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0309/2018 - Treatment networks and rare diseases patients associations
Redes de tratamento e as associações de pacientes com doenças raras.

Author:

• Maria Angelica de Faria Domingues de Lima - Lima, MAFD - RIo de Janeiro, RJ - <mangelicafdl@gmail.com>

Co-author(s):

• Ana Cristina Bohrer Gilbert - Gilbert, ACB - <ana.cbgilbert@yahoo.com>
• Dafne Dain Gandelman Horovitz - Horovitz, D.D.G. - <dafne@iff.fiocruz.br>


Abstract:

Patient s associations are an example of biossocial groups, since its formation is motivated by common biological characteristics, such as rare diseases, and sometimes are included in social movements in health. Even though a national policy geared to rare diseases was promulgated in 2014, patients still struggle to acsess the national health system, mainly regarding treatment. Therefore, we investigated how rare diseases patient’s associations forge, through social networks, access to treatment. This research is part of a study about the use of social media by rare diseases patient’s associations, which employs netnography as a method. Data sources were Facebook pages of the associations, in Brazil. We observed that they have diferent activities,patient and family guidance about treatment and quality of life, to active participation on creation and enactment of public policies. The discourses presented sugest that the focus of patient’s associations is, in the majority of cases, the access to drugs rather than the effective enactment of the national policy geared towards rare diseases.

Keywords:

rare diseases, social network, judicialization of health, health policy, qualitative research

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Lima, MAFD, Gilbert, ACB, Horovitz, D.D.G.. Treatment networks and rare diseases patients associations. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2018/Jun). [Citado em 19/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/treatment-networks-and-rare-diseases-patients-associations/16842?id=16842&id=16842



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