Teaching social and human sciences in the collective health undergraduate course: between challenges and opportunities for transgressions
This article discusses the singularities and challenges of teaching social and human sciences in the undergraduate course in collective health, considering these elements through the analysis of a particular course or, better said, the sharing of experiences and impressions of the authors that integrate its academic staff. In the first part of the article, arguments are presented in defense of the emancipatory formation and multi-university knowledge, supported by the dialogue with Boaventura de Souza Santos. It is considered that such perspectives are especially welcome in undergraduate collective health, which has proved...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - July 1, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Social sciences in undergraduate degree in collective health: perspectives of a decade
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Source: Saude e Sociedade - July 1, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Perception of health advisors on pesticides: the role of social participation in a sick society
This study aimed to know the perception of health advisors on pesticides. This is an exploratory study with a qualitative approach, using the focal group technique for data collection and French discourse analysis for the interpretation of results. Two groups were defined with members of three Local Health Councils of Curitiba-PR. In the perception of the groups, pesticide was related to poison, but was also considered an economic necessity. The groups recognize the impact of agrochemicals on health and the environment; however, they point out that their use is necessary to ensure agricultural production. The topic of pest...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - March 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Health maps and the contemporary visibility regime
This article analyzes the articulation between territory, access, and technologies in health. The objective is to analyse the health map based on the relationship between visibility regime and health surveillance technologies. The course of reflection is based on the problematization of the use of the georeferencing in the field of health for the monitoring and surveillance of people circulation flows in urban space as a bio-political strategy. The analysis, therefore, involves the problematization of mapping techniques in the health field to think of forms of population control and regulation as unnatural processes that a...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - March 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Construction and application of a human vulnerability index for climate change in the Brazilian context: the experience of the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Resumo A mudan ça do clima representa séria ameaça para a população humana, causando impactos em diferentes setores. Conhecer os fatores que elevam a vulnerabilidade do ser humano à mudança do clima permite identificar pontos críticos e direcionar ações imediatas para reduzi-la. Assim, este estudo desenv olveu e aplicou um índice de vulnerabilidade à mudança do clima para as microrregiões do Espírito Santo, abarcando os elementos fundamentais da vulnerabilidade - exposição, sensibilidade e capacidade adaptativa. Anomalias climáticas de precipitação e temperatura também foram usadas para e stimar as alt...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - March 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Pharmaceutical services in primary healthcare and the Farmácia Popular Program: the perspective of public administrators from subnational spheres of the Brazilian National Health System
This study aimed to identify the perception of public administrators from pharmaceutical services in subnational spheres, and of technical administrators from collegiate instances of the Brazilian National Health System on the impacts of the Farm ácia Popular do Brasil Program (PFPB - Brazilian Popular Pharmacy Program), an exclusively federal initiative, in the administration of pharmaceutical services in primary health care (AFAB), of the responsibility of the three government levels and operationalized by the municipalities. Municipal, s tate and technical administrators from the National Council of Municipal Health Se...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - March 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Obstacles and coping strategies in renal care: a qualitative study in young people with chronic kidney disease in peritoneal dialysis
This study aims at identifying the obstacles faced by young individuals on peritoneal dialysis treatment, as well as to examine the coping strategies they use in renal care. A qualitative study was carried out from a critical-interpretative approach. Participants were 12 young people with kidney failure, under peritoneal dialysis treatment, who lived in Guadalajara, Mexico. Using a snowball sampling, seven men and five women were selected. The data was obtained through narrative interviews and participant observation, as well as conversations on WhatsApp and Facebook. Content analysis was conducted. In addition to informed...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - March 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Programs for men who have used violence against women: an overview of interventions in Brazil
This article presents a mapping of programs for MPV in Brazil conducted between 2015 and 2016. This is a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive research carried out in two steps. First, we found 41 programs from the five regions of Brazil, of which 26 answered a questionnaire with open and closed questions. We analyzed data according to four categories: program structure, methodology, monitoring and evaluation, and results and challenges. Second, we analyzed other mappings of Brazilian and international programs with MPV, as well as national and international documents that suggest guidelines for their execution. We foun...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - March 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
First-time fathers: demand for support and visibility
Resumo A inser ção do homem nos serviços de saúde vem, timidamente, ocupando espaço nos estudos voltados a paternidade e gênero. Investigou-se o posicionamento de pais de “ primeira viagem ” sobre a possibilidade de assist ência advinda de profissionais da saúde e de suas redes de apoio para exercer a paternidade. Foram entrevistados individualmente 20 homens que acompanhavam a gestação de seus primeiros filhos. Os participantes relataram necessidade de apoio durante a gravidez, principalmente da família e dos am igos e reconhecimento de que a mulher-gestante merece e precisa de mais atenção. Ainda, consi...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - March 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The dom and gift among midwives from Amapá: an ethnographic approach
This article studies the world conceptions and practices of traditional midwives who live and work in Santana (Amap á, Brazil). Based on an ethnographic fieldwork including semi-structured interviews, we present how these women perceive their craft, highlighting the centrality of the category dom and the notion of divine in this universe. We also discuss the symbolic dimension of the relationships established be tween the midwives, the pregnant women and the entity known by them as God. In this regard, the obligations associated to the non-compulsory debts in the giving, receiving and returning cycle, pointed out by most ...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - March 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
“We are the UPA ourselves”: social support networks on the health care for the homeless in a smalltown
Resumo A popula ção em situação de rua (PSR) constitui-se como um público crescente nas cidades, refletindo processos sociais desiguais e excludentes. Entre as barreiras para o acesso aos direitos sociais básicos, destaca-se a negação do direito à saúde a essas pessoas. Poucos estudos buscam conhecer as e stratégias desenvolvidas pela PSR diante da carência de serviços públicos e das barreiras de acesso aos existentes. Diante disso, buscou-se identificar e analisar os itinerários terapêuticos da PSR em um município de pequeno porte. Foi utilizada a triangulação de métodos qualitativos para a coleta de i...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - March 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The territory and implications of urban violence for the work process of community health agents in a primary healthcare unit
In this study we discuss the implications of this phenomenon for the work and the development of the bonds established between the Community Health Agents and the population within a territory. We used a qualitative methodology and theoretical approach of the social representations, aiming at increasing the understanding of how health policies are implemented on the daily routine in the light of interactions, conflicts and decisions that permeate the contacts with the public in the provision of the service. As a result, we emphasize that community violence and its representations interfere in the development of healthcare ...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - March 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
It was better before: the real family health
Resumo Buscou-se avaliar os limites da Estrat égia Saúde da Família (ESF) a partir do cotidiano de trabalho de seus profissionais. Neste estudo qualitativo, realizaram-se entrevistas individuais semiestruturadas com 16 profissionais da equipe de Saúde da Família de um município da região metropolitana de Salvador, Bahia. O exame dos dado s utilizou a análise de conteúdo proposta por Bardin e os referenciais da Política Nacional de Atenção Básica e da Política Nacional de Humanização para Atenção Básica. Identificaram-se duas categorias: a atenção básica (AB) do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) e a coges...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - March 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Brazilian women living in Portugal: work and quality of life
This article is organized around the axes migratory process, work, and quality of life. Two objectives were outlined: characterizing the socio-demographic aspects of Brazilian immigrant women in Portugal; and analyzing their situation and characteristics of work and quality of life. The study started from two working hypotheses: the first on the relation between unemployment and low quality of life; and the second on the relation between high workload and low quality of life of immigrant women. Cross-sectional study conducted from July to September 2016, in Portugal, with 682 Brazilian immigrant women over 18 years of age ...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - March 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Work and worker’s health in the current context: what the European Working Conditions Survey teaches us
This article is a contribution to the ongoing discussion concerning the desirability of a national enquiry in Brazil that would study the relationship between work and worker ’ s health. This enquiry would supply data to bolster social partner ’ s actions in their diverse environments, such as collective bargaining and public policies. Better understanding the determinant factors in the health-sickness process provides essential knowledge for curbing ever increasing work-related suffering, sickness and accidents. One should not only focus on the consequences, but also on the causes of these problems. We based our appro...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - March 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
