Abstract

MENDEZ, Claudio; BARRA, Regina  and  PRADINES, Claudia. Quality of Life Perception in Primary Attention Health Personnel. Index Enferm [online]. 2007, vol.16, n.58, pp.31-33. ISSN 1699-5988.

The health staff is in charge to project to the population the challenge and politics of the country’s public health, because of which the knowledge about their quality of life become essential. The concept of quality of life is subjective, which imply different constructions of meanings that can be reflected in the community’s idiosyncrasy. Because of which the objective of this research is reveal the meaning and the importance that they give to their own quality of life. The research is a qualitative study, realized in the health team belong to the Valdivia´s Municipal health department, during the period of July 2004 to October of 2005. The perception about the quality of life among the department staff by means of a semi-structured deep interview. The result shows that the health staff understand quality of life as a felling of well-being and that in the construction of that well-being take part work and familiar situations. It is possible to conclude that the perception and meaning of quality of life in the health team confront the duplicity imposed by the institutionalization and the extreme technological face of de health services that can be translated in a government and private public speech based of the socials constructions.

Keywords : Quality of Life; Health staff; Primary Attention Health.