Mendes MRSSB, Gusmão JL, Faro ACM, Leite RCBO. RESUMOO envelhecimento é uma questão explorada por pesquisadores, epidemiologistas e estatísticos por meio de investigações científicas encontradas na literatura nacional e internacional, que revelam a projeção notória desta população de idosos. No panorama mundial, bem como nos países em desenvolvimento, a população idosa aumenta significativamente e o contraponto desta realidade aponta que o suporte para essa nova condição não evolui com a mesma velocidade. Diante disto, a preocupação com esse novo perfil populacional vem gerando, nos últimos anos, inúmeras discussões e a realização de diversos estudos com o objetivo de fornecerem dados que subsidiem o desenvolvimento de políticas e programas adequados para essa parcela da população. Isto devido ao fato que a referida população requer cuidados específicos e direcionados às peculiaridades advindas com o processo do envelhecimento sem segregá-los da sociedade. Assim sendo, esse artigo tem como objetivo discutir sobre a situação social do idoso no Brasil, considerando os aspectos demográficos, epidemiológicos e os aspectos psicossociais com destaque para a aposentadoria, a importância da família e as relações interpessoais.Descritores: Idoso; Situação Social; Epidemiologia; Aposentadoria; Família ABSTRACT The national and international literature suggest that the process of becoming old in an issue of great interest for researchers, statisticians, and epidemiologists. The literature shows that the population of elderly worldwide is increasing rapidly. Particularly in countries in development, this population has been increasing significantly but the resources and support systems necessary to attend this population is not expanding at the same rate. Therefore, concerns regarding this population profile have led to many serious discussions and studies to provide data to those in political position to create adequate programs and policies to attend to the specific needs of the elderly population without isolating them from society. Thus, the goal of this paper is to discuss the social situation of the elderly in Brazil taken into consideration demographic, epidemiologic, and psychosocial. Emphasis is placed on retirement, the importance of the family, and on the interpersonal relationships.Keywords: Elder; Social situation; Epidemiology; Retirement; Family RESUMEN El envejecimiento es un asunto explorado por investigadores, epidemiólogos y estadísticos por medio de investigaciones científicas encontradas en la literatura nacional e internacional, que revelan la proyección notoria de esta población de ancianos. En el panorama mundial, así como en los países en desarrollo, la población anciana aumenta significativamente y el contrapunto de esta realidad señala que el soporte para esa nueva condición no ha evolucionado con la misma velocidad. Frente a esto, la preocupación por ese nuevo perfil poblacional viene generando, en los últimos años, innumerables discusiones y la realización de diversos estudios con el objetivo d...

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This study aims to learn the characteristics of Family Health Strategy (FHS) teams from a Regional Health Coordination of RS, identifying its difficulties in the work process. It is a qualitative exploratory-descriptive study, with a questionnaire application. Results revealed a group of young females with recent professional education. Regarding the work process, some difficulties observed were: the hiring model, the lack of infrastructure of the health units, the difficulty to work in teams, the lack of specialization of the employees, the non-comprehension of the population about the FHS proposal and even the reporting of the lack of difficulties. Some of the results corroborate the data reported by the literature, but the last two items were poorly explored in other studies, constituting relevant aspects to be considered in the work process and in the implementation of the FHS.

This study describes the perception of pain and the meanings it has for adults who use the Brazilian public health system, the Sistema Unico de Saúde (SUS). The sample was comprised of 60 patients who sought the service in the period. This is a descriptive-explanatory research whose data were collected through semi-structured interviews and evaluated qualitatively. The emerging themes were grouped into categories. It was observed that "the meaning of pain" revealed the preponderance of the comprehension of pain as a physical matter. It also showed that pain is related to emotional, sentimental, religious and human circumstances as well. "The reaction of men and women in the face of pain" is perceived differently according to the gender. In questions such as "How do you feel when you are in pain?" the answers varied between affective, cognitive and behavioral.

The current study has the objective of learning and understanding how Community Health Agents conceptualize, develop and perform strategies to counter violence against women attending the Family Health Strategies in a northeastern municipality of Rio Grande do Sul. It is an exploratory research, utilizing a descriptive and qualitative approach, carried out with 35 Community Health Agents. Semi-structured interviews were performed to collect the data, which were analyzed using the thematic model. Conceptions of violence against women are centered around violence as a social construction based on gender inequalities and on violence as having a multifactorial construction. Regarding care practices and interventions to counter violence, the following tools are highlighted construction of intervention strategies within the staff forming bonds, listening and dialogue with the women victims of violence; and directing victims to support services. We believe that this study contributes to the visibility of this theme as a need in health care, as well as for the construction of strategies to counter it.