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

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Legitimated by the World Health Organization, Complementary and Alternative Medicine have shown an increasing demand in the Western world. Professional training is considered one of it’s biggest challenges to its advance in the Brazilian National Health System. The descriptive quantitative study presents the availability of modules of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in six public institutions of higher education at the state of Rio de Janeiro, 2014, identified on these respective websites and secretariat, and classified according to the variables: institutions of higher education, health subarea, level of education (undergraduate and graduate), subtopics of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Meditation etc.); Format (mandatory, elective or optional) and content (informative or formative). The results shows an offer of 56 modules distributed in almost all sub-areas of health care, mainly in Medicine, Pharmacy and Nursing, with a predominantly optional and informative approach. The main themes are Homeopathy, Meditation and Body Practices. The analysis of this offer, based on the perspective of integral care and referenced in national and international literature, points out challenges for the expansion and qualification of the teaching of Integrative and Complementary Practices, among them the integrated insertion in health courses aiming at the interaction and complementarity between knowledge.

This study aimed to analyze the experiences of pleasure-suffering of eight assistants in administration of a university that requested removal motivated by some dissatisfaction. The study, carried out between September of 2013 and August of 2015, was referenced in the Psychodynamics of Work. We chose semi-structured interviews and content analysis. Different aspects related to work emerged from three central categories: pleasure; suffering; defensive strategies and fight for recognition. Concerning suffering, the interviewees pointed out the stigma and invisibility of the middle activities, constant concern with conflicting aspects of work, somatization and work intensification. The experiences of pleasure were related to salary conditions, work qualification, symbolic retribution and possibilities of recognition. Faced with suffering, defensive strategies were highlighted in the fight for recognition: prioritizing qualification; verbalization of problems; and search for instruments of conflict protection, among others. In the expectation of minimizing dissatisfaction the interviewees used the removal that proved to be successful in part of the cases, helping them in the re-signification of work and preservation of health. This instrument, however, does not act in the origin of the experiences of pleasure-suffering. Suffering, besides being intrinsic to work, is situated in an organizational context that creates obstacles to the individual possibility of re-signifying it through removal.

The blood sector regulations in Brazil started to require specific levels of schooling geared to technical and practical knowledge of hemotherapy and immunohematology. This article aimed to identify, understand and analyze the images, ideas and perceptions about hematology y technical course taught in a school of public health, in Brazil. Methodologically, this was action research carried out between March 2012 and December 2013, with teachers, students and technical references. We found that the course was considered relevant, with good content, despite its centralization in the city in the southeast of the country. We conclude that schooling in hematology is done urgently, however, inserting techniques and process of labor relations in the field of Hematology is marked by weakness and absence of the guidelines.

This study intended to analyze the assigned meaning and the contributions of the work of the Family Health Support Centers, as well as the barriers and challenges to the daily practice of matrix support. This is a qualitative study involving multiple cases, which was performed in six cities in Bahia, Brazil. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 43 professionals from the support centers and 40 from the family health teams. We used the theoretical reference of the matrix support in the pedagogical, therapeutic and institutional dimensions. The results were grouped into three categories: (Mis) Understandings about the work of the support centers; Infrastructure and working conditions; Appreciation and management of work. Our study has unveiled divergent understandings among supporters and family health teams about the role of the matrix support process, with conflicting expectations and implications for work. The current infrastructure has proved to be insufficient and inappropriate for the work of matrix support. The little appreciation of the support centers was also highlighted through the low adherence of the community to the collective activities, unsatisfactory wages and excessive workload. Misunderstandings about the innovative nature of matrix support and structural difficulties indicate outstanding challenges for achieving the supportive function.

The objective of this article is to understand the performance of the supporters in a public maternity hospital in the state of Alagoas, Brazil, during the course of implanting the National Humanization Policy, moreover, this study analyzed how the promotion and development of National Humanization Policy practices have been happening in the institution. So, it emphasizes the implementation of the guideline value of labor and worker, including, in this path, the difficulties and facilities found by the supporters combined with the management bodies and also in the fulfillment of intervention processes. The present study is based on the social health research field with qualitative approach. It has been analyzed institutional documents and conducted in-depth research with key actors in this process. The data analysis in methodological basis was Hermeneutics Dialectic. It was built an analytical matrix with two macro categories and six operative categories to organize and present the data collected. The analysis of data allowed to understand the main strategies used by supporters in daily lives of their work, which leads to National Humanization Policy progress and point disconnections and critical nodes to be problematised.

Analyses of work accidents and organizational anomalies are traditionally based on external consultancy, or internal or external analysis, which generally fails in terms of the engagement and involvement of internal actors during the diagnosis or creating solutions. This paper aims to analyze if the interventionist method called Change Laboratory used in the analysis of organizational determinants and latent conditions of work accidents promotes agency and expansive learning of the involved actors, contributing to visualize/construct possible changes in the conception and development of the activity of construction of large buildings. Six sessions of Change Laboratory were analyzed to identify the micro-cycles of learning, facilitated by series of double stimulation. The sessions led to the engagement of the actors who created their own artefacts or appropriated the concepts or models, such as the timeline of the airport building, vicious circle, activity system, contradictions identified in origin of the anomalies and the possible solutions for future building projects. The study showed that the Change Laboratory can be used in systemic analysis of work accidents and anomalies. It is a powerful instrument for organizational collective learning when the group of actors becomes involved at comprehending, analyzing and creating solutions.

This is a qualitative study focused on the connections between the child guardian council and the health sector as well as the partnership during the years 2013 and 2014. The study included 45 tutelary councilors in the Metropolitan Region of Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. Data were built by semi structured interviews and their contents were analyzed. The conclusion pointed to the child guardian council is health sector partner and the lack of a partnership. This mismatch between the child guardian council and the health sector actions demonstrates intersectional gaps. Solving dialogue from a clinical approach and with the rights assurance would result in lower costs and more successful actions in reducing the violence against children and adolescents.

Different conceptions of care permeate the health sector playing an important role in the practices adopted in all fields, including mental health. This research sought meaning for mental health care in the Psychosocial Care Network of Brazilian Unified Health System. The study is methodologically of a phenomenological qualitative nature, from the heideggerian hermeneutics referential. The analytical path was also inspired by the reference of Visual Anthropology and its ethnographic approach. The efforts undertaken in this research came up from the selection of 21 photographs that depict different experiences about the care exercised inside some devices of mental health. From these images, the meaning of care exercised in the Psychosocial Care Network devices emerged as still linked to the notion of care based on effective actions and operations considered appropriate only by following protocols, welfare criteria and activities recommended on manuals. The care deemed necessary for the scope of mental health is one that values people, is interested in their feelings and expectations as to what professionals can come to collaborate to meet the needs, reduce people’s suffering and to the reconfiguration of health devices.

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