Abstract: The article intends to discuss Brazilian trade union practices with respect to worker’s health care provided by public system and by private health insurance. Some thesis about the subject discussed by Public Health specialists are evalua...
ABSTRACT An exploratory, descriptive and qualitative research was performed at the Dentistry Faculty of the Federal University of Santa Catarina State, Brazil, aiming to identify and analyze the ethical problems involved in the patient attendance ...
Abstract: Medicines are considered the main therapeutical tool for recovery or maintenance population health conditions. However, the symbolism with that they are coated and consequently their use for the society has contributed for the sprouting of...
Abstract: The paper presents a discussion about the experience of building a risk map by workers in a public hospital, in Rio de Janeiro city, resting on concepts of occupational health surveillance, total quality and biosafety. It goes from the firs...
Abstract This article shows that the model of body offered by the different versions of social constructivism has an astonishing affinity with the body in the biotechnologies. For both discourses, that of the social constructivism and of the technob...
The present study is an epidemiological work of the transversal type, with the objective of describing characteristics of social support and identifying associations between socio-demographic variables and categories of social support, in the rural p...
ABSTRACT Analyzing and understanding people’s conceptions and actions regarding back pain is relevant since they can be part of the disease´s explanation and cure. The nature of this study is qualitative with an anthropological focus. It wa...
This study analyzes the participation of a popular movement in Health Councils institutional spaces and its relation with the executive power. It discusses how this participation happens, since quantitative presence as legal requirement for parity do...
