AS DIMENSÕES HISTÓRICO-CONCRETAS E SOCIOSANITÁRIAS DA POPULAÇÃO EM SITUAÇÃO DE RUA NO BRASIL EM TEMPOS DE PANDEMIA GLOBAL

Abstract

The present work deals with the homeless population in Brazil, especially in the current conjuncture of sanitary crisis caused by Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), with the objective of evaluating the possible impacts of the pandemic in this population group and the protective measures of the Through health and social assistance policies. The methodological construction of this work was through exploratory and explanatory bibliographic research, based on Marx's social theory. Divided into three chapters, theoretical and historical arguments are presented about this social phenomenon, to contextualize it and deepen the knowledge about the socioeconomic and political-cultural conditions that reproduce the homeless population, an expression of the social question that, historically , is superficially faced by the Public Power, even after the repeal of repressive legislation and the institution of the Democratic Rule of Law, by the Citizen Constitution. This reality is confirmed by the findings of this study, which point out that the pandemic of COVID-19 deepened the degressive effects of the structural crisis of capital and the counter-reforms of the Brazilian State, as well as identified multidimensional impacts on people who already survive on the streets, as well as enhancing reproduction of this social phenomenon and hinders the process of leaving this alternative for survival. And in the face of this reality of counter-reformist transformation of the national State, budgetary, operational and human resources limitations were found in the Health and Social Assistance policies (Street Clinic, Center Pop, Institutional Reception and Emergency Aid), which compromise the protective capacity of the Public Power. We conclude, therefore, that this context of Pandemic Times maximized the reproduction of pauperism, setbacks in the world of work, inequalities based on skin color and the commodification of basic goods and services for human survival, which are the foundations of the impacts in the homeless population, while the protective benefits provided by the State were minimal, given this international public health emergency caused by COVID-19.