The results of this survey indicate a gap between the need for treatment of hair loss and initiation of such treatment among men in five European countries. Further research is needed into the factors affecting men's willingness to seek treatment for hair loss.

This paper is based on findings from a qualitative study that took place within the context of a four-year healthcare programme directed towards low-income travestis in the central area of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Throughout the study the formation of social identity among travestis was investigated through a focus on four axes: gender, body, work and violence. This paper subjects the identity of the travestis to a critical analysis and proposes a view of their sense of self as a 'patchwork' assembled through the assimilation of various fragments of identity common in Brazilian society. The primary identities assimilated by the travestis under study were, in the area of femininity, the submissive woman, the puta ['whore'] and the super-seductive woman and, in the area of masculinity, the viado ['queer'], the malandro ['rascal'] and the bandido ['bandit']. The resulting travesti identity exhibited not only gender ambiguity, but also contradictions among the feminine identities described, as well as among the masculine ones.

Este artigo se originou de uma pesquisa qualitativa realizada por meio de entrevistas semi-abertas com 20 mulheres vendedoras ambulantes da cidade de São Paulo. A pesquisa buscou investigar como se articulam as questões de trabalho e de gênero entre estas mulheres, a partir do referencial da identidade na Psicologia Social. Os resultados mostraram que o comércio ambulante aparece para elas como alternativa ao desemprego. Como em outras atividades do setor autônomo da economia, há entre elas constante sub-remuneração, implícita na elevada carga horária e no emprego de familiares no preparo das mercadorias a serem vendidas: geralmente comida em suas diversas formas. A produção de comida mostrou uma relação de continuidade com as representações de feminilidade mais comuns em nossa sociedade. Sua comercialização nas ruas, porém, implica em um rompimento com as prescrições de gênero na cultura brasileira, que associam a rua a um lugar masculino. As consequências da opressão de classe e de gênero em relação a estas mulheres mostraram a necessidade de incentivo ao cooperativismo entre elas, possibilitando um enfrentamento desta opressão. Palavras-chave: Vendedores ambulantes, Identidade feminina, Identidade profissional. "Female warriors": feminine identity and occupational identity among street vendors in the city of São Paulo This paper is the result of a qualitative survey conducted among twenty female street vendors in the city of São Paulo. The survey sought to investigate how issues of work and gender are articulated among these women, on the basis of perspectives of identity in Social Psychology. The results showed that street commerce appears to them as an alternative to unemployment. As with others who are self-employed, these women are subject to constant underpayment, which is implicit in the long hours worked and the engagement of relatives in preparing items for saleusually food in various forms. Food preparation exhibits continuity with the most common representations of femininity in Brazilian society. But selling food in the street entails a break from gender roles in Brazilian culture, which looks upon the street as a place for men. The consequences of class and gender oppression for these women demonstrate the need to provide incentives for them to set up cooperatives among themselves, to allow them to confront such oppression.

Youths living in crowded impoverished urban areas face higher risk of infection by SARS-CoV-2. This article presents lessons learned from a preventive intervention project intersected by the COVID-19 crisis that moved from a mix-methods study design to online ethnography. The 'home-officed' research team e-witnessed high-school students' daily lives and collaborated in youths' and community-based organisations' responses in the territories where they study and live. Psychosocial distress increased, also driven by the disastrous governmental response to the health and economic crises. There was growing anxiety about meeting friends and dating, with structural limits for sustaining the recommended social distancing, which added to gender/sexualitybased violence. Simultaneously, we observed students becoming relevant actors through co-producing preventive practices, surpassing risk-group notions and combining SARS-CoV-2 prevention with sexuality, gender, racism and mental-health issues. They managed internet-mediated applications to promote critical thinking and collective actions aimed at health promotion among their peers, from their homes. Freire's concept of 'untested-feasibility' fostered researchers', students' and community leaders' imaginations in the face of this unprecedented crisis, thereby enhancing social responses to the epidemic to become rights-based comprehensive dialogical preventive activities. This ongoing intervention-research stresses how prevention sciences can go beyond reduction of this pandemic to a viral event.

Este artigo analisa a influência da prostituição e das atividades ilícitas na formação da identidade entre travestis de baixa renda. Na primeira parte é discutida sua relação com os clientes, que mostra a incorporação de fragmentos das identidades da "puta" e a do "malandro" por elas. Na segunda, as atividades ilegais realizadas são vistas como fruto de dificuldades econômicas e do abuso de drogas, mas também como conseqüência do processo de incriminação a que foram historicamente submetidas, o que as leva a assimilar parcialmente a identidade do 'bandido" em sua "colcha de retalhos" identitária.