When dissident bodies proclaim their places as dissonant bodies.

This essay aims to present the concept of dissonant bodies and give visibility to these bodies in the field of public health from anti-colonial and queer perspectives. These bodies are often considered dissidents. Their existence is considered abject, disposable, and marginalized by neoliberal and necropolitical society.

[The street as a space for care production: the singular therapeutic project and tuberculosis management in people experiencing homelessness during the Covid-19 pandemic in the city of Rio de Janeiro].

From the theoretical perspective of the cartography of the micropolitics of living labor in action, the objective was to analyze the work process of the "street clinic" team based in a primary care unit in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the management of tuberculosis cases in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is an exploratory qualitative research. Between May and December 2021, seven professionals from the street clinic team were interviewed, and participant observation was conducted with field diary records.

[Continuing education practices in primary health care for addressing users with tuberculosis].

Interruption of tuberculosis treatment constitutes one of the obstacles to disease control. The standards established in health policies, at times, prove to be inflexible, tending to obscure the difficulties experienced by individuals in treatment. The aim of this article is to analyze the practices of continuous health education developed by family health teams at healthcare units in Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in cases of tuberculosis treatment interruption.

The production of the common as a care strategy for complex users: a cartography with homeless women.

This paper discusses the low power of traditional care offers for so-called complex users in the health sector. It aims to show, from the narratives of two guiding-users, that professionals, services, and policies disregard the multiple singularities involved in the care and attempt to overlap their knowledge in asymmetrical relationships. They are often put at stake in their ability to generate interesting and more life-producing offers.

[Work process in Family Health Program: the potential of subjectivity of care for reconfiguration of the care model].

This is a study with a qualitative approach that aims to analyze the subjective dimension of the Family Health teams' practices conducted in order to reconfigure the care model, using the work process in health as the fundamental analytical category from the Marxist standpoint. The data gathering tool used was the focus group, applied in 13 Family Health teams in Maceió, Alagoas. Thematic analysis combined with principles of hermeneutics and dialectics was used for treatment and interpretation of the data.

[Integrality in the health care perspective: an experience of the Unified Health System in Brazil].

Starting with a discussion of the biomedical model and its implications in the shaping of healthcare professionals and health practices, this article analyzes the concept of integrality as associated with the Unified Health System (SUS) [Sistema Único de Salud] in Brazil. Particular attention is paid to the disputes regarding the meaning of integrality and the ways of putting the concept into practice in everyday health care work. Based in a research study conducted at the national level, the authors suggest two aspects crucial to fostering integrality: an ethical-political project founded in the recognition that other people's lives are worthwhile and enriching; as well as the existence of additional spaces conducive to discovering diverse ways of producing life, in which integrality in health care is also possible and powerful.

Life stories, homeopathy and permanent education: construction of shared healthcare.

Taking its inspiration from the homeopathic method of collecting data, and acting in a context of permanent education in health, this study aimed to analyze the possibilities that can be offered for healthcare by construction of Life Histories, in organized encounters for collective elaboration of shared therapeutic projects. Some changes that arose from the use of this strategy are discussed: health workers and users changed their stances in relation to each other; teams looked at cases with a new approach; and both these developments appeared to have created stronger and more effective encounters to produce care. It is concluded that, in the ambit of this study, Life Histories, by intensifying the collective operation of soft technologies, in an invitation to the shared therapeutic project, increased the porosity of the teams, and the recognition of the user as a valid interlocutor.

Methodological contributions towards the study of health care production: lessons from a research study on barriers and access in mental health.

This article presents methodological contributions and a conceptual innovation for thinking about the production of health care, stemming from a study on access and barriers in mental health carried out in the municipality of Campinas (São Paulo, Brazil). The study used a cartographic approach and, after an initial identification of the most complex cases (on the part of the teams of workers), adopted the users as guides to explore the different levels of production of their lives and to evaluate the possibility of forming a network of existential connections that produce life as a fundamental analyzer of access or barriers to care.

The creation of the health consumer: challenges on health sector regulation after managed care era.

Background: We utilized our previous studies analyzing the reforms affecting the health sector developed in the 1990s by financial groups to frame the strategies implemented by the pharmaceutical industry to regain market positions and to understand the challenges that regulatory agencies are confronting.

Methods: We followed an analytical approach for analyzing the process generated by the disputes between the financial groups and the pharmaceutical corporations and the challenges created to governmental regulation. We analyzed primary and secondary sources using situational and discourse analyses.

[Understanding popular health education: a review of the Brazilian literature].

This article reviews the Brazilian literature on popular health education, a theoretical area that includes a relevant group of the country's public health researchers and political activists. This was a qualitative, exploratory, analytical study. Based on a search in the SciELO database and books and book chapters, we systematized the academic output on popular health education in Brazil.

Home care as change of the technical-assistance model.

Objective: To analyze home care practices of outpatient and hospital services and their constitution as a substitute healthcare network.

Methodological Procedures: A qualitative study was carried out using tracer methodology to analyze four outpatient home care services from the Municipal Health Department and one service from a philanthropic hospital in the municipality of Belo Horizonte, Southeastern Brazil, between 2005 and 2007. The following procedures were carried out: interviews with the home care services' managers and teams, analysis of documents and follow-up of cases, holding interviews with patients and caregivers.

[Community health agents' work process and restructuring].

The current study analyzes the care provided by community health agents in the Family Health Program in Brazil, as characterized by their work process, the techniques they employ, and restructuring of their work. The research adopted a case study design, and data were collected with semi-structured interviews and focus groups. Instruments from the mapping method were used.

[Home care's contribution to alternative health care networks: deinstitutionalization and transformation of practices].

Objective: To identify state-of-the-art home care within Brazil's public health system, evaluate its potential for improving the comprehensiveness and humanization of care, and identify areas for expanding this care modality.

Methods: Seven home care initiatives were examined and cases were analyzed through interviews with five municipal services managers, seven service coordinators, all home-care team members, and with the service recipients, as well as the family members of the 27 cases selected. All of the interviews were recorded and transcribed.

[Home health care in supplementary care: a device for a productive restructuring].

This study discusses the role the Brazilian Home Health Care Program (Programa de Atenção Domiciliar - PAD) plays in supplementary care using the example of a Group Care provider headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. The purpose of the study was to understand how home health care is produced by verifying the interaction between the medical team, beneficiaries and family members considering that the service in this care model is delivered in the micro-political scenery of the process, in the client's own home. The assessment of this program must consider: infrastructure and logistics, beneficiary eligibility criteria, the care-network formed in support of the PAD and above all the work process.

[Regulation of supplementary health care: an analysis of the main results].

This article analyzes some recent results of the regulation of supplementary care, particularly in the period 2000-2006. Three analytical axes were defined: the structure and operation of the sector, the economic regulation and the care model regulation. Indicators were used to analyze the evolution of these three aspects.

[Latin American social medicine: contributions and challenges].

This piece presents and analyzes a number of issues related to social medicine: the context of the emergence of social medicine; the differences between social medicine and public health; the theories, methods, and debates in social medicine; the main subjects or problems considered in social medicine; and the difficulties of disseminating the concepts of social medicine among English-speaking persons and among medical and public health professionals in general. Latin American social medicine has challenged other views by contributing to an understanding of the determinants of the health-disease-health care process and by using theories, methods, and techniques that are little known in the field of public health. Introducing Latin American social medicine, especially among English speakers, will be difficult due to the conceptual complexity of this field for persons who are accustomed to the theoretical framework of public health and medicine and also due to skepticism concerning research coming from the Third World.