Working conditions of social workers in the health system and psychosocial repercussions
This article discusses aspects of the work conditions and the psychosocial repercussions of social workers enrolled in the Brazilian National Health System (SUS). This research was performed through a qualitative-quantitative investigation involving both the nationwide application of questionnaires and individual interviews and focus groups with social workers employed in SUS ’ three levels of complexity. A total of 295 social workers answered the questionnaire in the country, 53,3% of which in the state of S ão Paulo. Main findings suggest that the social workers, despite most of them being public servers and working ...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - March 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Teacher malaise, suffering and sickness: from narratives of teacher work and culture to teaching as a profession
This study aims to present a critical analysis of teacher malaise, suffering and sickness related to the history of the teaching work, the ways of acting in this occupation, and the culture of teaching. The methodology involved a narrative literature review of 12 selected publications to identify the main aspects attributed to epidemiological issues, naturalization of the problem in teaching, public policies, teaching work organization and professional identity. The discussion seeks to highlight the forms of visibility and invisibility of this issue in the social and educational scenario in Brazil, with a focus on teacher ...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - March 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Trans bodies: an essay on norms, singularities and political happening
Resumo Este ensaio pretende refletir sobre como a sexualidade tem sido circunscrita por alguns campos do conhecimento, sobretudo aqueles ligados à medicina, e como isso nos afeta no contexto social atual. Partindo do pressuposto de que estamos imersos em uma rede de dispositivos que se constituem como condição de nossa própria existência, examinamos especialmente as experiências relacionadas aos gêneros e às sexualidades que escapam do enquadramento normativo habitual, buscando localizar suas dimensões políticas a partir de alguns elementos extraídos das elaborações do psicanalista Jacques Lacan e dos filósof...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - March 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Benzodiazepines in the order of discourses: from object of science to gadget object of capitalism
This study aims to analyze the phenomenon of benzodiazepine abuse, considering the way this substance appears in discourses constituted in approaching the lack of well-being in the contemporary world. This is a descriptive research of qualitative nature. Eighteen physicians and nurses working in the health network of Fortaleza were heard, in addition to nine female users of these services. The user population was restricted to females due to the literature underlining a prevalence of benzodiazepine abuse in this public. Data analysis using French discourse analysis showed how the drug affects the social bond, presenting di...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - March 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Biomedicalization of times: therapies, biosocialities and daily cares in children with ASD diagnostic in Buenos Aires
Resumen Se analiza la incidencia del diagn óstico de Trastorno del Espectro Autista (TEA) sobre la percepción y organización del tiempo en la vida cotidiana, de parte de las familias, y en especial las madres de niños y niñas diagnosticados por TEA (NNDxTEA). Los resultados surgen de dos investigaciones de posgrado. La metodología es c ualitativa, reconstruye las historias de vida de cuatro madres que durante 2015 acompañaron a sus NNDxTEA a un Centro Terapéutico en la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Se consideran dos líneas. Primera, la medicalización y biomedicalización como procesos de anillados concén...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - March 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
ADHD and Gender: subjective experiences of children in Chile
Abstract Although research on ADHD has tended to ignore gender differentials, recent contributions produced mainly from epidemiology have revealed that this diagnostic category seems to be strongly related to gender. However, these contributions seem to limit their scope to the study of the symptoms as well as cognitive, affective and social functioning of children, leaving aside subjective aspects associated with the ADHD practices of diagnosis and treatment. Thus, this article aims to explore how the gender dimension crosses the subjective experience of children diagnosed with ADHD. Based on open interviews conducted wit...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - March 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The multiple meanings of ADHD: between deficit, disruption and hidden potential
Abstract The purpose of this article is to describe the subjective experience of the diagnosis of Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and the cultural meanings that shape this experience. Based on interviews and discussion groups with diagnosed people and their families in Chile and France, this article show that ADHD can acquire multiple meanings. From a thematic analysis, we identified three registers or ways of living and thinking about ADHD. In the deficit register, the disorder is experienced primarily as a failure of certain abilities. In the disruption register, the disorder is experienced as disrupt...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - March 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Rethinking medicalization: discursive positions of children and their caregivers on the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD in Chile
Abstract The debates around the diagnosis and pharmacological treatment of Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) have traditionally been approached from the perspective of the “ medicalization processes ” of children ’ s behaviour. However, this perspective tends to overlook the meanings of diagnosis and treatment of ADHD for children and their caregivers. The purpose of this article is to describe the discursive positions of children and their caregivers on the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD. In-depth interviews were conducted with seven Chilean children and their caregivers. The material was analyse...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - March 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Against the tide: psychodynamic approaches to agitated childhood in France, between crisis and resistance
Abstract Is psychoanalysis in crisis? This theme turned out to be recurrent in the comments of professionals working with a psychoanalytical orientation that we encountered during a collective survey on the trajectories of children considered as agitated in France. During this research, we conducted interviews with children and their families, with professionals working in care centres, schools and public administration; we also conducted observations and collected data in care centres. In these places, we observed a diversity of practices, but a clear majority of which claimed to be more or less strictly psychoanalytical ...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - March 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Problematic, disturbing and non-conforming children’s behaviors: the concepts and care demands related to agitation in children in Santos and Campinas, Brazil
This article discusses the social consequences of the impossibility of specifically defining the boundaries of the concept of mental disorder, which seems to be a “ vague ” term with no satisfactory definition, especially when referred to children ’ s behaviors. We argue that when discussing children ’ s problematic, disturbing or non-conforming behaviors it is necessary to understand how these concepts are related to the classificatory categories of children ’ s behaviors and presented as care demands, whether in common sense or in biomedical discourses. Data were collected in qualitative research developed in ...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - March 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Presentation - Concepts, trajectories, and approaches to “agitation” and “non-conforming children”: social and cultural experiences in Brazil, Chile and France
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Source: Saude e Sociedade - March 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Human-animal relationship and leishmaniasis: repercussions in the daily routine of individuals inserted in an endemic region
Resumo No contexto das zoonoses, a premissa de que o c ão é considerado pelos órgãos de saúde pública como um dos componentes da complexa cadeia de transmissão das leishmanioses (sendo recomendada sua eutanásia e, a partir de 2016, o tratamento com medicação específica se os cães forem diagnosticados com essa enfermidade), está permeada de conflitos, especialmente devido ao espaço que tais animais gradativamente ocupam na vida dos seres humanos, sendo até considerados como substitutos de filhos e constituindo o que vem sendo denominado de “ fam ília multiespécie ” . Neste artigo analisamos a rela ção...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - January 7, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Territoriality, local development, and health promotion: a case study in a historical village of Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil
This study aims at identifying and analyzing actions concerning local development of the village of Paranapiacaba, located in the municipality of Santo Andr é, São Paulo, Brazil, and the ways in which the local inhabitants were inserted in these processes, verifying to what extent these actions strengthened the territoriality and health promotion. The qualitative method employed used as instruments the documentary analysis and oral history. The subjec ts were adults of both sexes indicated by the snowball sampling technique. The main results showed that the educational and social inclusion processes promoted by the publi...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - January 7, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Conceptions on childbirth humanization in Brazilian theses and dissertations
Resumo Este artigo analisa as concep ções de humanização do parto e nascimento presentes nas teses e dissertações brasileiras, expondo de que modo essas concepções estão vinculadas à defesa de um novo modelo de assistência em oposição às práticas da obstetrícia moderna preponderantes no país. São estudadas quatro diss ertações e sete teses, apresentadas de 1997 a 2012, representativas dos principais centros de pesquisa sobre o tema e realizadas por pesquisadoras com trajetória acadêmica e profissional vinculada à história da humanização do parto e nascimento no Brasil. A análise descreve os difer...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - January 7, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The role of family in treatment plans and pediatric inpatient care in complex chronic health conditions
This article examines the family ’ s role and the interaction with professionals when developing treatment plan and providing care for children with complex chronic health conditions in a pediatric unit of medium and high complexity, reference hospital in Rio de Janeiro state. Through a qualitative research, participant observation and interviews with patient ’ s mothers and managers analyzed based on the French psychosociology were performed. The results point out limits in the inclusion of family members in decisions and directions of treatment. Among the professionals, we found different attitudes, in which communic...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - January 7, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
