Voltando para casa

When we return home

The movement of coming back home has this feeling of shelter and care. An affection image that touches us like the photographs that register the Back Home Program, which, since 2003, has given law powers to this important step in the Brazilian psychiatric reform. Affection-image, movement-image, the mental health topic acquires, thus, all its consistency between clinic, politics and aesthetics.

(...) Replacing asylums, refusing attention practices grounded on the disrespect for the rights of users,
fomenting protagonism, autonomy and co-responsibility from managers, workers, users and the social network is a humanization task of SUS. A more human SUS is a SUS that recognizes the other as a legitimate citizen of right, valuing the different subjects involved in the health production processes. We place our bets in the renovation of the attention and management models of SUS.(...)

Eduardo Passos
Política Nacional de Humanização do SUS
HumanizaSUS