Repercussões do projeto restaurante escola : Santos como oportunidade de carreira e mudança de vida para jovens em situação de vulnerabilidade social

Abstract

Socio-cultural and economic conditions are prominent in the human biological processes of life, directly influencing your health state. Several studies show that populations socially vulnerable have a higher risk to become ill, and in the last decade's efforts have been made to reduce these impacts. However, health is interlinked with several socioeconomic, cultural and environmental conditions. Thus, in order to promote a positive impact on the living population conditions and to reach new perspectives in public health, it is necessary to break the dominant disciplinary models through intersectionality as an effective instrument in health promotion, involving the individual strengthening and to address the multiplicity of health determinants. The promotion must go beyond the normative application since it is not enough to know the functioning of the diseases and find mechanisms for its control. Contemporary to this has the conceptual debate on the social determinants of health (SDH), which shares the view that curative interventions are insufficient to ensure health and quality of life for the population and that effective public policies are a way to ensure the access to health, acting as a tool to reduce social inequities. The main objective of this work is to analyze the repercussions of the Restaurante Escola Project - Santos as a career opportunity and a way to life change and its articulations in health promotion for young people in a situation of social vulnerability. The method used in this analysis consisted of a qualitative case study carried out with 25 project graduates. The data were collected through a semi-structured interview, guided by a script and preceded by the signing a consent form. For the number of participants delimitation, the saturation of the data that were analyzed using the content/statement analysis method was used as a criterion. The conclusions obtained within the dissertation show that the Restaurante Escola social project, besides being a labor qualifier that provides a professional perspective with a high percentage of insertion in the market, mainly exerts an effective initiative in the confrontation of the social vulnerabilities with a significant reduction of the iniquities and aggravating of the SDH.