Cartas às Marias: escrevivências da atividade de agentes comunitárias de saúde em tempos de pandemia

Abstract

This thesis is a call to awakening, to freshen up research and approaches to health work processes. It is presented in letters, chronicles, writings of the activity, evidencing a work that incites to perforate textures, displace forms, plots and daily trails, leaving bare multiple looks and expressions of experiencing the textures of the lives of women who, as community health agents, in their doing, compose strengths, desires and aspirations. The study was based on Yves Clot's clinic of activity and Michel Foucault's ethics of self-care for the analysis of health work, especially focusing on the work of community health agents. The methodological contribution, in turn, proposes the approximation of the Activity Clinic, by Yves Clot, and Escrivências (writing the life), by Conceição Evaristo, in the construction of narratives and writings of the agents' daily work, in a self-confrontation of the activity as a living triad. The writings of oneself, of the work and of the collective constitute directions for the analysis and construction of a policy of resistance and (re)existence in a context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study focused on the pandemic as an analyzer of relationships, public policies, the intensification and precariousness of health work. The results show impediments to the activity, limitations in acting, overloads and uncertainties, differences in women's work and their intersections, but record, as a priority, the lines of flight, deviations, resistances and (re)existences of making history and caring for women, community health agents, who, in experimenting with the production of activity writings, in a pandemic context, self-confront and stylize the work genre as community health agents, in a commitment to reinvent work and health production, led by (re)flourishing of those who do.