Culture circle in primary care: dialogues with managers on health promotion.

Objective: To identify health promotion strategies used by managers in primary health care.

Method: Qualitative research, of a participant action nature, which adopted the Culture Circle proposed by Paulo Freire as its methodological reference. Eleven primary health care managers from a medium-sized municipality in southern Brazil took part.

Learning difficulties in school children: health and education professionals' perceptions.

Objectives: to understand health and education professionals' perceptions regarding children's learning difficulties in public schools.

Methods: qualitative research, of the participatory action type, linked to Paulo Freire's Research Itinerary. Forty-five professionals participated, through interviews and a Virtual Culture Circle.

[Health promotion and primary care for people with chronic non-transmissible diseases].

Objective: Understand the health promotion practices developed by primary health care nurses in a southern county of Brazil, in the care of people with chronic non-communicable diseases.

Method: Qualitactive research, developed by multiple speeches, in twenty three health centers of a southern county of Brazil.

Results: According to speeches, the health promotion practices developed by nurses refer to two main fields, of the five action fields proposed by the Ottawa Letter: reorientation of the health system and developing personal abilities.

Remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic: repercussions from professors' perspective.

Objectives: to understand the repercussions of teaching work in remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic in Higher Education Institutions in northern Santa Catarina.

Methods: a qualitative participatory action research, based on Paulo Freire's theoretical-methodological precepts. Seventeen health professors participated in two Virtual Culture Circles held in the first half of 2021.

Reflections of the social determinants of health on school children's learning.

Objective: understanding the repercussions of the social determinants of health on school children's learning, linked to the public-school network, from the point of view of health and education professionals.

Method: qualitative study, participant-action type, articulated to Freire's Research Itinerary, through three moments: Thematic Investigation; Coding and Decoding; Critical Unveiling. The participants were 27 health professionals and 18 education professionals, working in four municipalities of Santa Catarina.

Circle dance: integrative and complementary practice in the daily health promotion for older adults.

Objectives: to understand circle dance as an integrative and complementary practice for health promotion in older adults' daily lives.

Methods: an interpretive, qualitative study, based on Michel Maffesoli's Comprehensive Sociology of Everyday Life. There were 20 participants, 17 older adults and three focalizers in circles held in Basic Health Units in a municipality in southern Brazil.

Nurse's actions in the interface with expanded services of Family Health and Primary Care Center.

Objective: To understand the actions of nurses from the perspective of the interface of performing with the Expanded Services of Family Health and Primary Care Center.

Method: Qualitative participatory research based on the Freirean Itinerary, from the following steps: thematic research; encoding and decoding; and critical unveiling. The information was obtained through four Culture Circles, with nurses from Family Health teams, between April and June 2018.

Social determinants of a Quilombola Community and its interface with Health Promotion.

Objective: Understanding the relationship of social determinants in the Health Promotion of quilombola women.

Method: This was a participatory study developed through the Research Itinerary of Paulo Freire, which comprises three stages: thematic investigation, codification and decoding, and critical unveiling. These stages were developed in Culture Circles from April to June 2016.

Nursing care practices for people with Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases.

Objective: To understand care practices for people with Chronic Noncommunicable Disease, developed by Primary Health Care nurses in a municipality in southern Brazil.

Method: Qualitative study, developed through the Discourse of the Collective Subject. Twenty-three nurses from the Family Health Strategy participated.

Promoting the autonomy of rural older adults in active aging.

Objective: to understand how the rural older adults promote their autonomy in active aging.

Method: qualitative research through the Paulo Freire's research itinerary, consisting of three steps: area of research; encoding and decoding; and critical unveiling. Seventeen older adults living in the rural area of a municipality in Southern Brazil participated in the research.

[The promotion of women's autonomy during family health nursing consultations].

We adopted a qualitative approach combined with the methodological framework of Paulo Freire, consisting of thematic investigation, coding and decoding, and critical unveiling, to understand whether nursing consultation promotes women's autonomy in a health center. Six Culture Circles that were each two hours long were conducted, with an average of nine participants each, between May and July 2011. The investigation revealed eight topics of importance, although two were particularly important: the need for dialogue on domestic violence and the relationship between nurses and participants during consultations.