[The Institutional Program for Health and Environment in the development process of the Oswaldo Cruz foundation]. / O Programa Institucional sobre Saúde e Ambiente no Processo de Desenvolvimento da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz.

The objective of this paper is to show the development program about health and environment in an institution of academic research and teaching, technological development and services. We analyse data from the register of projects in health and environment in the development process as the thematic axis for this program. We show the sectors which the projects are related, the key words of research and teaching, the construction of thematic axis that should guide and the different approach of interdisciplinary. At the end we show the challenges and perspectives for an interdisciplinar work about health and environment in an academic research and teaching institution.

[Evaluation of orientation and serological support centers in the Brazilian Northeast]. / Avaliação dos Centros de Orientação e Apoio Sorológico/CTA/Coas da Região Nordeste do Brasil.

This article presents the results of an evaluation of Orientation and Serological Support Centers, or Anonymous HIV Testing Centers, in the Northeast of Brazil. Methodological triangulation was used to evaluate these health programs and services, including qualitative and quantitative methodology and pointing to the insufficiency of single-discipline reasoning to encompass phenomena in social organizations. The article also shows results from this triangulation experience, seeking to combine Social Sciences and Epidemiology. It describes the structure and dynamics of these services, analyzes the relationships, perceptions, and representations of the actors, presents a self-evaluation by the professionals, expounds on some quantitative results, and discusses some limits and problems, as well as proposals to overcome them.

[Child prostitution from the point of view of society and health]. / A prostituição infantil sob a ótica da sociedade e da saúde.

OBJECTIVE: The social representations and the structural relationships related to child prostitution, as presented in the depositions made before of the Parliamentary Commission Inquiry dealing with the problem are analyzed. METHODS: On the basis of qualitative methodology, the analysis attempts to identify the units of meaning present in the depositions. RESULTS: Data on the subject are presented by region. A vision of the social scene is built up on the basis of the data such as to being out the related historical and cultural determining factors. CONCLUSION: The child juvenile prostitution is based on the commercialization of the body as coercion or slavery is seen as a means of meeting the basis needs of survival. The need for social action is brought out, including that of collective health, so that the theme does not serve only the amposes of rhetoric on statistics, because in calls for decisive action.

[Health and violence in infancy and adolescence]. / Saúde e violência na infância e na adolescência.

This paper deals with the conceptualization and problematization of data on violence against infancy and adolescence in Brazil, varying from mortality data to the most subtle and concealed forms of domestic violence. It suggests the appropriation of such information by the health system and its professionals, aiming at the adequacy of their services and policies.

Inequality, violence, and ecology in Brazil.

This paper studies the articulation of three subjects--ecology, inequality, and violence--as interconnected components of reality, in such a way that each of the three interferes in the whole. At a time of increased ecological awareness, this paper shows that poverty, destination, and violence not only affect the environment, but that they are also responsible for the destruction of culture and life in society. Furthermore, as a cry for Nature, this increased awareness represents a struggle for life with dignity for all.

[Violence for all]. / Violência para todos.

This paper investigates the problem of social violence based on the situation for mortality from external causes in Brazil, particularly in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Mortality data from the Brazilian Ministry of Health (consolidated by the Department of Epidemiology of the National School of Public Health in the period 1980-1988) are used in this study. Proportional mortality and mortality rates from external causes are given according to sex, age, specific groups of external causes, types of homicides, and traffic accidents. Despite being basically a descriptive study, this paper also studies homicides as the most significant cause of death in the configuration of violence in Brazil today.

[Anthropological approach to the evaluation of social policies]. / Abordagem antropológica para avaliação de políticas sociais.

A anthropological approach to the evaluation of health programs is presented. A special role is attributed to anthropology which goes beyond its traditional scope as basic research in order to produce, in conjunction with Social Medicine, a particular way of focusing on the evaluation of public policies and, more particularly of health services. Anthropology thus takes its place within a more comprehensive social process to which it contributes with its specific tools for the understanding of reality. Based on empirical research assessment of Primary Health Care in a shanty-town located in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), it shows that the qualitative method for the evaluation of health programs can contribute greatly to overcoming positivistic trends in the evaluation process as well as to reaching a more comprehensive perspective for the health-disease phenomenon.

Interdisciplinaridade: uma questäo que atravessa o saber, o poder e o mundo vivido / Interdisciplinarity: an issue that crosses knowledge, power and experienced world

Este artigo trata da aplicaçäo do conceito de interdisciplinaridade ao campo da saude publica. A marca fundamental da área é a sua intrínseca complexidade que desafia qualquer abordagem inodisciplinar, ainda quando, tanto a Medicina como a Saúde Pública estejam dominados pelo modelo bio-médico. O conceito de Interdisciplinaridade é aqui tratado, criticamente, dentro da Teoria do Agir Comunicativo, de Habernas, que combina a cooperaçäo entre os diferentes ramos do saber, (a filosofia, as ciências) a ética social e o senso como um tema instigante para a ciéncia e para a vida enquanto forma de conhecimento, enquanto questionamento do poder e também como interesse de cidadania