Demarcação de fronteiras profissionais no campo da saúde

Abstract

This paper recalls the history of various health professions, starting with the origins and reaching the professionalization processes, both in Brazil and worldwide. The overall objective of the study is to analyze emblematic process of demarcation of borders professionals in the health field , occurred in the last decade in Brazil, one known as Ato Médico (Medical Act) and the other as Mais Médicos (More Doctors). Presents the current rules of the boundaries setting game. Identifies the players, divided into individual and collective actors involved, as well as veto players. Identifies the strategies that the actors used in both episodes, in an effort to reach their goals. Shows the results of the games or processes of demarcating boundaries on the healthcare field in Brazil. Conjectures that the liberalization of professional services, within the Mercosur, will face the resistance of the Brazilian physicians. Concludes that the demarcations of professional boundaries are imperfect processes, susceptible to class pressures, that the enlargement of the public sphere in combination with previous studies may have more satisfactory results in relation to the search of a common good.