[In search of a definition of current guidelines for outlining studies on children's and school-age adolescents' health]. / Em busca da definição de pautas atuais para o delineamento de estudos sobre a saúde da criança e do adolescente em idade escolar.

This work is a reflection of the search for a definition of current guidelines for outlining studies on the assistance to the child's and school-age adolescent's health based on current literature and on the discussion among professionals in the fields of Health and Education. The guidelines: Assistance to the child's and school-age adolescent's health; Education, Health and Society--current historical transformation; Health, Education and Life Conditions lead to the following questions: how to promote the child's and school-age adolescent's health within the principles of the Unified Health System (SUS) and how to deal with issues such as Health and Education in an inter-sectorial, multi-professional and interdisciplinary fashion by taking into account the New National Curricular Standards? In the conclusion, actions are proposed to eradicate the idea that students are at fault in relation to school failure as well as to change the vision based on current concepts and standings by considering all the changes that have taken place in the field of education with the new Law of Bases and Directives and the recent introduction and application of the New National Curricular Standards.

[Perception of health for obese adolescents]. / A percepção de saúde para adolescentes obesos.

This work aims at learning about the perception of health of overweight adolescents participating in the Multidisciplinary Program of Assistance to Overweight Adolescents developed in the Campus of Ribeirão Preto (University of São Paulo). The qualitative approach based on Minayo (1994) was adopted. Data were collected from sentences and compositions done by 17 adolescents, who were participating in the program. The theme of the compositions and sentences were: "What being healthy means?". Data analysis and interpretation was done based on the thematic analysis technique proposed by Bardin (1976). Through this analysis, the following meaning units were identified: "health is beauty", "diet and hygiene" and "practice of sports". Therefore, the study showed that the ideal body image adolescents want for themselves is related to the beauty standards established by the media and to the stereotypes of physical perfection. Another aspect detected by the study was that adolescents are aware of the need of practicing sports and having a balanced diet.

[The meaning of school failure to social activists who use the program of primary care school health--PROASE at the municipality of Ribeirao Preto]. / Significado do fracasso escolar para os atores sociais que utilizam o programa de assistência primária de saúde escolar--PROASE no município de Ribeirão Preto.

The present study has the purpose to identify and analyze the meaning of school failure to social actors that use or work in the Program of School Health Primary Care--PROASE (family members, health and education professionals) and to articulate their discourse with the official discourse in order to establish the program's future actions. Our study has a qualitative theoretical framework based in Minayo (1992). One area where PROASE develops its activities was chosen and by semistructured interviews and documentation analysis it was possible to know how the three segments that compose the sample understand the meaning of school failure.