La inserción de los Trabajadores Sociales en los centros de salud de la provincia de Santa Fe. El caso de la ciudad de Rosario (2003-2007)

Abstract

In these “notes” we recover the voices of the fi rst social workers, who began to work in the area of primary care centers under the Ministry of Health of the Province of Santa Fe, particularly in regard to Rosario during the period of 2003-2007. Our starting point is to be able to recognize the expressions of the social question and its possible answers. In this sense, we establish a close relationship between the fl oods in the province of Santa Fe during the afore mentioned period and the hiring of social workers in June of 2003. The Provincial Health Insurance, as a focused program of the Ministry of Health, was the tool that framed the employment relationship of the social workers. We analyzed the particular spaces of the work process, especially looking at some conditions that operated in a way, which triggered the resignation of many colleagues and the continuation of others. Finally, we recovered various strategies of the professional collective that unfolded in the formation of the Provincial Health Social Workers’ Network and organization of the “Health Days” as a prelude to the recognition of these social workers in the professional hierarchy in 2010.