Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

Interdisciplinarity is presented as a challenge and a need of the health sector, with a view to redirect the health care model. This study aimed to unveil the understanding the coordinators of undergraduate programs in Pharmacy in Midwestern Brazil have of interdisciplinarity in training pharmacists. A qualitative approach was used in the methodological fundamentals of the phenomenology, pursuant to the mode of the phenomenon. A total of 16 testimonials were collected between June 2011 and April 2012, which were then submitted to description, reduction, and phenomenological interpretation in order to reach knowledge on the phenomenon studied. Results were built based on ideographic and nomothetic analyses of the testimonials, from which 12 topics grouped into three main categories emerged: curriculum interdisciplinary, interdisciplinary in training the pharmacists, and interdisciplinarity in the pharmacist's role in the health system. Some of the results that were obtained point to the need to better understand how interdisciplinary converses with the Pharmacy curriculum and overcoming technical and political obstacles that prevent the practice of effective interdisciplinary in the training of pharmacists, including the lack of training for faculty and competition for power among areas.

Higher education in health plays a fundamental role in society because the graduates of the courses offered in this area will be the future providers of care to the population. This study aimed to analyze publications in the literature regarding undergraduate work in health, the methodology of which was a narrative review, with 51 stories selected in the Virtual Library in Health database (focused on undergraduate education, teaching methods, and the theory-practice relation). The results showed the importance of connecting theory and practice, the differences in teaching methodologies - which must be analyzed critically -, and the weaknesses in the pedagogical training of teachers. It was concluded that the dissent with regard to the teaching methodologies and concern with the training of teachers and students shows the need for discussions to socialize experiences and ideas in this important field of knowledge and to meet social needs.

The article traces a first profile of the production and circulation of educational materials produced and distributed by municipal health surveillance offices in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, focusing on the food theme, in 2008-2010 period. For mapping, we consulted databases and health surveillance coordinator collections from the 92 municipalities in the state. The health surveillance teams received a letter of invitation to participate in the survey. They were asked to submit physical or scanned versions of their educational materials and to fill out a questionnaire concerning issues of interest to the research: Theme of the materials, year of production and circulation, circulation, institutional origin, forms of cooperation and circulation, justification for the production. Thirty coordinators responded, and only nine sent materials rated as relevant to the food theme. This made it clear that investments in this area are very low, despite its importance to public health. The analysis pointed out that most information in the materials had been written in a technical-scientific language the population is unlikely to understand as intended; that there are great differences in production resources, with high-and low-quality materials, that there is a circumstantial circulation effort that is subject to the administrative political process, and that there are recurrent cases of action discontinuity.

This article analyzes the relationship between work and subjectivity in the Family Health Strategy in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, from the perspective of the psychodynamics of work, pursuant to which work is what imposes demands, in addition to know-how, the engagement of the body and mobilization of intelligence, the ability to reflect, create, and invent. From there, it was proposed an analysis of those things that are invisible at work, based on the statements of 75 health professionals working in the Family Health Strategy at four municipalities in the state of Amazonas (Coari, Manacapuru, Parintins, and São Gabriel da Cachoeira), obtained via individual interviews, focus groups, and participant observation. Different types of significant labor content have been identified, i.e., the symbolic sense that it introduces in one's work activity, in addition to defensive strategies for the mediation of suffering, including the rationalization and the relationship of trust and cooperation found in the team. The Family Health Strategy workers in Amazonas showed they come up against unique issues in the provision of health services at these locations. Through this qualitative survey, we give voice to the workers, considering them as the main managers of their own work, allowing, through reflection, them to envision their potential to create change from their daily work.

The aim of this study was to get to know the scenario and build an overview of the scientific production in occupational therapy, work and health, and to identify how such publications have been being set up with regard to the production of knowledge, specifically in the development of empirical thought and in theoretical training in occupational therapy – how the discussions are being conducted, and based on which theoretical and methodological approaches references they are guided. The survey was conducted in the Pubmed, Lilacs and Cochrane Library databases, and the categories analyzed were Brazilian and international publications, publishing countries, year of publication, type of publication, magazines and areas of concentration, and concentration by topic and subject. It was concluded that the issue requires further theoretical and methodological discussions aiming to deepen the relationship between the fields of occupational therapy, work and health. With the approximation among the three fields and the relationships that could be established among them, it was observed that, in most cases, production in technical and academic spheres does not take the complex relationship between work and health into account.

The aim was to evaluate the level of performance of the teaching nurse in core competencies in adult education from the andragogical perspective. This descriptive, comparative, cross-sectional, quantitative study was carried out with 226 teacher nurses working at twenty undergraduate nursing courses. Descriptive statistics, nonparametric tests and the Minitab® 16 software were used. The population's age ranged, predominantly, from 46 to 55 years, they were mostly female, had graduated from public schools and attended specialization and master's degree courses; fewer than half held doctorates. The professors considered themselves below the level they should be at for adult education, distant from the ideal for the skills they sought to achieve, and stated they had more control to facilitate learning than to develop and manage adult education programs. It was concluded that the professors’ performance levels were homogeneous, with no significant differences when comparing the results with the population's characteristics.

This study aimed to investigate the humanization of conceptions in articles published in Brazil in the field of training in health from January 2000 to June 2012. As a methodological process, the choice was for the review of the literature, and these describers were used: ‘Humanization,’ ‘humanism,’ and ‘humanization in training.’ Twenty-three articles were selected, and data analysis included the characterization of the publications and the discussion of the concepts on humanization featured in the analyzed documents. These concepts appearing in the articles pointed to the issue of the polysemy of the term humanization, which included other meanings, such as communication skills, respect for human life, ethics in relationships, living in groups well, a concept that guides practices. Humanization has proved to be a complex, extensive process involving institutional and personal conditions. The challenges that came up include the implementation of changes in undergraduate courses in health, making the subject of humanization a transverse axis in the curricula, which enhances a difference in undergraduate and continuing education in health.

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