The use of Instagram and content from digital influencers to gain information and adopt behaviors related to health and well-being may be associated with sociodemographic variables. Few studies have been conducted in different contexts regarding the use of Instagram to obtain information about health and well-being and its relationship with sociodemographic variables. A descriptive cross-sectional study was performed with a convenience sample of the population of students attending a degree course in physical education, in the northeast region of Brazil, to assess the prevalence of Instagram use as a resource for the adoption of behaviors related to health and well-being, as well as to understand the associations between use profiles and sociodemographic variables. An online validated questionnaire was completed by 162 students from March to June 2021. Descriptive statistics and analysis of artificial networks were used. Results indicate the profile of using Instagram to obtain information about health and well-being is impacted by sociodemographic variables such as gender, age, monthly income, and the semester the student is attending. Specifically, although men adopt health and well-being behaviors more frequently, the relationship between variables such as age and monthly income and the variables of the Instagram use profile is stronger among women. However, the adoption of behaviors and the belief in their contribution to self-care establish a strong relationship among both genders. It is concluded that sociodemographic variables can contribute to a better understanding of the use of Instagram to adopt behaviors related to health and well-being.

Aim: We aim to develop this study with the main objective to discuss perceptions about body and aging from the context of the 'Our Healthier City' project. Method: We use the phenomenological method to develop the research. Through a strategy of the situated phenomenon, we visit the place where it is experienced. We observed the lived world of the people there and interviewed 10 project participants. Results: In this way, we perceive that the aging body is ruled by taboos and prejudices, but develops every day, weaving meanings from movement, work, family, experiences, pleasures, and displeasures, caring for oneself by the understanding that life continues after old age and that death is an irreversible phenomenon. We also understand that it is a part of the body that ages fall, wrinkles, declines as a natural process but that cannot be considered just this, meaning that the body that grows older also develops in a polysemic cultural context with different meanings since old age is understood and lived in different ways by each one. Conclusion: We identify that the area of Physical Education has an academic production in the area of aging and old age that still need to be discussed in order to broaden the eyes for these bodies, so that they can not only be understood in their physiological and their effective responses to exercise, adaptation to physical activity and the types of training programs but also as beings that produce meanings from their experiences.

O povo indígena Tremembé reside atualmente em 3 municípios da costa oeste do estado do Ceará, sendo o foco desta pesquisa é com os índios residentes do município de Itarema. O trabalho traz uma descrição sobre os processos curativos e de encantaria entre os índios Tremembé, fazendo-se um paralelo com o primeiro momento do cuidado de si de Michel Foucault (2010;1985). Objetivamos que este trabalho possa dar sustentação e abrir horizontes de compreensão sobre os significados simbólicos acerca do conceito de cuidado de si entre os indígenas. A pesquisa baseou-se na metodologia etnográfica, sendo realizada entre os anos de 2009 a 2018, recolhendo relatos e presenciando experiências. Descreve-se essas práticas elucidando-as através de rituais, mitos, bebidas, rezas, cânticos, plantas medicinais e práticas realizadas pelos Pajés, bem como, acerca do ritual do Torém e da bebida feita a partir do caju azedo (o mocororó). Neste contexto, as práticas espirituais, curativas e de encantaria mantém uma íntima relação com o cuidado de si, sendo dotadas de significados simbólicos e implicando-se como formas próprias de se constituírem.

Nesta pesquisa objetivamos identificar e discutir sobre os espaços e equipamentos de esporte e lazer existentes em municípios do Rio Grande do Norte, com intuito de mapeamento desses elementos. Trata-se de uma pesquisa descritiva, de campo com 55 gestores responsáveis pelo esporte e lazer de municípios do Estado do RN. Diante dos resultados encontrados, identificamos que nas cidades pesquisadas há espaços e equipamentos de esporte e lazer com predominância das quadras descobertas, campos de areia e academias ao ar livre. O uso desses espaços predomina a iniciativa pública e popular, preferencialmente no período diurno. O interesse físico-esportivo ganhou destaque, talvez pelo quantitativo de espaços e equipamentos propícios para este interesse e a proximidade dos gestores com o futebol. Apontamos a necessidade de ampliar a iniciativa da animação cultural por parte das prefeituras e a necessidade de cursos de capacitação para os gestores.