Practices developed by nurses in primary health care in southern Brazil.

Objective: To understand the practices developed by nurses in primary care in southern Brazil.

Method: Qualitative study, with data collection via online interviews, conducted between October 2020 and May 2021, and recorded. 174 nurses from 24 municipalities in southern Brazil participated.

Responding to STI epidemics among young people: a characterization of the language employed in educational materials.

This article aims to characterize the language employed in educational and communications materials about STIs, HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis produced by the Ministry of Health between 2010 and 2019, identifying elements related to health promotion and disease prevention. We conducted an exploratory descriptive study. The materials were selected by performing a systematic search of the Ministry of Health website focusing on the period 2010-2019.

Digital Forms of Commensality in the 21st Century: A Scoping Review.

The social act of eating together has been influenced and mediated by technologies in recent decades. This phenomenon has been investigated in different academic fields, but the topic is still in an incipient dimension, and there is a lack of consensus regarding terminology and definitions. The study aimed to characterize the main scientific findings regarding digital forms of commensality in the 21st century and to identify possible relationships between these practices and public health.

Aedes control: creation, reception and perceptions of public health audiovisual campaigns in different communities of Brazil.

In order to understand the communication strategy adopted by the Ministry of Health to prevent diseases caused by Aedes and to analyze the perception of the community regarding the videos on dengue, chikungunya and Zika aired between 2014 and 2017, a qualitative analysis was performed based on an in-depth interview with a key informant from the Ministry of Health Communication Center and conversation circles with the community in four Brazilian regions. The strategy adopted by the Ministry relies on the Hypodermic Needle Theory due to financial and logistical issues, but the analyzed campaigns did not reach the majority of participants in the circles. The latter consider that the most important information in prevention campaigns is related to care and not possible sequelae, different from what was affirmed by the key informant.

"When a Tihik drinks kaxmuk he neither has a father, nor a mother, or a brother": perceptions of Maxakali on the effects of sugarcane liquor consumption.

This study explores one of the most interesting and least studied issues in Brazil: the consequences of complex and contradictory experiences by replacing the traditional drinks by cachaça, introduced through interethnic contact. Given the rarity of the study of Maxakali alcohol consumption in research, this study aims to understand, from the native's point of view, the negative aftereffect of alcohol consumption. Although anthropological studies emphasize functions of traditional and contemporary drinking as social "lubricants", social perceptions of the Maxakali highlight the problems of cachaça bought through interethnic contact.

Health communication: a study of the profile and structure of municipal communication advisory services in 2014-2015.

Objetivo: to investigate the characteristics of health communication services taking the Municipal Health Department Councils network in Brazil as a basis.

Methods: this was a quantitative study with an exploratory design conducted in 2014-2015, using non-probability sampling. Four structured questionnaires were used examining four dimensions: 1) structure of the communication advisory service work; 2) profile of the professionals working in these services; 3) the main duties of these advisory services, and 4) possible variants of municipalities not having this specialized service.

Integrality in Brazil and Venezuela: similarities and complementarities.

This study aims to compare Primary Health Care (PHC) in Brazil and Venezuela, considering its characteristics as to integrality. It has a qualitative approach, using documental analysis, semi-structured interviews with key informants and field diary notes. We observed the three realms of integrality inherent to the health work process: comprehensive and holistic care, the individual viewed as a complex being with multiple needs, requiring the connection of various health knowledge; continuity of care in institutional micro-policy with interprofessional articulation, in order to consider individual care; continuity of care in macro-policy, when a shift to other levels of care is needed; intersectoriality was also included, when the needs of an individual and community require a cross-sectoral coordination, with action on determinants and conditionants of the health-disease process.

The Mais Médicos (More Doctors) Program: panorama of the scientific output.

Despite the progress achieved by the Primary Health Care and Family Health Strategy in the Unified Health System (SUS) challenges still remain with regard to the universality of access and the quality of services, one of the factors being the unequal distribution of physicians. The Brazilian Government established the Mais Médicos Program (More Doctors Program), in order to move forward in the provision, placement and training of physicians in the SUS. This study consists of a review of the literature of the Mais Médicos Program, in order to map and assess the scientific production on the Program, as well as summarize the findings and present the results of the analysis.

[Health promoting messages posted in Facebook by the health ministries of Brazil and Peru during an AIDS awareness campaign].

Objective: To identify health promoting contents (information that can be transformed into decision-making resources to improve quality of life and the health of individuals or groups) in Facebook postings by the ministries of health in Brazil and Peru.

Methods: This case study compared the messages published in Facebook by the ministries of health from Brazil and Peru during World AIDS Day. Content analysis was employed to identify health promoting contents in the messages posted between November 2013 and February 2014.

[The promotion of health of the Brazilian female and healthy eating: discourses and opinions printed in the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo].

The study identifies the discourse and opinions about women's health in relation to their eating habits by means of qualitative research using the journalistic discourse analysis method of the Folha de São Paulo newspaper. Based on the selection of texts on health, women's health and nutrition published throughout the year 2013, the sample resulted in seven journalistic texts, in which voices from the scientific universe related to research, quotes from journals, scientific associations and the opinion of health professionals and researchers were predominantly identified. However, the discourse of women in general about their health rarely appears in the sample analyzed.

[Community health workers: a health model without walls].

The aim of this commentary is to respond to a published article on Brazil’s family health strategy, in order to clarify some aspects - in particular, the work of community health workers - that make the strategy a unique experience. In the same vein, the authors explore the similarities, differences and peculiarities between Brazil and Québec with regard to the organizational model for primary health care.

[Food and nutrition in the Family Health Strategy in five Brazilian cities].

This work is part of a national study seeking to understand the difficulties and the potential for overcoming the challenges faced in the quest to improve food and nutrition campaigns developed under the aegis of the Family Health Strategy. It is examined from the standpoint of professional teams of the Family Health Strategy and Family Health Support Centers of five major Brazilian cities. A qualitative approach was used to design a multiple case approach and the technique of focus groups was conducted to collect data.