African refugee families: quality of life, needs and expectations regarding health
The objective of this research is to measure their quality of life and to understand the needs and expectations of African refugee families in relation to health. The study was performed in two moments: a quantitative and a qualitative one. Participants responded to the WHOQOL-Bref quality of life scale. A sample family was extracted to compose the structural genogram and to participate in a semi-structured interview with a guiding question. The quantitative analysis was done by descriptive statistics and the discourses obtained were evaluated by the content analysis proposed by Laurence Bardin. Results showed, in the 0 to...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - December 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Barriers to access for interstitial lung diseases care in Colombia
This article aims to explore the perspectives of pulmonologists about the barriers in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with interstitial lung diseases in Colombia. For this purpose, we conducted a qualitative study whose methodological approach was phenomenological. Focus groups were formed with pulmonologists to explore the barriers in access to health services. The data were analyzed using an inductive thematic analysis. The participants expressed the existence of barriers derived from the lack of training in primary care, the lack of integrated services and the scarcity of multidisciplinary discussion groups. Ine...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - December 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Discourses of professionals and adolescents about the access of adolescents to Health Services in Venezuela, 2017
Resumen El objetivo fue analizar los discursos de profesionales y adolescentes sobre los factores que dificultan y potencializan el acceso de esta poblaci ón a los servicios de salud (SS) y los efectos que generan en el alcance de la equidad en un estado de Venezuela. Se realizaron 12 entrevistas con adolescentes y 12 con profesionales, teniendo como base el Análisis Crítico del Discurso (ACD) y la estructura triangular de Thiede, Akweongo y McInty re. Los resultados se estructuraron en tres temas: el poder de los estereotipos y creencias; la ley al margen del derecho a la salud y construyendo prácticas humanizadas. El...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - December 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Navigating the public health services: the experiences of women who live in the periphery of Buenos Aires city
Resumen Con base en datos cualitativos de seis grupos focalizados, realizados durante los a ños 2015 y 2016, con mujeres de 18 a 60 años residentes en un barrio de sectores populares del conurbano norte bonaerense, analizamos las lógicas de utilización y sus experiencias con los servicios de salud públicos. Nos centramos en las barreras que las participantes identifican para acceder a la infraestructura sanitaria pública del barrio (Centro de Salud y postas sanitarias) y en los establecimientos hospitalarios de la localidad, considerando las necesidades, expectativas y demandas de cuidado médico, no sólo curativo,...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - December 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Participating in the analysis, analyzing the participation: methodological aspects of a participatory research-intervention on mental health
This article discusses the articulation between the participants and data analysis according to the methodology in participatory research-intervention linked to the Gaining Autonomy& Medication Management (GAM) approach. For this intervention study, all participants are researchers, which alters the prevailing understanding about how to analyze in a study. We understand that there is a circular relationship between participation and analysis: effective participation depends on the collective achievement of the analysis by all researchers; the analysis allows the identification and transformation of different qualities ...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - December 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Narrative policy in participatory research-intervention
This article is based on two research projects already completed, carried out in Psychosocial Care Centers of inland cities of the state of Rio de Janeiro. We talk about narrativity policy as the production of narratives evidences the necessary legitimation of commonly excluded points of view. Such policy concerns, on the one hand, the operation of intervention groups with users, workers and researchers as spaces for sharing experiences and discussing about medication. On the other hand, it concerns the translation of this dialogue in the form of written texts, related to the research register (memories) and to the restitu...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - December 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Intervention research as research-support: the case of POP RUA
This article discusses the production of knowledge in the field of public health, developing the idea of research-support as a modulation of participatory intervention research in the field of health. Participatory intervention research was used and perfected by Enativos Research Group of Universidade Federal Fluminense, in the scope of Gaining Autonomy& Medication Management (GAM) in the field of mental health. In these experiments, the production of autonomy and the increase of participation in health practices were in question. The issues of the field have ended up modifying their own research practices. This resear...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - December 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Institutional support for the Forum of São Pedro da Aldeia Mental Health Network as a dimension of the Gaining Autonomy & Medication Management research
This article shares an experience of institutional support for a group of workers of a municipality of Regi ão dos Lagos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the period 2011-2014. This experience is the result of the intervention research that implemented and validated the Gaining Autonomy& Medication Management device at the Casar ão da Saúde Psychosocial Care Center, in the municipality of São Pedro da Aldeia. The research stimulated the creation of a forum of workers of the Psychosocial Care Network (Raps) which works as a permanent space for negotiations and collective care of the experience of caring in the Raps. We ar...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - December 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Gaining Autonomy & Medication Management (GAM) as a psychosocial care device in primary care and support to mental health care
This study discusses the construction of devices for the production of psychosocial care, which are based on the proposal of Gaining Autonomy& Medication Management in Primary Health Units in S ão Paulo, where groups were formed based on co-management and sharing of experiences, formed by psychiatric medication users. Workers moderated these groups and attended weekly support workshops for 15 months. This process has given visibility to a complex problematic condition in which the increas ing mass prescription of psychiatric drugs over the years in primary care and the concentration of health responsibility on mental ...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - December 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Gaining Autonomy & Medication Management: methodological innovations in the public health field
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Source: Saude e Sociedade - December 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Errata
Resumo Espa ço social de produção de saberes e práticas, a saúde coletiva (SC) é reconhecida por seus estudiosos como um campo, a partir da acepção de Pierre Bourdieu. O campo científico é um microcosmo social dotado de leis próprias, em que se inserem os agentes e as instituições que produzem/repr oduzem/difundem a ciência. Este ensaio visa propor, a partir da obra Homo academicus, de Bourdieu, um conjunto de indicadores para uma matriz de análise da distribuição de capitais de prestígio, notoriedade e poder universitário no campo científico da SC brasileira. Adaptamos os indicadores l evando em conta ...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - October 8, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Scientific capital in public health: an analysis inspired by Homo academicus and its sources
Resumo Espa ço social de produção de saberes e práticas, a saúde coletiva (SC) é reconhecida por seus estudiosos como um campo, a partir da acepção de Pierre Bourdieu. O campo científico é um microcosmo social dotado de leis próprias, em que se inserem os agentes e as instituições que produzem/repr oduzem/difundem a ciência. Este ensaio visa propor, a partir da obra Homo academicus, de Bourdieu, um conjunto de indicadores para uma matriz de análise da distribuição de capitais de prestígio, notoriedade e poder universitário no campo científico da SC brasileira. Adaptamos os indicadores l evando em conta ...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - October 8, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Expressions of precariousness in the work of community health agents: bureaucratization and estrangement of the work
Resumo O artigo analisa express ões da precarização do trabalho dos agentes comunitários de saúde (ACS) relacionando-as com o processo de reestruturação produtiva e de intensificação da precarização social do trabalho. Também é parte de pesquisa de doutorado concluída e fundamenta-se no materialismo histórico dialé tico. Entre os anos 2013-2017 realizaram-se 20 entrevistas e aplicou-se questionário a 105 dirigentes sindicais e de associações de ACS de todas as regiões do Brasil. A burocratização e o estranhamento do trabalho foram categorias empíricas identificadas; há transformações no processo e...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - October 8, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Diary as a device in multicenter research
This article is linked with a multicenter study conducted from 2013 to 2015 in four different scenarios or cities: S ão Paulo, Campinas, Ribeirão Preto, and Recife. It aims to present the use of Research Diary (RD) as a device of the Institutional Analysis, which made it possible to explore different dimensions of experiences of diary researchers and restore the analysis of the implications that have occurred in the movements provoked in and through the experiences of this multicenter project. The use of research diary in fieldworks was common practice among project team members. The production of records as diaries, fr...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - October 8, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Therapeutic use of cannabidiol: the lawsuit in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil
The objective of this interdisciplinary research was precisely in this aspect, which was to analyze the constitutive exterior of the problem of access to the referred drug. For that, a documentary and exploratory research was performed, using the qualitative approach, in addition to the bibliographic review. The case study was carried out with the Judicial Processes of the Court of Justice of Pernambuco (TJ/PE) on the subject, located from the grouped insertion of the keywords “ supply ” and “ Cannabidiol ” in the field “ jurisprudence ” of the virtual site of this Court. As a result, it was found that indiv...
Source: Saude e Sociedade - October 8, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
