O impacto dos determinantes sociais no adoecimento mental das mulheres

Abstract

This study discuss the impacts of social determinants in the sickness of the poor women from São Borja. The general objective of the study was to develop how the social determinants impact women’s health and disease process and influence mental illness for the purpose of contributing with subsidies to expand professional interventions with this population segment. The research was qualitative, the semi structured interview technique was used to collect information and content analysis for the analytical process. The subjects studied were three women from São Borja in the period from September to October. The results of the study reveal that the poverty allied with the role socially attributed to women by patriarchy are social determinants that favor their mental illness. The women studied are engaged in precarious work with low remuneration because they have little professional qualification because they reproduce a way of life in which they prepare for the care of the family in activities of social reproduction. On the other hand, when they see themselves alone in the financial and affective care activities of their families, they must sell their workforce to survive and end up being exploited for long hours at work, as domestic for exemple. In addition, working women blame themselves for not having time to take care of the family in a process in which they take on the burden of affective failures experienced in the family environment in a process that results in mental illness.