Confronting domestic violence in the covid-19 pandemic in a São Paulo municipality: implementing strategies and health system resilience

Abstract

The article discusses aspects of violence against women in the domestic and familiar space, during the covid-19 pandemic (2020).
We analize the strategies organized by a municipality in São Paulo metropolitan region to fight violence against women during the covid- 19 pandemic. This case study, with a mixed approach, presents an analysis of quantitative and qualitative data, from database and interviews with key actors carried out from September to November 2030. From the thematic categories found it is understood the need to strengthen the network for coping with violence against women in the municipality. The results indicate adopted strategies that denote the effort and resilience of the health system. The pandemic aggravated an already complex reality and the municipality elaborates the aggravation of the problem involving intersectoral segments of administration structure and the topic gained priority during the pandemic.