(Un) care to men's health in a prison context: does prison in Brazil build visibility barriers?

Abstract

The aim was to analyze, through bibliographic surveys, the health care provided to men deprived of their liberty. This is a systematic review using the Virtual Health Library (VHL) database platform. These are articles used to compose this through the descriptors: deprivation of liberty, prison, prisoner, health and prison, between the periods of 2010 to 2020, articles that did not approach the male population deprived of liberty as a research source were discarded. Through the synthesis of the results, it was possible to verify the absence of health professionals in male prisons in São Paulo, high rates of contamination of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and psychological disorders such as depression. It is concluded that primary care and the multidisciplinary team are extremely important for the prevention of diseases and health promotion, however, the ineffectiveness of existing public policies aimed at people deprived of liberty is noted.