Teaching and learning science: a dialectic and complex relationship.
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M C Minayo
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[Child prostitution from the point of view of society and health].
OBJECTIVE: The social representations and the structural relationships related to child prostitution, as presented in the depositions made before of the Parliamentary Commission Inquiry dealing with the problem are analyzed. METHODS: On the basis of qualitative methodology, the analysis attempts to identify the units of meaning present in the depositions. RESULTS: Data on the subject are presented by region. A vision of the social scene is built up on the basis of the data such as to being out the related historical and cultural determining factors. CONCLUSION: The child juvenile prostitution is based on the commercialization of the body as coercion or slavery is seen as a means of meeting the basis needs of survival. The need for social action is brought out, including that of collective health, so that the theme does not serve only the amposes of rhetoric on statistics, because in calls for decisive action.
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[The Institutional Program for Health and Environment in the development process of the Oswaldo Cruz foundation].
The objective of this paper is to show the development program about health and environment in an institution of academic research and teaching, technological development and services. We analyse data from the register of projects in health and environment in the development process as the thematic axis for this program. We show the sectors which the projects are related, the key words of research and teaching, the construction of thematic axis that should guide and the different approach of interdisciplinary. At the end we show the challenges and perspectives for an interdisciplinar work about health and environment in an academic research and teaching institution.
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[Anthropological approach to the evaluation of social policies].
A anthropological approach to the evaluation of health programs is presented. A special role is attributed to anthropology which goes beyond its traditional scope as basic research in order to produce, in conjunction with Social Medicine, a particular way of focusing on the evaluation of public policies and, more particularly of health services. Anthropology thus takes its place within a more comprehensive social process to which it contributes with its specific tools for the understanding of reality. Based on empirical research assessment of Primary Health Care in a shanty-town located in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), it shows that the qualitative method for the evaluation of health programs can contribute greatly to overcoming positivistic trends in the evaluation process as well as to reaching a more comprehensive perspective for the health-disease phenomenon.
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[Evaluation of orientation and serological support centers in the Brazilian Northeast].
This article presents the results of an evaluation of Orientation and Serological Support Centers, or Anonymous HIV Testing Centers, in the Northeast of Brazil. Methodological triangulation was used to evaluate these health programs and services, including qualitative and quantitative methodology and pointing to the insufficiency of single-discipline reasoning to encompass phenomena in social organizations. The article also shows results from this triangulation experience, seeking to combine Social Sciences and Epidemiology. It describes the structure and dynamics of these services, analyzes the relationships, perceptions, and representations of the actors, presents a self-evaluation by the professionals, expounds on some quantitative results, and discusses some limits and problems, as well as proposals to overcome them.
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