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Healthcare and alienation: technology mediated relationship

Diego de Oliveira Souza. Healthcare and alienation: technology mediated relationship. Interface (Botucatu). 2021; 25:e200776 https://doi.org/10.1590/interface.200776 There are different perspectives regarding the role of technology at work. There are those that attribute human evolution to the type of technology in use today. There are also those who see technology as inevitably dehumanizing. We present this study to contribute a theoretical-critical line to this debate, especially in the field of healthcare. To this end, we base our analysis on Marx and Lukács’s conceptions of work, abstract work and alienation. We develop a perspective of care and work within healthcare, based on this reference. We then open a dialogue with authors within Collective Health, highlighting the debate that

Epistemological dialogue in Public Health: Arendtian narrative as theoretical and methodological contribution to research investigating health education and training

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Bruno Pereira Stelet. Epistemological dialogue in Public Health: Arendtian narrative as theoretical and methodological contribution to research investigating health education and training. Interface (Botucatu). 2021; 25: e200584 https://doi.org/10.1590/interface.200584
Identifying qualitative methods that ensure methodological rigor is a major challenge in the field of public health. The use of narrative approaches as a research tool can help understand human experience in the face of complex health and disease processes. This article applies the philosophical thinking of Hannah Arendt to the field of public health, reflecting on health education and training based on the idea of human plurality. We provide insights into the Arendtian concept of “narrative”, which can also serve as an epistemological and methodological frame of

Health care as a democratic practice: actions in drug use settings to analyze democracy in Brazil

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Rodrigues RC, Silva CM. Health care as a democratic practice: actions in drug use settings to analyze democracy in Brazil. Interface (Botucatu). 2021; 25: e200484 https://doi.org/10.1590/interface.200484 This article articulates democracy, health and health care among vulnerable groups. We use state actions in drug use settings in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro carried out in conjunction with interventions to evict drug users living in districts that have become commercial areas to analyze democracy in Brazil; typical interventions associated with neoliberalism and its legal counterpart, the State of Permanent exception. We understand that government policies based on abstinence and internment of drug addicts are in tune with the so-called war on drugs. We highlight that the approach

Soap opera as a food and nutritional education strategy in the context of a public policy to promote access to adequate healthy food

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Jullyane Hott Filgueiras et al. Soap opera as a food and nutritional education strategy in the context of a public policy to promote access to adequate healthy food. Interface (Botucatu). 2021; 25: e200635 https://doi.org/10.1590/interface.200635 This study analyzed the soap opera “O caminho do meio” (The Middle Way) as a food and nutritional education strategy and its relation with inventive learning and the production of new modes of subjectivation. We conducted a qualitative study with 15 people who eat at a “popular restaurant” involving the following: (1) Watching the soap opera “O caminho do meio”, which lasts 46 minutes; and (2) Individual interviews administered using a previously prepared guide. Three thematic categories emerged after recording, transcribing and

How to work with narratives: a methodological approach to interpretive understanding in the field of health and human sciences

Licurgo Lima de Carvalho, et al. How to work with narratives: a methodological approach to interpretive understanding in the field of health and human sciences. Interface (Botucatu). 2021; 25: e200355

Training of health professionals to care for LGBTQI+

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William Roslindo Paranhos et al. Training of health professionals to care for LGBTQI+. Interface (Botucatu) [online]. 2021, vol.25, e200684

Communication challenges between men and family doctors

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Guilherme Coelho Dantas et al. Communication challenges between men and family doctors. Interface (Botucatu) [online]. 2021, vol.25, e200663. Epub 2021. eISSN 1807-5762. https://doi.org/10.1590/interface.200663 This article discusses aspects of communication in the doctor-male patient relationship in the context of family health strategy services. A qualitative study was undertaken with family and community doctors (FCDs) in health services in Florianópolis, Brazil in three distinct stages using triangulation techniques (semi-structured interviews and focus groups). The findings show that seeking an appointment was guided by symptoms and/or family pressure and the expectation of receiving examination results that show that the patient is healthy. The FCDs encouraged self-care without effectively convincing the patients. The frequent change of doctors strongly hampered

Mobile applications developed for children and adolescents experiencing chronic health conditions: an integrative review

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Danielle Portella Ferreira et al. Mobile applications developed for children and adolescents experiencing chronic health conditions: an integrative review. Interface (Botucatu) [online]. 2021, vol.25, e200648. Epub 2021. eISSN 1807-5762. https://doi.org/10.1590/interface.200648

This paper presents the results of an integrative literature review regarding the methods to develop mobile applications for children and adolescents experiencing chronic health conditions. The analyzed manuscripts were available on MEDLINE/PubMed, Web of Science, SciELO, LILACS and EMBASE, over a period from 2010 to 2020. We identified 87 manuscripts in the databases and 8 of them attended the inclusion and quality criteria. It was observed that the use of humor, gamification, simple language and attractive visuals arouse interest and facilitated the

Late diagnosis under the perspective of therapeutic itineraries: level 2 physical disabilities in Hansen’s disease

Mirella Chaves Laragnoit Hespanhol et al. Late diagnosis under the perspective of therapeutic itineraries: level 2 physical disabilities in Hansen’s disease. Interface (Botucatu) [online]. 2021, vol.25, e200640. Epub 2021. eISSN 1807-5762. https://doi.org/10.1590/interface.200640 There are remarkable numbers of new leprosy cases with 2 (GIF 2) degree of physical disability, demonstrating the inefficient timely detection. This article presents case reports, based on a qualitative study, regarding four patients with Hansen’s disease and a GIF 2 level at the time of diagnosis, analyzing the late diagnosis from the perspective of therapeutic itineraries (TI). The cases came from two municipalities in the Metropolitan Region of Baixada Santista: Praia Grande and São Vicente. Three men and one woman participated, between 45 and

Body-in-flow: links between dance, education and health

Cláudia Regina Garcia Millás. Body-in-flow: links between dance, education and health. Interface (Botucatu) [online]. 2021, vol.25, e200376 . Epub 2021. eISSN 1807-5762. https://doi.org/10.1590/interface.200376

 

This article addresses the relationship between dance, education and health through the analysis of and reflection upon situations arising from teaching activities on a dance degree course at a public university in Brazil. We study the experiences, highlighting the pedagogical concepts and strategies developed in the Acrobatic Dance modules. The findings show that the educational activities helped create a space of healing as a transformative power, in which students could emancipate themselves from particular conditions and gain access to different perspectives on life, feeling connected

Autonomy and integrative and complementary practices: meanings and relations through the lens of Primary Health Care service users and professionals

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Léo Fernandes Pereira et al. Autonomy and integrative and complementary practices: meanings and relations through the lens of Primary Health Care service users and professionals. Interface (Botucatu) [online]. 2021, vol.25, e200079. Epub 2021. eISSN 1807-5762. https://doi.org/10.1590/interface.200079 This study investigated meanings of autonomy and integrative and complementary practices (ICPs) assigned by health center (HC) patients and professionals and the potential contribution of ICPs to patient autonomy. We conducted a qualitative study based on data obtained from semi-structured interviews recorded and interpreted using content analysis. Eighteen individuals participated in the study, including members of a yoga group, acupuncture service users, and professionals from a HC in Florianopolis, Brazil. The findings reveal multiple understandings of patient autonomy and differences

Being a teenager during the Covid-19 pandemic: perspectives from the Winnicott’s theory of maturation

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COSTA, Luiza Cesar Riani et al. Being a teenager during the Covid-19 pandemic: perspectives from the Winnicott’s theory of maturation. Interface (Botucatu) [online]. 2021, vol.25, suppl.1, e200801. Epub May 19, 2021. ISSN 1807-5762. https://doi.org/10.1590/interface.200801. This article aims to reflect, based on Winnicott’s theory of maturation, on the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and measures of social isolation in the adolescents’ mental health. Some of the adolescents’ paradoxical experiences when facing the pandemic are: need for separation from parents or caregivers and confinement; need for group coexistence and social isolation; need for continued care by society and blockage or changes in service priorities. This population experiences the impossibility of carrying out the healthy processes of maturation,