Category: Csc

For the first time, Ciência & Saúde Coletiva brings to its readers articles discussing the relevance of social networks in the mobilization, integration and decision making in health, evidencing the emergence of new and complex patterns of sociability and governance. … Read More →

In this troubled year of 2018, Brazil celebrates two ephemerides: the 30 years of the Magna Carta, the Citizen Constitution, and the 30 years of the Health Unified System (SUS – Sistema Único de Saúde). To celebrate this latest date, the journal Ciência e Saúde Coletiva (vol. 23, no.6) presents a very rich and diverse collection of materials that discusses the advances, limitations and challenges faced by SUS over the last three decades. In this thematic edition, the Unified Health System is scrutinized in the most different ways regarding its qualities and deficiencies. … Read More →

The first issue of 2017 of Ciência & Saúde Coletiva presents the difficulties of medical researchers to adhere to qualitative research, on the one hand; on the other, it brings a series of articles, originating from empirical research or review in which these professionals appear as first authors or as member of research groups. The key question is: Why is that in the exercise of an essentially humanistic and intersubjective activity are there strong resistances to knowing and recognizing the scientificity of the qualitative method. … Read More →