Abstract
The healthcare of people with albinism goes beyond the social invisibility of this population group, access to information and health services, comprehensive care and multiplicity in life production. The aim is to discuss the health care of people with albinism and their family. Descriptive study with a qualitative approach was developed at Benjamin Constant Institute (IBC). Data collection took place between April and May of 2012, using semi-structured individual interviews with ten participants, people with albinism / family, as follows: two students of IBC, six mothers, a grandmother and a user of the ophthalmology service. Highlighting the intersectionality, health related education and social security. There is a lack of formulation and execution of social policies, regulatory requirements, as the possibility of overcoming social invisibility and ensuring the right to health. The lives of people with albinism goes beyond disability and difference and demand the fulfillment of regulatory requirements, unique and subjective processes for the production of care in daily health practices. More than data knowledge, they require listening, horizontal relations and co-production for health care.
Keywords:
albinism; disabled persons; delivery of health care.