"Oh, if it's a shitty mosquito!” Dengue and access to health services in a municipality of Buenos Aires
Abstract
National Ministry of Health of Argentina indicated that the worst epidemic of dengue until now occurred during the 2019-2020 period in that country. In order to reflect on the failures in the control and prevention of this disease, our general aim is to understand the meanings and practices about the dengue problem that circulate among health agents and neighbors in a locality in the province of Buenos Aires. Our particular aim is to analyze how the difficulties of access to health services, in the organizational and psycho-socio-cultural dimension in a locality in the province of Buenos Aires, could be linked to the beginning and spread of dengue outbreaks that are observed in the official records. We found problems related to the high demand in public hospitals guards and the obtaining of shifts. We observed the lack of focus control actions and chemical blockades in the houses of people affected by dengue, neighbors that delay in assistance to health services and a meaning about the disease among neighbors as a mild health problem. This meaning is undone by the bodily experience of dengue.
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