Fear when caring: reflections on a permanent education experience in Covid-19 times
Abstract
This article presents an analysis of the actions to support health teams in a small city in the State of Rio de Janeiro in the fight against Covid-19, in a university-municipal partnership. The cartographic approach of the micropolitics of work and health care was the framework that guided the work. Permanent health education workshops were held over the internet, with the healthcare teams and managers of the Primary Care teams, coordinated by the researchers. In these meetings, problem situations were identified and, among them, the fear of being contaminated, of contaminating others, and of dying emerged, negatively interfering with daily work. These fears were mapped, as well as their concrete implications and the potencies and tools to face them; Fear in times of pandemic was discussed, as a weakness and as a power, the recognition of intuition-intelligence and collective practice, as elements for facing difficulties, from which is possible to observe the passage from the state of hope as a noun to hope as verb, or ‘hope-doing’.
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BibTeX
@article{junior2026fear,
title = {{Fear when caring: reflections on a permanent education experience in Covid-19 times}},
author = {Helvo Slomp Junior and Mirani Cristina De Barros and Isabela Barboza da Silva Tavares Amaral and Fernanda Pereira de Paula Freitas and Emerson Elias Merhy and Clarissa Terenzi Seixas},
journal = {Saúde em Debate},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.1590/0103-11042022e127i},
url = {https://hal.science/hal-05751423v1},
note = {CC BY},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Fear when caring: reflections on a permanent education experience in Covid-19 times
AU - Helvo Slomp Junior
AU - Mirani Cristina De Barros
AU - Isabela Barboza da Silva Tavares Amaral
AU - Fernanda Pereira de Paula Freitas
AU - Emerson Elias Merhy
AU - Clarissa Terenzi Seixas
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/16
JO - Saúde em Debate
DO - 10.1590/0103-11042022e127i
UR - https://hal.science/hal-05751423v1
AB - This article presents an analysis of the actions to support health teams in a small city in the State of Rio de Janeiro in the fight against Covid-19, in a university-municipal partnership. The cartographic approach of the micropolitics of work and health care was the framework that guided the work. Permanent health education workshops were held over the internet, with the healthcare teams and managers of the Primary Care teams, coordinated by the researchers. In these meetings, problem situations were identified and, among them, the fear of being contaminated, of contaminating others, and of dying emerged, negatively interfering with daily work. These fears were mapped, as well as their concrete implications and the potencies and tools to face them; Fear in times of pandemic was discussed, as a weakness and as a power, the recognition of intuition-intelligence and collective practice, as elements for facing difficulties, from which is possible to observe the passage from the state of hope as a noun to hope as verb, or ‘hope-doing’.
SN - 0103-1104
SN - 2358-2898
ER -