Abstract

COMES, Yamila  and  STOLKINER, Alicia. "If i could i would pay": Research about symbolic access of poor women users from the AMBA to the state health services. Anu. investig. [online]. 2005, vol.12, pp.137-143. ISSN 1851-1686.

This work is an advance of Comes Yamila PHd fellowship financed by UBACyT. (Fellowship Director: Lic. Alicia Stolkiner, Thesis Director Dra. Dora Barrancos). It is framed from the investigation project titled: "Reform in Health care Services of Buenos Aires: changes in the representations and practices of workers and poor users of the sector" (Director Lic. Alicia Stolkiner). It's aim is to describe nada analyze the symbolic access of poor women from the AMBA to health services. The social representations of free attention in public hospitals is analyzed as indicator of symbolic accessibility . Methodology: semi structured Interviews (applied to women selected by theoretic sampling. Conclusions: The social representations about free attention in state hospitals are near to philosophical currents that deny the health attention as a right. They are close to the idea to free health attention as a "charity duty". They also expressed ideas about restriction of health rights for poor populations. This representations are in the same way that the discourses of the International Agencies that had influenced in the Health Reform in Argentina (WMF/WB). In the other hand this representations are far from the rights principles ``that emanates from the National Constitutions.

Keywords : Symbolic access; Free assistance; Rights to health attention; Citizenship; Poor women; Social representations.

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