The trajectories of neighborhood health promoters during the Covid 19 pandemic in General Pueyrredón.

SORDINI, MARÍA VICTORIA; MARISCAL, EMILIANO MANUEL; ESTEBAN, CAMILA; MARIANA BERBERIAN

Conferencia; 9na. Edición de la Cumbre de la Ciencia en la 78ª Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas (SSUNGA78); 2023

Organización de las Naciones Unidas y Red de Investigación Traslacional de Salud (RITS) del CONICET

The collective organization of the health emergency was nodal in the intervention of multiple health programs and social programs. In Argentina and in the region, broad social sectors have been experiencing conditions of social inequality for decades under governance models in which citizen participation, the mediation of the public administration and private actors converge to address the social issue. The Covid 19 pandemic arrived in a context in which the interruptions to contain the health emergency were supported by a network of community self-organization that has persisted for decades. The objective of this work is to characterize the trajectories of the neighborhood health promoters who intervened in the implementation of social programs and health programs for the attention of the health emergency due to the Covid 19 pandemic in the General Pueyrredon District during 2020- 2021.The General Pueyrredón party consolidated its community organization with the creation of Neighborhood Emergency Committees that, in dialogue with members of the municipal legislature, health authorities of the three governmental jurisdictions, and the National University of Mar del Plata, constituted a Health Board. Multiple social and health programs were also implemented through the work of neighborhood health promoters who accompanied soup kitchens, identified risk groups and activated assistance protocols in positive cases of Covid-19.The design is qualitative, in-depth interviews (Piovani, 2007) and expressive creative meetings (ECE) (Scribano, 2014) were conducted with neighborhood health promoters who participated in social and health programs in 2020 and 2021. The analysis is theoretical. by snowball strategy for the interviews, and the ECE participants were summoned guaranteeing the representativeness of the intergroup intervention areas and sufficient intragroup homogeneity/heterogeity according to the geographical distribution of the 33 Neighborhood Emergency Committees that worked in the city