In contact with the violence: the health care professionals and their patients victims of abuse

Authors

  • Marlene Braz
  • Maria Helena C.A. Cardoso

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-11692000000100013

Keywords:

violence, legal liability, medical assistance, culture, societies, infant health

Abstract

Using qualitative methods of collecting data and analysis, this article outlines the way health care profissionals, mainly pediatricians, feel about violence and their responsibility in denouncing the cases which they were forced to deal with. Although a typical "case study" - the experience in Instituto Fernandes Figueira/FIOCRUZ - the major concern of this work is to offer material for reflexion about procedures that should or could be taken in face to child morbidity caused by "external causes", making suggestions for a health conduct that enhances the relationship between violence and the medical practice related to child and adolescent abuse.

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Published

2000-01-01

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2000)

Section

Original Articles

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How to Cite

In contact with the violence: the health care professionals and their patients victims of abuse. (2000). Revista Latino-Americana De Enfermagem, 8(1), 91-97. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-11692000000100013