Youth and adolescent population represents a critical part of the global population. Its importance for a development agenda is not due to the quantity, but to other types of problems that favour the intergenerational reproduction of poverty and cons...
This article is based on a doctoral research and aims to understand and give visibility to forms of social participation of young people living in a peripheral community located on the coast of the state of São Paulo. It also tries to think about th...
This paper presents an analysis of the symbolic conditions which govern health care provision in the Scottish prison system. The paper considers the wider context of Scottish prisons, health care provision follows a similar structure both in juvenil...
Social networks, especially those articulating services of social policies, are responsible for encouraging the increase of effectiveness of those actions, being able to promote social support to the population and they must be performed by public ad...
In public health, blogs as tools of communication and dissemination of data have been widely used since the mid-2010. This study aimed to describe the implementation of the blog tool by the Family Health Teams (FHT) of the municipality of Rio de Jane...
In the institutional context of the health system, it is important to note that the relationship between the public and private sectors occurs mainly in the execution of medium complexity health services, especially in smaller municipalities. Thus, t...
Patient s associations are an example of biossocial groups, since its formation is motivated by common biological characteristics, such as rare diseases, and sometimes are included in social movements in health. Even though a national policy geared t...
This study aims to understand how online communities can contribute to increase the adherence of chronic patients to the treatment prescribed by the physician in Brazil. For this purpose, we applied the netnography method to analyse the community Dia...
