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Resumo: O presente artigo busca refletir sobre o uso de álcool no capitalismo e seus impactos no tratamento em transplante de fígado, através do prisma materialista-histórico-dialético. Foram realizadas entrevistas com sujeitos que vivenciaram esta realidade, permitindo evidenciar que, na dinâmica capitalista, o adoecimento dos sujeitos, seus enfrentamos e a própria saúde humana são caracterizados ínferos frente ao contraditório ciclo de realização mercantil.
Abstract: This article seeks to reflect through the materialist-historical-dialectical prism on the use of alcohol in capitalism and its impact on treatment in liver transplantation. Interviews were conducted with subjects who experience this reality, allowing evidence that in the capitalist dynamics, the sickness of the subjects, their confrontations and human health itself are characterized as insignificant in the face of the contradictory cycle of mercantile realization.
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The use of appropriate instruments for social assessment in health aims at both the participation of the subject and effectiveness in resolving demands. The objective of this study was to characterize the population assessed by the Validated Social Assessment Instrument and its implications; a descriptive, documental study with participant and dialectical observation. The data survey were taken from the social assessments applied from July 2020 to June 2021 in a transplant center in northwestern São Paulo state in Brazil. Descriptive statistics were performed. The 65 social evaluations of candidates for liver transplantation (LTx) have presented the following sociodemographic characteristics: male sex (n = 47; 72.3%); mean age of 55.05 years (range: 24-75 years old); with a partner (n = 50; 76.9%); low education level (n = 30; 46.2%); and coming from the state of São Paulo (n = 54; 83.1). Of those evaluated, 48 candidates (74%) were professionally inactive and 37 (56.9%) received assistance or social security benefits; 62 (95.4%) had a family caregiver; 61 (93.9%) had a resolutive compliance family response; 57 (87.7%) had facilitated accessibility; 59 (90.8%) met satisfactory housing standards; and 60 (92.3%) had full acceptance for LTx. The 65 candidates' (100%) social opinions were favorable, and 21 (32.3%) had some limitations and required further assistance. All of them received basic and specific social orientations, and 25 (38.5%) required social referrals. The variables have allowed a view at the totality of the social being in addition to widening the subject's participation in order to identify the real demands and facilitate the monitoring of actions, thus contributing for favorable conditions for treatment.