Estereótipos do médico veterinário na sociedade : Uma abordagem sobre a valorização profissional

Abstract

A public opinion about a given profession is changeable according to social interactions and the inclusive communication of its professionals in an ongoing dialogue. This study sought to understand society's current interpretation of the role and aspects of veterinarian valuation, in addition to identifying whether such stereotypes influence working conditions for these professionals. For the interpretation of thinking’s, an objective consultation was carried out over the internet in Google Forms® with the population without professional or academic relationship with veterinary medicine, generating a non-probabilistic sampling in the analysis of the socioeconomic profile of the participants together with their knowledge about the doctor veterinarian and his professional performance. The veterinary medicine is responsible for care of the balance of the ecosystem, creating strategies and actively working to ensure human and animal health and their interactions with the environment, where the concept of expanded health must be disseminated to include the human population in collaborative strategies of public health by several trained professionals. However, this reality lacks the presence and space of this professional in comprehensive activities, including those that demand active and permanent interaction with society, which would stimulate a change in mentality and make the population consider the service of the veterinarian essential for collective health. The “one health” is interpreted in a diffuse way and far from the real objective of the veterinary professional, including because there is no equal preparation of professionals, where education is governed by the characteristics and preferences of public management, motivated by the population, which list their needs in use services. Unfortunately, the veterinary medicine has its image and opinions are limited to the diagnostic and curative model of the veterinary clinic , which comes in a technological and functional expansion highlighted from other zone of the profession, often inaccessible to all audiences and making the profession totaled in just one a prominent zone, hindering the sanitary control of zoonotic diseases in a currently globalized world, contributing to social inequalities and the importance of a population unprepared to face infectious diseases, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Even recognizing the involvement of veterinary medicine in aspects of public health, opinions are governed from an individual and sub-individual perspective, in the medical care of domestic animals, even in community health posts, where the veterinarian is inserted in the health support center of the family.