Response to college students' mental health needs: a rapid review.

Objective: To present strategic options to support the adoption of mental health strengthening policies for university students in the field of health, to be implemented by university institutions.

Methods: Rapid review, without period delimitation, with searches carried out from May to June 2020, in 21 sources of bibliographic data, including gray literature. The following keywords were used: mental health, students and university.

A study on the social reproduction conditions of nursing undergraduates of two universities in São Paulo.

Objective: To identify the social reproduction characteristics of nursing undergraduates.

Method: A quantitative descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in two undergraduate degree courses in nursing, one public and one private, in the state of São Paulo.

Results: There were 285 students who participated, with 195 from the public university and 90 from the private one, who answered a questionnaire to classify social reproduction profiles.

Harm reduction: trends being disputed in health policies.

Objective: to identify the underlying harm reduction trends in Brazilian drug policies.

Method: The research, qualitative in nature, used in-depth interviews with experts in the field. The recorded and transcribed material was analyzed via the content analysis method.

Emancipatory drug practices: building projects with Primary Healthcare workers.

Objective: To build projects for implementing emancipatory drug practices with Primary Healthcare workers.

Method: An emancipatory action research based on historical-dialectical materialism developed at the Vila Prudente/Sapopemba Health Technical Supervision of the city of São Paulo with the participation of Primary Healthcare workers (care providers and management).

Results: Seventeen (17) health workers participated in sharing 13 workshops.

Inclusive and emancipatory approaches to occupational therapy practice in substance-use contexts.

Background.: Occupational therapy practice is enhanced through clear understanding of its epistemological foundations. In the area of substance use, practices are strongly functionalist.

Biorevitalizing effect of a novel facial serum containing apple stem cell extract, pro-collagen lipopeptide, creatine, and urea on skin aging signs.

Background: Epithelial regeneration in skin is achieved by the constant turnover and differentiation of keratinocytes. Epidermal and dermal stem cells compartments are fundamental for the continuous renewal of the skin. Adult stem cells are the unique source for skin tissue renewal.

Emancipatory practices of nurses in primary health care: the home visit as an instrument of health needs assessment.

Objective Identify nurses' emancipatory practices in primary care, to contribute to the improvement of health care. Method A case study type social research of qualitative nature, in which nurses of a primary health care service unit in São Paulo were interviewed. Results The home visit was identified as a nursing practice possible to be expanded in order to identify social determinants of health, triggering emancipatory practices in the service.

Evidence in public health: steps to make it real.

This study addresses the methodological trends in the development of systematic reviews in public health, and examines the reviews of the Cochrane Public Health Group in order to exemplify syntheses of evidence in public health and its implementation and impact on practice and research.

Context of the beginning of tobacco use in different social groups.

Objective: analyze contextual aspects of the beginning of tobacco use in different social groups, from everyday representations about the act of smoking.

Methods: five focus groups were conducted to promote discussion about the context of beginning of tobacco use, with groups of people who represented different patterns of social reproduction. The data analysis was based on the theory of social representations, which contextualizes how each group presents the tobacco consumption.

[Marxism as a theoretical and methodological framework in collective health: implications for systematic review and synthesis of evidence].

In this study, we discuss the integration in systematic reviews of research developed from a Marxist perspective of knowledge production and their results as evidence in healthcare. The study objectives are to review the assumptions of dialectical and historical materialism (DHM) and discuss the implications of dialectics for a literature review and the synthesis of evidence. DHM is a powerful framework for knowledge generation and transformation of policies and practices in healthcare.

Representations of everyday life: a proposal for capturing social values from the Marxist perspective of knowledge production.

We propose from the Marxist perspective of the construction of knowledge, a theoretical and methodological framework for understanding social values by capturing everyday representations. We assume that scientific research brings together different dimensions: epistemological, theoretical and methodological that consistently to the other instances, proposes a set of operating procedures and techniques for capturing and analyzing the reality under study in order to expose the investigated object. The study of values reveals the essentiality of the formation of judgments and choices, there are values that reflect the dominant ideology, spanning all social classes, but there are values that reflect class interests, these are not universal, they are formed in relationships and social activities.

Youth map of the city of Santo André, Southeastern Brazil: an instrument to read social inequalities.

Objective: To analyze social inequalities in young adults living in an urban area by mapping sociodemographic and economic data.

Methods: Using data from the 2000 Demographic Census, 57 sociodemographic and economic variables of young adults aged from 15 to 24 years, living in the city of Santo André, Southeastern Brazil, were distributed among 43 areas of statistical data, corresponding to a division of the region into smaller districts. Data from the year 2000 were collected from the Santo André City Hall Department of Socioeconomic Indicators.

The potential of an instrument to identify social vulnerabilities and health needs: collective health knowledge and practices.

Objectives: To analyze an instrument that aims to understand the health-disease process, its potential to identify social vulnerabilities and health needs to enable the most appropriate interventions in a given territory.

Procedures: analysis of the data collection instrument--composed of closed and open questions to identify different profiles of social reproduction (ways of working and living)--used in the Project of Pedagogical Development and activities reported by students at a Collective Health Nursing department.

Conclusions: The instrument enables health care professionals, especially those from Collective Health Nursing, to identify social vulnerabilities and health needs, and guide interventions in different contexts, according to the health promotion perspective.

Proposal to construct the operational base of the educative work process in collective health.

This study aimed to construct the operational base of the educative work in health from a Marxist perspective. Reports of nursing experiences in the basic health services, published between 1988-2003, served as empirical base. The object was captured from: the participants; the action agents; the objective; health and education conceptions; and the generating necessity.

[Nurses' job and its relations to health in the family health program].

The object of this study is nurses' job and its relation to their health in the Family Health Program and objective was to comprehend the characteristics of nurses' job. Sixteen nurses who work in Basic Health Units in São Paulo city were interviewed in 2007. The nurses' ways of working were analyzed according to: working process, subjectivity, polyvalence, consuming and strengthening process.

[Health needs according to civil society and the state].

This study focused on the health needs of a population covered by a primary healthcare center (PHC) in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The overall objective was to investigate the perceived health needs as the object of health work. The study thus identified and analyzed what residents recognize as health needs, as well as what the PHC workers grasp as the object.