Social Work and defense rights in primary health care

Abstract

This article proposes to reflect on the limits and possibilities that permeate the guarantee of rights in the work of social workers inserted in Primary Health Care, based on the reality of the Municipality of Juiz de Fora - MG. The methodological path used included an empirical research, of a qualitative nature, obtaining data collected through semi-structured interviews that were later organized, analyzed and related to the theoretical framework researched and studied. From the reflection on the answers presented, at various moments, there are characteristics of contemporary capitalism, permeated by the neoliberal ideology, which stimulates the expropriation of rights, the atrophy of the state and social policies. However, although social workers find limits that hinder their professional autonomy, it is possible to establish strategies - professional and political - based on the perspective of guaranteeing the rights of SUS users.