Política de assistência estudantil : uma abordagem no contexto da atenção à saúde na Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Abstract

The public policies emerged as guidelines to guide the state government actions. With the Federal Constitution of 1988, public policies on higher education were strengthened, resulting in the current student assistance policy, regulated by the Decree No. 7234/2010, which established the National Student Assistance Program (PNAES). The program aims the permanence of socioeconomic vulnerability students and consists of reducing the number of retention and evasion of students in higher education. Among the actions of PNAES, we have Health Care. From this perspective, this work analyzes the student assistance policy at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), on campus João Pessoa, trying to understand how UFPB, limited to the institution number 1 Campus, carry out student care actions within the scope of Health Care. Thus, our general objective is to investigate the actions for student ́s Health Care through the Student Assistance Policy at Campus 1 of UFPB. This study was carried out through a qualitative approach research, of an applied nature with a descriptive purpose of the studied object. The technical procedures were carried out by bibliographical, documentary and survey research through the application of questionnaires and semi-structured interviews to the research subjects. The data analysis was carried out by the Content Analysis method from the perspective of Laurence Bardin. The research took place on UFPB campus I, with 10 (ten) students regularly enrolled in undergraduate courses at the Health Sciences Center (CCS), residents of the university residence and the Health Care Reference Center (CRAS) users from UFPB. The research showed that there is low dissemination of the student assistance policy within the UFPB campus and that students have late knowledge of the CRAS service. There are also transitions in management regarding access, referral and counter-referral of medical specialties, which causes students to be dissatisfied with the progress of health treatment. Despite this, the CRAS was well evaluated by the students.