IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON THE HEALTH OF WOMEN IN PRISON

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18616/inova.v14i3.8073

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic by the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has been one of the greatest health challenges on a global scale this century. In Brazil, the challenges are even greater, due to the transmission characteristics of COVID-19 in a context of great social inequality, with people living in precarious housing and sanitation conditions, without systematic access to water and in crowded conditions. In this context, the need arises to describe the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on a penal establishment in southern Brazil. This work is a retrospective descriptive study with primary quantitative data collection. Aiming to describe the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health of women in prison at the Penitentiária Sul Feminina de Criciúma, a municipality located in Santa Catarina. The results surprised that most women in prison are young people between 18 and 35 years old, the prevalence of COVID-19 in the penal establishment was 18.8%, and all infected women were attended by the Basic Unit of Health Responsible health and most of them were treated with specific drugs used in an “off label” way. In addition, there was one death accounted for, indicating a 1.7% lethality of COVID-19 infection in a penal facility, therefore almost double the lethality in the general population. The impacts of the pandemic due to the coronavirus were extensive all over the world, especially in marginalized social groups and with minorized ethnic-social markers, with women in prison being permeated by several of these modifiable risk factors certain by the social reality, which categorize them as a population at risk for this infection.

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Author Biographies

Gabriela da Rosa, Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense

Nursing student

Carolina Marcos Soratto, Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense

Medical Doctor Intern

Liliane Vanzetto, Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense

Medical Doctor Intern

Maria Laura Geremias, Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense

Medical Doctor Intern

Heloísa Nascimento Lucietti, Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense

Medical Doctor Intern

Ana Lúcia Soares Camargo Fagundes, Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense

family and community physician (M.D). 

Published

2023-07-10