title: Methodological contributions towards the study of health care production: lessons from a research study on barriers and access in mental health.
abstract: This article presents methodological contributions and a conceptual innovation for thinking about the production of health care, stemming from a study on access and barriers in mental health carried out in the municipality of Campinas (São Paulo, Brazil). The study used a cartographic approach and, after an initial identification of the most complex cases (on the part of the teams of workers), adopted the users as guides to explore the different levels of production of their lives and to evaluate the possibility of forming a network of existential connections that produce life as a fundamental analyzer of access or barriers to care.
authors.affiliation: PhD in Collective Health. Tenured Profesor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. emerson.merhy@gmail.com
authors.forename: Emerson Elias
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Merhy
authors.affiliation: Physician. PhD in Collective Health. Professor, Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Researcher, Clinical Medicine Department, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil.
authors.forename: Laura Camargo Macruz
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Feuerwerker
authors.affiliation: Historian. PhD in History of Culture. Visiting Professor, Art Institute Graduate Program, Universidade Estadual de São Paulo (UNESP).
authors.forename: Erminia
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Silva
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D062305:Geographic Mapping; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*
keywords: Health Services Accessibility; Mental Health; Cartography