Path taken by morbidly obese people in search of bariatric surgery in the public health system

• Main Authors: Claudete Aparecida Conz (Author), Maria Cristina Pinto de Jesus (Author), Estela Kortchmar (Author), Vanessa Augusta Souza Braga (Author), Renata Evangelista Tavares Machado (Author), Miriam Aparecida Barbosa Merighi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo, 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: to understand the path taken in the public health system by people with morbid obesity in the search for bariatric surgery. Method: qualitative research based on the social phenomenology of Alfred Schütz, with 17 hospitalized morbidly obese people, with a scheduled date for bariatric sur...