Access to health and social protection policies by homeless people during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods case study on tailored inter-sector care during a health emergency.

Introduction: The article analyzed homeless people's (HP) access to health and social protection policies and tailored inter-sector care, including emergency measures, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Belo Horizonte (BH), capital of Minas Gerais state, Brazil. It intended to provide data on HP and evaluate existing public policies focused on vulnerable populations during this health emergency.

Methods: The study adopted a mixed-methods design with triangulation of quantitative and qualitative data.

[The interface between public policies for the unhoused population: an integrative review].

The heterogeneous and vulnerable nature of the unhoused population reveal the complexity of living on the street and call for the State to play a fundamental role in the provision of health and social care policies. The scope of this study was to evaluate the intersectorality between health policies, social protection and organized civil society actions for the unhoused population in Brazil, based on an integrative literature review. To achieve this, a search was conducted in the SciELO, LILACS and PubMed databases, from which ten articles published between 2004-2021, all of a qualitative nature, were selected.

[Social representations of municipal health counselors on health surveillance].

The objective of this study is to describe and analyze the social representations of the Health Counselors of the city of Belo Horizonte regarding their experiences with health surveillance. The research used the interview technique based on a semi-structured script. The data obtained were analyzed using the Collective Subject Discourse technique.

[Social control in the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS): discourse, action and reaction].

This article seeks to describe and analyze the dynamics of social participation, from the standpoint of the social representations of the City Health Councillors of Belo Horizonte on the significance of social control. A methodological approach was used, backed by qualitative research techniques: semi-structured interviews and participant observation. Three years after the survey, documentary research was conducted to check for signs of institutional reaction seeking to minimize or even to overcome the difficulties reported.