Actions for health advocacy and user empowerment by nurses of the Family Health Strategy.

Objective: To understand the actions for health advocacy and user empowerment developed by nurses of the Family Health Strategy in Brazil.

Method: A qualitative study carried out with nurses working in the Family Health Strategy in a city in the South of Brazil. Participants were selected by non-probabilistic, snowball sampling.

Domestic violence against women: representations of health professionals.

Objective: to analyze the representations about domestic violence against women, among health professionals of Family Health Units.

Method: qualitative study based on the Theory of Social Representations. Data were collected by means of evocations and interviews, treating them in the Ensemble de Programmes Pemettant L'Analyse des Evocations software - EVOC and content analysis.