How do autistic people, professionals, and caregivers think about the origins and environments of autism.

Understanding what people believe the causes of autism to be has implications for experiences of familial guilt and stigma. Using a qualitative approach, we investigated how Brazilian healthcare professionals, parents of young and adult autistic people and young and adult autistic people consider the origins of autism and the interaction between the biological and social environment concerning the challenges autistic people encounter. Eight health professionals who assist autistic people, five young autistic people, six family members of young autistic people, five autistic adults, and four parents of autistic adults participated in the research.

Implication of the training ad continuing education process for the interprofessional performance.

Objetives: to analyze the implication of the training/continuing education process of professionals of the Expanded Nucleus of Family Health and Basic Care (Portuguese acronym: Nasf-AB) for their interprofessional performance.

Methods: a qualitative case study performed with Nasf-AB teams representative of four macro-regions of health of the state of Santa Catarina. Participation of 43 professionals, who answered collective interviews.

[Living and being health in human aging contextualized through oral history].

This is a qualitative study with a focus on aging in the healthy living process, through the Thematic Oral History. Eight interviews were conducted with elderly people, four of them belonging to the UNIVIDA extension project at UNIVALI and the other to the SESC elderly group-Florianópolis (SC). The spiritual dimensions, of gender, work, esthetics and the art of aging emerged from the narratives, allowing to contextualize the healthy aging process.