Mapping intervention practices in social occupational therapy in Brazil.

Background: Social occupational therapy developed in Brazil in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a practice approach to the social issues experienced by vulnerable populations.

Aim: The aim of this study was to analyse the theoretical-methodological framework which has supported social occupational therapy practices and interventions in Brazil.

Method: In a scoping review following PRISMA- ScR, the following databases were searched for publications reporting the practices and interventions of social occupational therapy: Scopus, Web of Science, Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences (LILACS) and The Cochrane Library.

Health pact: approaches and collisions in the federal arena.

This article analyze the institutional construction process of the Health Pact, consolidated in 2006 and that expresses an incremental evolution of the regulatory framework of federative relationships in Brazilian National Health System. Even considering that such process has developed in a federative parity arena ( CIT) it is assumed the general hypothesis of Brazilian literature about federalism that suggests the Federal Government dominant role in the formulation of social policies. Using an institutionalist approach, focusing on the relationship between Federalism and Public Policy it was done a qualitative study starting from semi-structured interviews with managers and consultants who participated in the process and analyzing the minutes of meetings from CIT between 2004-2012.

The Youth Daily Life Before Fulfilling Socio-educational Measures of Deprivation of Liberty in Brazil: Ordinary Experiences That Are Tangent to the Inclusion in Drug Trafficking.

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate some understanding of the daily lives of young people facing socio-educational measures of incarceration, especially regarding the predisposing factors that may explain their involvement in criminal occupations and activities (Although the socio-educational measures applicable to adolescents configures as a response to committing of an offence, it has a mostly educational and not punitive character.). This is an exploratory study with a qualitative approach.