Abstract
The work analyzes the limits and challenges for the access of the female prison population released from the prison system in the services of the Health Care Network (RAS). This is a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study conducted with ten workers from a prison primary care team in a female prison in the South Region of Brazil. Focus group sessions were held and the data were analyzed thematically, resulting in two axes: (a) Barriers for the inclusion of prisoners in the RAS; and (b) Barriers to the inclusion of graduates in the RAS. Even though the basic prison health unit is considered the main gateway for the prison population to the health system, it still needs to be organized to become the ordering of women's health care. Difficulties in accessing these women in extramural health services contribute to the discontinuity of treatment, given the lack of monitoring of this population by the components of the HCN, especially by mental health services. It is necessary to advance in the expansion and optimization of more equitable and comprehensive services, stimulating the integration in the flow management between the primary prison care and the other RAS devices.
Keywords:
prisons; Primary Health Care; Health Care Networks; mental health; gender and health