Care in socially vulnerabilized territory and the COVID-19: intersectionality and emic dynamics on care ethics

Abstract

Abstract The aim of this study is to understand care, before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, in a vulnerabilized territory, considering intersectionality, care ethics and the emic dynamics. The method was qualitative research. The subjects were community leaders, and health professionals of Primary Health Care at the Family Health Unit (USF) of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS). Challenges and Potentialities in care were identified. Care went within, against and beyond the State in a decolonial way. Politicization and public policies’ improvement of care are understood as coping with the pandemic.