137.24 Setting the aspects of meet the demands of a child with special health needs: The relationship of home-health units

Thursday, April 30, 2009
Sadrivaan A and B (The Hilton Istanbul Hotel )
Roberto José Leal Sr., Professor, Adjun Rio de Janeiro Federal University, Brazil
<>Children with special health needs are those that present demands for continuous care and who need the services of health and social beyond the required for other children in general. The central object: children with special needs for health, family and the demands of health care in the home and hospital. Goals: Identify the conditions for determining the condition of children with special health needs; describe the process of taking care of the child in the home and hospital; discuss the importance of the service in the home and hospital to the demands of care. This from a descriptive study, exploratory in nature in the form of qualitative case study. The results showed that in the case of children with special health needs, in a study, it was possible to observe the great difficulties for which the family caregiver goes to meet all the demand for child care, material in its housing, transportation, the internal movement and outside of their housing, access to care units, with financial support and, above all in ensuring the quality of care performed at home showing a large gap in policy which takes follow-up between the family and the units of health care. It was concluded that the quality of home care is directly related to the attention given by family caregivers, in case the mother, and also that the care and guidance from health professionals, the health facilities surveyed, hospitals and primary health care, predominantly focused on the aspect of the condition of the child, that is, only one of the main requirements of Chapter on Fundamental Rights of the Statute of the Child and Adolescent, the backbone of the health, but protect the right to leisure, culture, education, housing dignified, and others are fundamental to ensuring human dignity and to exercise full citizenship.

Learning Objectives: Identify the conditions for determining the condition of children with special health needs; Describe the process of taking care of the child in the home and hospital; Discuss the importance of the service in the home and hospital to the demands of care.

Sub-Theme: Health Promotion as a strategy for intersectoral action