Social Development

In the work with infantile patients, some referring concepts to the humanizao of the hospital environment must be considered. They are necessary efforts stops to diminish the physical and psychic suffering of the hospitalized child, considering that this is a being closely dependent of another being, that at that moment, also suffers with the appearance of the disease. This can be seen as an attack to the organism as a whole, also in the emotional aspect, that is sufficiently engaged. must therefore – be attempted against for some factors of the hospitalization situation, rethink attendance models that aim at the minimizao of the suffering of the hospitalized child, having as principle the promotion of the health. I officiate of the clown says it of the effort the man of if delivering to the only possible condition of existence: of the relation the human being. It reconnects in them to this potentiality and the essence of the medicine, this fascinating universe for which walks our imaginary on life and death, for where they circulate affection and desires printed matters in the bodies. Space where the directions of the look, to hear and to touch make to circulate these events.

The humanizao in the health institutions it constitutes, throughout years, a successful partnership between artists and professionals of the health, stimulating important alterations in relation ace hospitalized children: positive change in the behavior, greater contribution with examinations and treatments, improves in the communication, reduction of the anxiety with the internment and eventual surgical interventions. To evaluate the repercussion of ' ' palhao' ' in the hospital environment, ' ' Doctors of alegria' ' in partner with the Institute Source for the Social Development they had carried through in 2007 and 2008 qualitative and quantitative research next to professionals of health in hospitals of So Paulo and Rio De Janeiro. According to given of this research 85.4% of the children they present clinical evidences of improvement after to receive the visit from the clowns, in relation to the health professionals, 49.5% of the team are coesa and 45.8% opened space in the team to say itself of delicate and sensible questions.