[Knowledge and practices of the community health agent in the universe of mental disorder].

This qualitative investigation aimed at collecting information about the knowledge and practices of the community health agents related to the universe of mental disorders. Fourteen agents working in the Family Health Program in Sobral, Ceará were interviewed. We deduced that the concepts of mental disorder are constructed in a process influenced by subjective and socio-cultural aspects and in connection with concrete experiences.

[Education in health and conceptual interfaces: representations of students of a nursing course].

Article produced from the a doctoral thesis: "The Education in Health in the scenarios of teach-learning: representations of professors and students from the Nursing School of the University Vale of the Acaraú", whose objective was to apprehend the direction of the representations elaborated for professors and students of the Graduation Nursing Course, about Education in Health. The results presented here come from the Free Test of Words Association. It was possible to infer that the novice students' representations are in the nucleus of what is established as common sense, considering the reductionism concept in health, proper form of the biomedical model.

[Nurses's view of their work process in medication prescription in the Family Health Strategy].

One of the advances in the Family Health Strategy (FHS) is the prescription of medication by nurses, which has brought the discussion together with the medical category. This study aimed at analysing nurse's perception about this act as well as its regulation. The study is of qualitative approach, having as subjects four Nurses who perform in FHS in Sobral, Ceará.