Vol. 45 No. 128 jan-mar (2021): Saúde em Debate

“The Brazilian Center for Health Studies (Cebes), with the publication of this journal ‘Saúde em Debate’, is part of the struggle to democratize access to the defense of life and health in this conflict environment. It has been struggling to insert COVID-19 as a disease mainly of occupational transmission and lethality in which the illness of the elderly, children and adolescents is a collateral factor. The resources to study, research and publish are scarce and often mean the limit of survival for the Cebes itself, for the poor working class, for migrants and for the peripheries of a country that is reluctant to be thrown into the graveyard and civil war by its own rulers”. [Excerpt from the Editorial ‘Vaccines against Covid-19: the disease and the vaccines as weapons in colonial oppression’ signed by Cebes directors Heleno Rodrigues Corrêa Filho and Alane Andrelino Ribeiro].

Issue 128 of Saúde em Debate presents the following themes: induction to health research in Brazil to mitigate problems related to extreme poverty; challenges for the regionalization of Health Surveillance in Brazil; bodily practices as devices of biopolitics and biopower in Primary Health Care (PHC); care in psychiatric inpatient services in general hospitals in Argentina; network organization in specialized psychosocial care in Recife; power relations between PHC professionals and users; users who abandon care in Psychosocial Care Centers (Caps-III); Adult Shelter Unit for users of alcohol and other drugs; clinic at Caps Infantojuvenil in adolescence; conducts carried out by Therapeutic Communities; biopsychosociocultural factors related to breastfeeding; oral health care indicators in Primary Care in Recife; bodies as object: a post-colonial reading of the ‘Brazilian Holocaust’; opening up possibilities in mental health care, in moments of crisis; extinction of judicial asylums; Autonomous Medication Management, from Quebec to Brazil; work and illness of bank employees; meanings on mental health care; book review ‘Regionalized health care networks: challenges to care integration and care coordination’.