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The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the inequalities in health care access in Brazil, exarcerbating vulnerabilities and social determinants of health. Inequality is part of the context of rural populations, especially rural workers and family and subsistence farmers due to both the direct consequences of work activity and the unfavorable socioeconomic context, especially regarding service provision, the guaranteeing of rights, and the coordination of care networks. This article reviews challenges to the health of these workers and outlines proposals for disease prevention in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Apandemia de covid-19 no mundo trouxe à tona as desigualdades vivenciadas no acesso à saúde no Brasil, escancarando as vulnerabilidades e os determinantes sociais de saúde. É nesse ínterim de iniquidades que as populações rurais se inserem, em especial trabalhadores e trabalhadoras rurais e membros da agricultura familiar e de subsistência, tanto pelas consequências diretas da atividade laboral quanto pelo contexto socioeconômico desfavorável, especialmente no que diz respeito a oferta de serviços, garantia de direitos e articulação das redes de assistência. Frente a isso, o presente trabalho discute os desafios relacionados à saúde desses trabalhadores e traça propostas para a prevenção de agravos da referida população no contexto da pandemia de covid-19.
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This documentary, qualitative, descriptive study has the objective to analyze images and representations of the female body and their relation to drug use in the content of articles published in four magazines with national circulation (Veja, Isto E, Boa Forma, Claúdia). The articles selected were submitted to the technique of content analysis, with three thematic groups identified: the body as an incentive to use drugs; risks to the body resulting from drug use; and the search for the perfect body through drug use. The data showed that the media reproduces rigid aesthetic standards, exposing women to social and health offenses that stimulate drug use, either autonomously or by prescription. The search for beauty and the appeal to feminine eroticism, published through the communication channels analyzed limit the social importance of women by using images that link them to the status of sexual object.
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Arte , Corpo Humano , Publicações Periódicas como Assunto , Mulheres , Publicidade , Consumo de Bebidas Alcoólicas , Fármacos Antiobesidade , Beleza , Indústria da Beleza , Brasil , Dieta Redutora , Literatura Erótica , Estética , Feminino , Humanos , Rejuvenescimento , Sexismo , Estereotipagem , Transtornos Relacionados ao Uso de Substâncias , Mulheres/psicologiaRESUMO
This article discusses the social representations of women living in common-law marriage in terms of their vulnerability to becoming infected with HIV/AIDS. Data were obtained through the free association of words, and consisted of an excerpt of a study founded on the Social Representations Theory developed with HIV-negative women living in the state capital and cities in the interior of Bahia. The correspondence factor analysis showed significance for the variables: origin, education level and time spent in common-law marriage. Their acceptance of marital affairs emerged as a vulnerability factor for respondents with one to five years spent in common-law marriage, living in cities in the interior. Women from the capital, with 6-10 years spent in common-law marriage, reported monogamy as a form of prevention. Women with a longer common-law marriage who had completed only a primary education reported feeling invulnerable, which was the opposite of those with one to five years in common-law marriage with a secondary education. Results show there is a need for more interventions aiming to denaturalize the socio-cultural coercions that generate representations and make women in common-law marriages more vulnerable to AIDS.
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Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida , Casamento , Feminino , HumanosRESUMO
This paper discusses on the social representations of community health agents (CHAs) about drug use as part of a qualitative, ethnographic study with data collected by means of a set of research techniques among health professionals including 22 CHAs in a basic health unit in Salvador, Bahia (Brazil) from January, 2006 to January, 2007. The Theory of Social Representations was adopted as the theoretical framework whereas gender was the chosen analytical category. CHAs were found to recognize the women's proximity and participation in the drug phenomenon in the community where they live and act, although they take no professional measures towards such an issue. Their social representations were shown to reproduce stereotypes and prejudices towards drug users and drug use, especially gender- and social class-related, while highlighting the invisibility of drug use as a health problem for the population under study.
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Agentes Comunitários de Saúde , Percepção Social , Transtornos Relacionados ao Uso de Substâncias , HumanosRESUMO
In light of the increasing demand for female drug addiction care and its internationally acknowledged specificity, this qualitative study was carried out in Salvador, BA, Brazil, from October 2003 to September 2004. It aimed to investigate whether the context of care in which participants are inserted interferes with the visibility of female drug addiction. Participant observation and content analysis of 19 interviews performed with health care practitioners revealed that some aspects of female drug addiction were perceived differently according to the context of care (institution versus outdoors): demand, kind of drug used, age, social roles and partner's influence in the initiation and maintenance of drug use. Since the context of care impacts the health care practitioners' representation of female drug users which in turn can affect the strategies devised for their care, we recommend that not only the contexts of care within the studied unit should be articulate, but these contexts with those from other health services as well.