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WHAT CAN HEALTH PSYCHOLOGT UNDER THE "ONTOLOGICAL TURN" CONTRIBUTE TO RESEARCH ON BASICO SANITATION IN RURAL AREAS?

Health Psychology under “ontological turn”; Public policy; Basic sanitation

Readers will find here a Psychology of Health put to the test. Or rather, open to the exercise of decentralization of human well-being. It is a more democratic Health Psychology in terms of understanding what matters, interactions, affections and the construction of a “common”, which has nothing to do with the struggle for equality among men (human rights) in a situation given. Based on the analysis of basic sanitation policies in rural areas, more precisely in the southwest of Bahia, the aim is to launch Health Psychology into the worldwide movement of the “ontological turn”, which is configured as a critique of the method used in modern science of the separation between nature x culture, subject x object, and in the case of human sciences, the centrality of analyzes in human protagonism. It starts from the question: What can Health Psychology under the “ontological turn” contribute to research on basic sanitation in rural areas? And it concludes that another Psychology of Health is possible: open to the decentralization of the human, or if you prefer, to a (re)composition of its object. This dissertation is part of research line 1: Clinical Practices and Mental Health and has as a technical product an technical video for managers of basic sanitation programs. It was approved by the Ethics Committee in Research for Human Beings of the Multidisciplinary Institute in Health of the Federal University of Bahia (CEP-IMS/UFBA), via Plataforma Brasil, under opinion number 5,826,940.