Desenvolvimento, políticas de saúde e assistência a mulheres vítimas de violência no Brasil e na Espanha

Abstract

This paper made a comparative study between Brazil and Spain, regarding the assistance provided to women who had suffered sexual violence, specifically in Montes Claros / MG and Barcelona city, capital of the autonomous community of Catalunha. The analysis considered the development perspective on public policies for women, emphasizing those policies that were more significant after 2000 in both countries. The legislative mark for this study was the National Policy to Combat Violence Against Women (2003), in Brazil, and the promulgation of the Organic Law 1/2004 establishing the integral protection concepts against Gender Violence in Spain. It had established as comparative units the conceptual issue involving the various definitions of violence against women, the relevant legislation to the subject in each country; the hospitals of reference for these services, considering the clinical protocols, multidisciplinary team of professional practice and referrals and also the participation of the local police and the Legal Medical Institute (IML). In this perspective, it was made a field survey, with interviews in a semi-structured format to professionals involved in the care of women and, to understand them, we used content analysis method, enabling inferences able to capture the subjective and objective aspects of the studied phenomenon and its plurality of meanings. Considering the categories chosen and analyzed, the results indicate that Spain, especially Catalunha and therefore Barcelona has better conditions in legislative, structural and organizational terms to assist victims of sexual violence in relation to Brazil, especially Montes Claros.