A condição de vida e saúde da população em situação de rua da Cidade de Natal/RN e seus determinantes sócio históricos: uma análise da realidade e dos serviços prestados na atenção básica à saúde

Abstract

This Work and Course Conclusion, resulting from a bibliographic research and integrative review, presents an analysis about the life and health condition of the homeless population and its socio-historical determinants, dealing more specifically with this phenomenon in the city of Natal/RN. It aims to identify the reasons that lead and determine the homeless population to remain on the streets, analyzing the living and health condition of this population contingent in the city of Natal/RN. It identifies and analyzes its socio-historical determinants, under the capitalist logic and neoliberal ideology, at the same time that it identifies and analyzes the services in the area of health care aimed at this population. The capitalist system has in its logic the idea of generating more and more profit, and, concomitantly, generates poverty in an accelerated way, which is intrinsic to its functioning. Inserted in the relative overpopulation (MARX, 1980), living in a condition of pauperism, the homeless population experiences the basic contradictions of the current production system. Deprived of the most basic rights, which contradictorily in Brazil are guaranteed in constitutional terms, these people live in subhuman conditions, and consequently, have a fragile health condition. The theoretical-methodological reflections of the information obtained through the bibliographical and documentary research, and systematized in this work, allowed an understanding of how this population contingent lives, their health condition and how the State responds, through public policies, more specifically health and assistance, to this situation of the homeless population, which in the face of neoliberal ideology, is naturalized and perpetuated as an individual's choice.