Salud comunitaria, la experiencia de salud trans en el Servicio de Salud Talcahuano

Abstract

Quality health care is not guaranteed for trans people in our country. Thus, the experience of Talcahuano's Health Service, in which the trans community works with the institutionality, is regarded as important and pioneer in Chile. The main goal of this investigation was to describe the work of Talcahuano's Health Service's Trans Participation Roundtable. Qualitative approach was used, with Grounded Theory. Data recollection was done through semi-structured interviews with professionals and community members of Talcahuano's Health Service's Trans Work-Table. Two main categories were identified, which are the "Need for depathologization and good treatment" and "Dialogue and Social Participation". The former leads to the latter. The main results indicate that the collaborative work between community and institution, the commitment of the professionals and the community members, and the support of headships is key to answer the detected need. This kind of work must be replicated in other health services of our country, in order to guarantee the health care for trans people