•Journal•ISSN: 0104-5970
Historia Ciencias Saude-manguinhos
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz
About: Historia Ciencias Saude-manguinhos is an academic journal published by Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Medicine & Public health. It has an ISSN identifier of 0104-5970. It is also open access. Over the lifetime, 1991 publications have been published receiving 12710 citations.
Topics: Medicine, Public health, Politics, Population, Context (language use)
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TL;DR: A brief history of the Brazilian psychiatry reform from the 1980's and 1990's to April 2001, when the Mental Health Law was finally signed, is presented in this paper, where the authors discuss the basic concepts that characterize the present condition of the reform as opposed to those of previous initiatives.
Abstract: This article presents a brief history of the Brazilian psychiatry reform from the 1980's and 1990's to April 2001, when the Mental Health Law was finally signed. The author discusses the basic concepts that characterize the present condition of the reform as opposed to those of previous initiatives. He also presents a general view of the preceding events to the present process; the concepts and values that characterize the Brazilian reform; the first experiments in Sao Paulo; the legislative initiative with an analysis of the new law; the different public policies in relation to mental health during the period analyzed with a copy of the Ministry of Health Ordinances 224/92 and 106/2000; the present condition of the de-institutionalization process in the country and the restructuring of the assistance system in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the health care sector runs the epistemological and pratical risk of falling into reductionism when it addresses violence as if it were an epidemic.
Abstract: While the question of violence and health is a complex one, it opens the door for interdisciplinary collaboration and multi professional efforts. Although this article does not intend to provide any definitive responses, it does endeavor to critique viewpoints that attribute an absolute meaning to the term 'violence'. It warns that this health-care sector runs the epistemological and pratical risk of falling into reductionism when it addresses violence as if it were an epidemic. Furthermore, this sector needs to collaborate with other sectors and wth civil societyu. More than offering answers, the article raises questions within the framework of an interdisciplinary approach encompassing the social sciences, epidemology and psychology.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine current hegemonic concepts which see health as a question of balance and adjustment to the environment, including the conceptualization posed by the World Health Organization and the broad definition laid out during the 8th Health Conference and show that what is defined in discursive statements constitutes an ongoing interaction with the metadiscursive statements more closely related to the world of institutions and institutional action.
Abstract: Taking as a point of departure Canguilhem's view on the epistemological status of the concept of health, the article examines current hegemonic concepts which see health as a question of balance and adjustment to the environment-including herein the conceptualization posed by the World Health Organization and the broad definition laid out during the 8th Health Conference. The basic goal of this examination is to show that what is defined in discursive statements constitutes an ongoing interaction with the metadiscursive statements more closely related to the world of institutions and institutional action. It is therefore argued that the adoption of a particular notion of health implies the selection of a particular direction in health care policies as well as the application of a particular set of intervention strategies regarding the lives and bodies of subjects.
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