Saúde in loco: implementação e organização operacional do Consultório na Rua do município de Palmas - Tocantins

Abstract

This research, entitled "HEALTH IN THE STREET: implementation and operational organization of the Street Clinic in the municipality of Palmas, Tocantins", aims to analyze the process of implementation and development of the Street Clinic in Palmas, Tocantins, from 2016 to 2022. To this end, it sought to understand the historical, economic, political and social context of the phenomenon of the homeless population; to identify the constitution and development of the service, as well as to understand the operational dynamics for making the right to health viable for this public from an intersectoral and interdisciplinary perspective. The study object is the Street Clinic, which is a device considered to be the gateway to the health system for the homeless population, with the function of increasing the homeless population's access to health facilities in a more timely and comprehensive manner. This is a qualitative bibliographical and documentary study. Data was collected through the municipality's public and official databases, such as articles published on websites, spoken and printed newspapers, magazines, photographs, as well as official quantitative reports from the Street Clinic made available by the Municipal Health Department, after approval by the Research Project Evaluation Committee (CAPP).