[International health: various current concepts]. / Saúde internacional: alguns aspectos conceituais contemporâneos.

This study is a theoretical approach on international health with the purpose to point out some aspects which can enhance the understanding of the International Health field and its operational and conceptual elements in the socio-economic process of integration of neighboring countries.

[Institutionalization of nursing teaching in Paraiba: a trip to the past]. / Institucionalização do ensino de enfermagem na Paraíba: uma viagem ao passado.

The purpose of this study was to carry out an historical rescue of the institutionalization of nursing education as it occurred in Paraíba. Due to the lack of written information on this subject, the authors carried out the research relying on primary and secondary oral sources. The authors verified that the institutionalization of nursing education in Paraíba occurred in the 1950's, period in which the so-called medical-sanitary model was in vogue at public health services. Among the many significant moments of the study, the authors highlight an interview with Mrs. Doralice Kluppel, a nurse which participated in the team of teachers which established the first School of Nursing in Paraíba, for she brings out feelings of worth and respect for the work carried out by this group of forerunners in nursing education in Paraíba.

[Integration between epidemiology and Internet]. / Integração entre epidemiologia e Internet.

The objective of this study is to present some theoretical reflections on Internet as an integration tool in an epidemiology service. Considering this perspective, it focuses epidemiology and Internet; Internet and cooperative research, and the importance of Internet in the epidemiological communication process. The integration between the epidemiological knowledge and the use of Internet to globalize knowledge is emphasized as one of the most important benefits this technology brings. However, it is indicated that this technology by itself is not the solution for functional problems in the health information system.

[... And nursing in the 21st century?]. / ...E a enfermagem no século XXI?

The failure of Descartes' system and the new world-wide context are aspects that point to a crises of current paradigms. This crises triggers the need of reconsidering philosophical and scientific models, as well as the trends guiding the professional practices and relationships. This study reflects about the tendencies that will lead the nursing practices in the twentieth-first century and the consequences of the care practice under new paradigms.

[Public health literature: teaching of a new look in the health-illness process]. / A literatura em saúde pública: o ensino de um "novo olhar" sobre o processo saúde-doença.

This paper presents the use of Brazilian literature in public health nursing courses at the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing. The goal is a preliminary report about experiences that intend to keep the students in touch in order to wide their view of reality, in which relationships between the men and health-illness process are established in the complexity and singularity of human being (ill and life) in each place and time. In the first stage, this experience is based on New History conceptual framework (Ecolle des Annale), in the complexity's paradigm (MORIN) and circularity concept and sign's paradigm (GINZBURG).