionals submitted to Critical Discourse Analysis. Results: The results indicate the functional and economic-financial discourse about the technologies. The economic discourse is dominant and reveals the contradiction between investing in high-cost equipment and the insufficiency of basic inputs for care. There is a tendency to reproduce hospital-centered logic with high technological density. The inventiveness and a process of adaptation at home are evidenced.
Conclusion:
The discourses of health professionals indicate that the circumstances of home care are determinants of the adaptations and improvisations that occur in this context and are due to the contradictions between innovating, inventing, and investing in technologies in home care.
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