Male reproductive and sexual health in Francisco Morato: the discourse of health professionals, managers and administrators

Abstract

This paper aims to show the situation of the male reproductive and sexual healthcare in the municipality of Francisco Morato in 2004, based on the discourse of health professionals, health managers and public health administrators. The participants in the investigation were eight health professionals, five health managers and three public health administrators. Interviews were used for data collection and thematic analysis was employed for data interpretation. We showed that, following the general trend of Brazilian public health actions, sterilization and sexual and reproductive health counseling used to be based on a biomedical viewpoint. Nevertheless, there are isolated care initiatives grounded on the intuitive notion that men and women are different in their search for healthcare services. The implementation of collective spaces and the strengthening of these spaces for the discussion of reproductive and sexual health are, therefore, proposed. In addition to that, it is stated in this paper that there is the need of formulation and implementation of further political proposals which take into account the different aspects involving morbidity and mortality in the municipality.