Sistema Regional de Información
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Ms. Tanguy is a sociologist and research director at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Laboratory 'Work and Mobility' (University Paris X - Nanterre). For more than twenty years she has been studying the relationship between Education and Work, focusing in particular on the analysis of educational policies, teaching institutions, professional groups, qualifications and competencies. At the moment, at the CNRS, she is responsible for the European programme 'Education and Professional Training in Europe'. In Brazil, she has published a series of books and articles and many debates on professional education have used her academic production as reference. In this interview, conducted during Ms. Tanguy's visit to the Polytechnic School in July 2002, the author deals with the essential issues involved in the debates around professional training - including in the area of health - namely, training as a political category, the role of the school in professional training, the notion of competency and the possibilities of it being appropriated by the workers and the recent discussion on professional education in the French context.

In all Brazilian regions many efforts have been made to put into practice the governmental policy on professional qualifications in the area of health. The Project of Professional Training for Workers in the Area of Nursing (PROFAE) is the highest expression of this objective and has, as its basic characteristics, decentralisation and the establishment of partnerships in the country's various regions. This reporting, prepared by the Regional Agency of Minas Gerais, emphasizes those aspects of PROFAE's activities that - together with all other institutions involved in the implementation of the Basic Level Completion (CEF) and the Professional Qualification of Nurse Assistants (CQP) courses - have contributed to bring about a number of significant advancements.

This work originated at the Seminar 'Theoretical Shock' organised by the Polytechnic Health School Joaquim Venâncio of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation from 2nd to 4th December 1987, in Rio de Janeiro. Having been invited to take part in this seminar to deal with the conception of polytechnic, I made an oral presentation not based on a written text. At the time, the presentation, together with the ensuing discussions, were taped and transcribed and later published in a book (Saviani, 1989). The eight interventions that occurred during the debate were the object of relatively long answers in which I had the opportunity to express, in a clearer form, a few of the issues dealt with in the presentation. Part I of this article is a revised version of my presentation at the seminar. Part II returns to the discussion on the concept of polytechnic, bringing new elements that will contribute towards a better understanding of its meaning in correlation with the present historical situation.

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This article analyses the recently promulgated 5.154/04 decree on professional education, taking into account the structural limitations imposed by capitalism on education, manifested in the structural dualism of the school system. From there on, the article brings back the idea of polytechnic education as (still) a new perspective for the theoretical, political and pedagogical debate on professional education.

The multiple impacts of Covid-19 on the territories where the teams of the Family Health Strategy are linked require the need to reorganize the work process. In this study, it is proposed to analyze the recommendations of the Health Department of the city of Recife-PE, aimed at reorganizing the work process in the Family Health Strategy during the Covid-19 pandemic in Recife-PE, relating them to the socio-spatial singularities of the territories where the teams are linked. Case study, developed through documentary research, with fourteen documents. The results show that the components of the work process, object, instrument, actions and purposes are centered on the disease, assuming work with an individual and clinical approach. The collective actions of promotion and surveillance are directed almost exclusively at the community health agent. In general, the recommendations do not consider the magnitude of health needs arising from the repercussions of Covid-19 and consider, in an incipient way, the socio-spatial singularities of the territories. However, the results obtained only portray the perspective of the recommendations, evidencing the need to check the operationalization, seeking to understand the directionality and breadth of the work process reorganized due to the Covid-19 pandemic and its relationship with socio-spatial singularities.

The study evaluated the prevalence of symptoms of depression and anxiety in a sample of Brazilian workers from different segments, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The correlation between the anxiety and depression scales of the screening instruments was also verified. Data were collected online using three instruments: a sociodemographic and occupational questionnaire, the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale - Short Form and the Occupational Mental Health Inventory. A total of 503 professionals participated, of which 78.5% were female, with an average age of 41.38 years, of which 92% attended higher education and resided in the southern region of Brazil. Both scales detected a higher prevalence of anxiety symptoms in women (54.3% and 59.9%) and in single people (68.8% and 68.1%). There was a significant association between outcomes of anxiety and depression symptoms and the prevalence of two independent variables: contact with people diagnosed with COVID-19 and feeling worried about the pandemic. The Occupational Mental Health Inventory showed greater sensitivity to assess anxiety symptoms and discriminate between workers who have symptoms and those who indicate having mental health, when compared to the other instrument. Longitudinal studies are suggested to capture the longterm effects of the outcomes evaluated, in order to improve the analysis of predictors of critical and non-critical values of symptoms of mental health problems.

The concept of recovery in the field of mental health, originating from the movement of patients and families in Anglo-Saxon countries, has become relevant for the understanding of care practices, valuing those that incorporate the protagonism of users and a critical dimension of treatment methods. Aiming to investigate the different perspectives in which the concept has been understood and experienced in the context of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform, an integrative review of the published literature in the country regarding recovery was carried out, taking as inclusion criteria texts that report or analyze concrete experiences of care and define themselves as ‘recovery based’. After an extensive search, 32 works were analyzed, including articles, dissertations and theses. The term recovery appears in the Brazilian mental health bibliography from 2011 onwards, and the works are notably concentrated in the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, linked to higher education and research institutions. Much of the production does not incorporate key elements of the concept studied, such as the role of users, in addition to sometimes taking recovery as a synonym for psychosocial rehabilitation. Despite the advancement and consolidation of the field of psychosocial care in the country, the dimension of the role of users is still incipient in the Brazilian experience.