The use of individual tracking programs in public health: a bioethics dilemma.

Objective: to understand the bioethical perspectives on mobile tracking device use.

Methods: theoretical study based on action research, carried out with eight graduate students from a public university. A focus group was used, with a thematic content analysis methodology with a codebook structure, approved by the Research Ethics Committee.

Working conditions and mental health of community health workers in the COVID-19 pandemic.

This study examined the prevalence of anxiety and depression associated with Community Health Workers' (CHWs') working conditions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-sectional study was carried out in the north of Minas Gerais, Brazil by applying a questionnaire addressing sociodemographic conditions, command of technologies and working conditions during the pandemic, as well as the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and the Patient Health Questionnare-9 (PHQ-9). Descriptive and multiple Poisson regression analyses were performed with robust variance, to a 5% level of significance (p < 0.

[Work context and the occupational health cost for community health workers].

The scope of this study was to evaluate the work context and the occupational health cost among Community Health Workers (CHWs). It is a cross-sectional, census study, using a socioeconomic questionnaire, the Work Context Assessment Scale (WCAS) and the Human Cost at Work Scale (HCWS), which make up the Inventory of Work and Illness Risk (IWIR). Descriptive analyses of mean factor scores were performed and comparison of means between items and sociodemographic characteristics of the group, through Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis's tests with a 5% significance level.