Health Education for Women Released from Prison in Brazil: Barriers and Possibilities for Intervention

Patrícia de Paula Queiroz Bonato (), Carla Apaecida Arena Ventura (), Renata Karina Reis, Claudio do Prado Amaral, Stefaan De Smet, Sergio Grossi, Emanuele Seicenti de Brito and Isabel Craveiro ()
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Patrícia de Paula Queiroz Bonato: Global Health and Tropical Medicine, GHTM, LA-REAL, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, IHMT, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 1349-008 Lisboa, Portugal
Carla Apaecida Arena Ventura: Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto 14040-902, Brazil
Renata Karina Reis: Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto 14040-902, Brazil
Claudio do Prado Amaral: Law School of Ribeirao Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto 14040-906, Brazil
Stefaan De Smet: HOGENT School of Social Welfare, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Sergio Grossi: Institut des Sciences Juridique et Philosophique de la Sorbonne (ISJPS), 37 Bd de Port Royal, 75013 Paris, France
Emanuele Seicenti de Brito: Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto 14040-902, Brazil
Isabel Craveiro: Global Health and Tropical Medicine, GHTM, LA-REAL, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, IHMT, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 1349-008 Lisboa, Portugal

Social Sciences, 2024, vol. 13, issue 5, 1-13

Abstract: The aim of this work is to present the results of research carried out in a city in the interior of São Paulo that sought to understand the health needs of women released from prisons in the region who are cared for at a Center for Attention to Egress and Family (CAEF) as well as the barriers they report in obtaining support, discussing them in light of educational health interventions described in the international literature. This study conducted formative research to identify the themes and issues that should be included in educational material. Data were collected through body-map storytelling and semi-structured interviews with six and twenty women released from prison, respectively, and nine interviews with professionals from the CAEF and the health sector of a women’s penitentiary in the study location. The main health demands of the women identified in the study were chronic diseases, mental health, gynecological problems, and sexually transmitted diseases, which constitute individual barriers and are aggravated by others of a relational, institutional, and political-systemic nature. It is hoped that the present study will inspire new interventions to be considered in the Brazilian context based on these results.

Keywords: women released from prison; health needs; egress and family care center; health education; possibilities for intervention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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