Population in street situation in times of covid-19pandemic: public health policies in a capital of the amazon region
International Journal of Development Research
Population in street situation in times of covid-19pandemic: public health policies in a capital of the amazon region
Received 07th January, 2022; Received in revised form 13th January, 2022; Accepted 11th February, 2022; Published online 28th March, 2022
Copyright © 2022, Kleber Luiz da Fonseca Azevedo and Eudes Euler de Souza Lucena. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
It is estimated that 221,869 people are unassisted by public authorities and homeless in Brazil. Discriminated, invisible and in increased exposure to risks of accidents and diseases. The emergence of Covid-19 impacted on increased unemployment, forcing entire families to live on the streets, explaining the need for the government to act through emergency policies and measures to ensure protection. This study guides the support provided for the homeless population, in the field of public health, the importance of developing studies aimed at reducing risks, humanized assistance to vulnerable populations and reaffirmation of safe strategies for prevention of Covid-19. Public actions were analyzed to support homeless people during the Covid-19 pandemic in a capital of the Amazon region, presenting measures that can contribute to the strategies already carried out with the homeless population. This is a documentary, exploratory research of qualitative nature, whose data, from city hall sites and local and national newspapers, were processed through Bardin Content Analysis. The analyses confirm that the city acted to minimize the vulnerable of the homeless population.
