[A comprehensive community model to prevent and address adolescent health problems].

This article presents a model for building a comprehensive community response to adolescent health problems. The approach is comprehensive in that it includes prevention and promotion, assistance and protection, and involves different sectors and areas of the State and the community. We describe the conceptual framework and principles of the model, developed based on debates regarding health promotion and collective health as well as the work experiences of the research team in different communities in Argentina over the last 15 years.

[A comprehensive community approach to problematic drug use: building a model].

Guidelines for a model of a community approach to problematic drug use are presented. These guidelines include the dimensions of comprehensiveness, social vulnerability, and care practices and knowledge in a broad sense. The characterization of these dimensions leads to what the authors call a comprehensive community model in contrast to a normative moral model.

Doing gender in a toxic world. Women and freebase cocaine in the city of Buenos Aires (Argentina).

Consumption of freebase cocaine in Argentina has been investigated among males but not females. This qualitative study focuses on the complexity of relationships between gender identity and the use of drugs, investigating freebase cocaine as an example in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In-depth interviews were conducted with female consumers in 2010.