Violence in rural areas against disabled people from the perspective of their families.

Objectives: to know the violence spoken and felt by disabled people, living in rural areas, from the perspective of their families.

Methods: a descriptive-exploratory and qualitative study, carried out in four municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Twelve family members who lived with disabled people in rural areas participated.

Recyclable waste pickers: life and work in light of the social determinants of health.

Objectives: to know how the social determinants of health relate to the context of life and work of recyclable waste pickers.

Methods: a qualitative study, derived from Convergent-Care Research, conducted with waste pickers from two recycling associations in the South of Brazil. We used systematic participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and convergence groups.

Health care for people with disabilities in a rural setting under the perspective of community agents.

Objective: To understand how health care for people with disabilities in rural settings occurs according to the perspective of Community Health Agents.

Methods: Qualitative approach study in which 13 Community Health Agents participated. Data collection took place through semi-structured interviews.

Gender violence: knowledge and professional conduct of the family health strategy.

Objective: To evaluate the knowledge and behaviors of health professionals of units of the Strategies Family opposite gender violence.

Methods: This descriptive study with 53 seven of units of the family health strategy professionals from March to July 2015. Data were collected through a self-administered instrument and analyzed in Excel 2007.

Network to combat violence against rural women: articulation and communication of services.

Objective: to identify the constituent services of the network to combat violence against rural women in municipalities in the northwestern region of Rio Grande do Sul and to analyze the articulation and communication of services in search of the resolution of situations of violence.

Method: descriptive-exploratory, qualitative study, carried out through semi-structured interviews with 26 professionals from intersectoral services, as well as managers and/or those responsible for these services. Data were systematized through content analysis.

Social representations of violence against women for a group of rural elderly.

Objective: Understand the social representations of violence against rural women, from the perspective of the elderly, considering how the generation and gender influence this aggravation.

Methods: Qualitative study, based on the Theory of Social Representations.It was carried out with 12 elderly rural women from a city of Rio Grande do Sul, in July and August of 2013.

Rural women and violence situation: access and accessibility limits to the healthcare network.

Objective: To analyze the access and accessibility to the healthcare network of women dwelling in rural contexts undergoing violence situation, as seen from the professionals' speeches.

Method: A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive study with professionals from the healthcare network services about coping with violence in four municipalities in the northern region of Rio Grande do Sul. The information derived from interviews, which have been analyzed by thematic modality.

Women in situations of violence: limits of assistance.

This paper analyzes the limitations of the care of professionals of family health teams provided to women in situations of violence in the integrated care network in a city in the northwest region of Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. The data is part of a survey conducted with six teams participating in family health care in the course of eight meetings, in which the group identified the limits and potential of the practice. The causes of limits, solutions and improvement actions were discussed in a movement of reflection, action and learning.

[Healthcare practices for users suffering from violence: from invisibility to comprehensive (un)care].

The aim of this study was to investigate practices of health professionals for users undergoing violence from perspective of comprehensive care. This study was based on a qualitative and descriptive research on graduate-level and technical health professionals who work in the Family Health Strategy programme in a northeastern municipality of Rio Grande do Sul. Data were collected by means of semi-structured interviews and analyzed using thematic mode.

[Work process of community health agents: possibilities and limits].

The current study is aimed at getting to know and analyzing the work process of community health agents (CHA) from a municipality of the Northeastern region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul through a qualitative approach. The collection of data was carried out by means of a semi-structured interview applied to 23 CHAs. The Thematic Content Analysis was utilized for the data analysis.