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Work has a fundamental role in keeping the human being socially productive and recognized. In this context, mental health has been gaining distinguishable attention over the past decades. With the precarization, the underestimation of the worker, the technological innovations and the imminence of unemployment, the health of the worker is impacted negatively; consequently, this generates higher rates of absences due to mental illnesses. The present research had the goal of understanding how the care to the mental health of the worker in the Brazilian Unified Health Systemworks in a municipality of the state of Ceará (Brazil), and if there is the establishment of a causal nexus among health, illness and work. In order to do so,we developed a qualitative research comprised of 12 participants ‒ users and professionals who answered a semistructured interview form. The information provided by the professionals was analyzed using the Iramuteq software, and that of the users was submitted to Bardin’s content analysis. The results indicate faults in the actions proposed by the Worker Health Reference Center, a lack of connection with the services in the network, difficulty in investigating the causal nexus, and a consequent underreporting of the cases. We concluded that it is necessary to develop connections among the health services in order to get a health care that is more comprehensive.

Considering sexuality as a fundamental part of human life, the present study had the goal of understanding how Nursing students represent sexuality.We chose to make a qualitative research based on the Social Representation theory. The study sample was composed of undergraduate Nursing students enrolled in a public institution. The data collection was performed with the aid of the IRaMuTeQ software, version 0.7 alpha 2, and it was based on Content Analysis. Sexuality was represented as something that should remain hidden both in the context of school and within the family. Even though their training was a factor that contributed to their change in conception about sexuality, feelings such as shame and shyness were present during the practices of the students, which verified that the representations are based on stereotypes and taboos. Thus, there is a visible need for more spaces for discussions within the university and within society, but discussions that understand the practice, and are not limited to theory.

Based on the observation that the loss of autonomy in the capital market and managerialism have contributed to the emergence of alienation in the medical work of the Brazilian Unified Health System, we tried to analyze how this phenomenon occurs in primary health care. In 2015 and 2016, we interviewed and observed the work of 15 physicians in the municipality of Campinas (in the state of São Paulo, Brazil), reflecting upon the professional and clinical autonomy, and the management of the medical work. The analysis was made by constructig narratives by groups of topics, following a Marxist theoretical framework and the main studies regarding the medical profession in Brazil. Taking the similarities in the discourses, ways of working anddegree of alienation, we divided the physicians into four groups: activist, priest, missionary and technobureaucrat. We concluded that some dynamics intensify the alienation: the estrangement from planning; the fragmentation of care; and the prevalence of the biomedical model. In turn, some features of primary health care are related to a lower degree of alienation: the practice expanded on the territory and less focused on programmatical actions; the constitution on teams; the dialogue and the sharing of knowledge; a greater participation of the individuals in the care itself and in the health service.

The study that originated the present article, which was performed in the city of Vitória, capital of the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil, in 2016, had the goalof discussing the concept of experience in the works of Walter Benjamin and its possible intersections with the formulations of the Clinic of Activity approach. We sought to think of these thresholds to produce turning points in the field of the work clinics, and, with this goal, to present an array of conceptual and methodological questions based on Benjamin’s contributions. The text is organized according to the concepts that compose the Clinic of Activity, especially the concept of activity and the way in which this clinic approaches the issue of experience. Subsequently, we highlighted the concept of experience in the works of Benjamin and tried to establish a dialogue between the concepts of activity and experience in these approaches. With the analysis, we tried to show the importance of this conceptual-methodological confrontation when the transformation of the worlds of labor presents itselfas an ethical-political directive. We concluded that neither the concept of experience in the works of Benjamin nor the concept of activity within the Clinicof Activity can be understood as part of the privatization of human experience, indicating a dimension of the work processes that is always collective.

The present study had the goal of analyzing, based on the discussions about interprofessional education and collaborative practices in the contextof the psychiatric reform, the political-pedagogical project of an integrated residency in mental health program taking place in the city of Belo Horizonte,in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Through a qualitative approach, we performed the analysis of the thematic content of the political-pedagogical projectof the program, which resulted in three broad themes: theoretical-pedagogical perspective; diversification of the care strategies; multiprofessional work in the interdisciplinary logic. The information found was complemented and delved into with the performance of semistructured interviews with the actors involved in the tutorship and coordination of the program. Among the findings, we highlight the potential of the program to strengthen the process of deinstitutionalization and of qualification of the mental health public policy, by enabling a joint learning among residents of different areas and workers at the services involved. Through the creation of the necessary competences for the development of a work that is collective and committed to the comprehensiveness of the care in health, the program emphasizes the need for interprofessionality and collaborative practices, going beyond technicism. The choice of the psychosocial care network as a privilege space for teaching-learning processes, without using the psychiatric hospital, questions thestagnant training practices and enables the expansion of forms of care.

In Brazil, despite the improvements in guaranteeing the human rights of Lesbians, Gays, Bissexuals, and Transsexuals, this population is still in a considerable situation of vulnerability. The goal of the present bioethics research was to understand the social representations of the Primary Health Careworkers regarding these people, following the premise that these representations can act as obstacles for the access to actions and services. A total of 15 workers from the network of the city of Florianópolis, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, were interviewed. The data collected were analyzed quantitatively based on the Social Representation Theory, through the thematic analysis of the content. The results showed that the social representations on the part of the workers are strongly founded on religious and heterenomous morals, and they understand the group in question based on an idea of promiscuity, risk of acquiring sexuallytransmitted infections, stereotypes, and they understand their sexuality and gender identity as incorrect, biologically determined or even unnatural, subject to personal choice. Sexuality is a dimension of private life that cannot remain subjected to moralism. Social representations must be dealt with in the contexts of education and work in health, in order to broaden the access of the people in question regarding actions and services, as well as quality care.

Many factors contribute to the difficulty in accessing and remaining in Higher Education in Brazil. The objective of the present study was to identify thedifference in the performance of the students due to socioeconomic conditions, schooling and study habits. We conducted an analytical cross-sectional study based on the data of the National Student Performance Exam (Exame Nacional de Desempenho dos Estudantes, in Portuguese), with a sample of 196,856 students from health courses in 2013. The clear obstacle faced by the students from underprivileged social classes to their admission and permanence in Higher Education requires a constant struggle for greater social justice. While the current situation remains unchanged, it is the role of the government to provide strategies to make viable the access to Higher Education through affirmative policies and resources to make it possiblefor the underprivileged to invest in their education. The permanence scholarship presented itself as crucial in the struggle for equity, and it enabled a betterperformance on the part of the students, especially due to their stronger ties with the Higher Education Institution.

The article had the goal of evidencing and analyzing the changes regarding the expectations involving becoming a doctor throughout Medicineundergraduate studies. Between April and June 2018, Medicine students enrolled in the first, fifth, eighth and tenth stages of a public higher education institution in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, took part in the study. After a questionnaire was applied, we analyzed 145 answers regarding the following question: Why did you choose to take Medicine course? Through content analysis, the data analysis evidenced a growing presence, throughout the course, of what we call ‘financial return,’ and, inversely, a decreasing interest in ‘helping others.’ The results, which were analyzed based on theories that approach the socialization and identity development processes, revealed that, in spite the fact that they are inserted into different sociocultural realities, the individuals find themselves involved with rituals and common stereotypes that are socially arbitrated by patterns that were socially and historically developed by the process of constitution of the medical identity.

ALBURQUERQUE, Gregorio G. de; VELASQUES, Muza C. C.; BATISTELLA, Renata Reis C. (Org.). Cultura, politecnia e imagem. Rio de Janeiro: EPSJV, 2017. 318 p

This is a study about the participants of clinical trials in the field of oncology that discusses the paradox between scientific advances and social inequality. We sought to get to know these people and to analyze the aspects involved in their decisions based on interviews and documents. Female participation was more expressive. The participants tend to have low schooling and low income. Most of them are retirees and housewives, and do not get assistance from the private health system. Their decisions revolved around the search for cure or recovery, as well as for the assurance of regular access to comprehensive health care and medicines. Signing the free and informed consent form did not guarantee the expression of autonomy, because crucial information, such as the goals, risks and post-study care are virtually unknown. The research participants tend to not understand the goals of the investigation, or they overestimate the direct medical benefits of their participation, and they tend to be unaware of the risks involved and of what does a research mean. The results should stimulate more critical practices and dialogues among the different players and institutions involved in the field of the research with human subjects, with the goal of promoting a science that is conscious and responsible, and that prevents people from being put in situations of inequality, vulnerability and moral suffering.