Doença renal crônica: uma análise dos determinantes sociais em saúde

Abstract

Objective: to analyze the perception of people with chronic kidney disease about the health and disease process from the perspective of social determinants of health. Methods: this is a research with a dialectical, qualitative approach, developed in Distrito Federal – DF in a Public Hospital with a sample of 20 patients undergoing renal replacement treatment of hemodialysis. Results: we found that the social, economic, biological and cultural factors that involve the health-disease process of patients with CKD are not perceived by them as a conditioning factor of the illness process, although these present the material bases as social and health problems. Conclusion: social inequalities are not only conditioning factors of the illness process, but are also part of the determinants of this process.