Vigilância sanitária em ILPIS: um olhar a partir dos direitos humanos da pessoa idosa

Abstract

This paper intent to conduct a study on the role played by health surveillance in Brazil in regard to the guarantee of human rights of Residents of Long Term Institutions for the Elderly (ILPIs). To this end, we conducted a study approach that combines a historical and social analysis of the rise and development of the ILPs. Later, we studied the participation and the attribution of the main agents involved in their inspection, as well as the structure of health surveillance in ILPIs in Brazil, specially in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. The methodology was developed through consultation and analysis of the literature regarding the subject and the current legislation. From this analysis, it was found that health surveillance plays an important role in the guarantee of human rights to elderly residents in these institutions because it acts as a supervisory organ of the physical and organisational structure of human resources and health conditions of the site. In addition, when they encounter problems related to the violation of human rights, the health surveillance activate the other organs of network protection to the elderly, allowing them access to those instances that work as legal representatives for enforcing rights.