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    Atenção às mulheres no período do climatério: a construção de diálogos com profissionais de saúde no município de Santos, São Paulo
    (Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), 2019-09-23) Luz, Milene Mori Ferreira [UNIFESP]; Frutuoso, Maria Fernanda Petroli [UNIFESP]; Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
    Women's health has historically been one of the priority focuses of the health sector, especially with regard to actions in the reproductive period, with little emphasis on the climacteric, the transformation period, from the reproductive to the non-reproductive phase, which may cause various symptoms affecting women’s every day. With population aging and increased life expectancy, new approaches to care, disease prevention and climacteric women’s health promotion are needed. This study aimed to know the professionals’ practices and discuss the assistance provided to women in climacteric period in health primary care in Santos. This is an intervention research with teams of the Family Health Strategy (FHS) and the Extended Family Health Center (NASF), with nine professional categories. The data were produced from workshops encouraging the active participation of the subjects. They were recorded, transcribed and analyzed by content analysis. Professionals point out there are no actions focused on this population and that the complaints of women who are in the climacteric period are not perceived or are minimized by the lack of knowledge and reflection on the issue by the team. The FHS actions are still directed to the priority groups (hypertensive and diabetic patients, pregnant women) and some women's complaints are understood as a problem related to mental health (depression) giving invisibility to climacteric women. The workers recognize the difficulty for women to experience the climacteric syndrome with the actions offered by the services, which are not prepared for the approach in the climacteric period and the conditions of vulnerability of women in the studied region. The NASF team can contribute to multidisciplinary actions, which qualify care for women throughout the life cycle. The actions of permanent education in health, in the daily work of the FHS and NASF teams can extend the professionals' understanding of the women care, as well as rethink professional practices in the unique contexts of the territories. The data production from this research may support the construction of public policies in the area of Women's Health in the city of Santos aiming at comprehensive health care and humanized assistance to women in the climacteric period.