Violência no Brasil à luz dos relatórios das Conferências Nacionais de Saúde (2000-2019)

Abstract

The collective health places itself as an important field of research about violence, that propose actions of prevention and confrontation of this social determinant of health. The present paper analyzes how diverse expressions of violence have been historically debated and presented in the reports of National Health Conferences (NHC), a privileged space of social participation to the definition of priorities and guidelines of the Policy. For this purpose, a documental analysis of reports from the NHC since the year 2000 has been conducted, when discussions about violence and health were deepened in this public space. The data points to the crescent embedding of the subject presented as one of the main causes of mortality and morbidity in the Brazilian population. In almost all the reports, violence has been raised as a public health problem and progressively incorporating specific themes focusing on violence against women, violence in the context of mental health, and violence against children and adolescents.