Social policies in the COVID-19 pandemic situation: the role of Social Work in the Costa Rican context.

Abstract

The text aims to demonstrate the emerging demands placed by the COVID-19 pandemic in the response of the State, mentioning some strategies used by professionals in Social Work in the Costa Rican social training, immersed in a situation of precariousness of the living conditions of the population since the structural crisis of capital and aggravated in the context of the pandemic. The article was made from the documentary research, using primary sources of information such as news, information from the professional association of Social Work of Costa Rica and public documents with data on the subject. Based on the information collected and the analysis carried out, it is evident how the growing poverty and inequality experienced not only in Costa Rica, but throughout the Latin American region due to their condition as peripheral countries, organically linked to a capitalist production system On a world
scale, it has generated a detriment to the living conditions of the working class, especially poverty, employment, access to health and education. Such conditions are exacerbated in the current context where social work as a profession articulated inherently to mode of production through social policy
and as a profession that directly addresses the manifestations of the social question, has had to devise strategies of care in a context of dismantling of social rights.