Os direitos à saúde e à educação de meninos e meninas : uma análise sobre a medicalização infantil e o transtorno de deficit de atenção e hiperatividade com base no Programa Saúde na Escola em Santa Maria RS.

Abstract

This thesis, linked to UNISC's Post-Graduate Program in Law and PhD, focuses on social demands and public policies, with the thematic axis of diversity and public policies, have their research problem, on the objectives of the Health in School Program, in view of the social phenomenon of child medicalization with a focus on methylphenidate, that is, if current PSE guidelines include these social changes on mental health, specifically Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, ADHD, related to medicalization of children between 6 and 12 years? The research was anchored doctrinally and legally in the rights to health and education of children and adolescents, in view of the Theory of Integral Protection, having as legal frameworks the Federal Constitution of 1988 and the Statute of the Child and the Adolescent. Methodologically, the research was structured by the analytical procedure together with the statistic, by tabular, at the end, data collected. Of bibliographic nature, the research techniques will be based on primary and secondary sources, finally contact with an exploratory quantitative field research in order to map the situation of children and the medicalization of children by the eyes of teachers and doctors linked to the municipal network of education and health in the Municipality of Santa Maria, between the time span of 2018 and 2019. In view of this, it is proposed an adequacy in the way of understanding the learning process with neuroeducation and also a greater and deeper integration between health and education in order to safeguard, protect and promote such rights for children and adolescents.