Vol. 48 No. 141 abr-jun (2024): Saúde em Debate

Editorial signed by the journal’s scientific editors: “The effects of climate change on the planet, predicted by scientists for the coming decades, have already come. In the first months of 2024, floods occurred in countries in Africa (Kenya) and Asia (Indonesia, Afghanistan), leaving hundreds dead and thousands homeless. In May, in Brazil, rain caused the biggest tragedy in the history of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, and one of the biggest in the country. […] Solidarity, demonstrated from North to South of the country, involved the most diverse sectors of society, artists, influencers, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), social movements, sectors of the economy and media, with donations and direct action in civil defense, which proved fundamental in the first days of the tragedy, when the objective was to save lives, by rescuing stranded people and animals, searching for the missing and sheltering the homeless. However, this solidarity – necessary and fundamental – does not replace the role of the State as neoliberals, defenders of the minimal State, tried to make us believe. Without public investments, there is no way to recover the destroyed infrastructure (roads, bridges, airports, schools, health services etc.) nor to stimulate the recovery of the productive sector (commerce, industry, agriculture, and others), nor to guarantee the transfer of financial resources to the families”.

Topics covered: People-environmental affectiveness in community gardens; Food environment in a socially vulnerable territory in Piraquara-PR; Environmental and occupational exposure to pesticides that affect cancer patients in Mato Grosso, Brazil;  The battle against hunger during the COVID-19 pandemic: mental health in a favela at São Paulo; Working conditions and health of frontline professionals in the COVID-19 pandemic; Pesticides in Pernambuco sugarcane fields and damage to workers’ health; Front for Life and updating the Brazilian Health Sector Reform Movement; Palliative Care in a referral oncology hospital; Food and nutritional insecurity in adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic;  Prescription of benzodiazepines in Health Centers;  Work of oral health teams in the COVID-19 pandemic; Atenas Program: Pioneer Brazilian service of outpatient care by telemedicine for women with miscarriage or incomplete abortion; Cross-cultural validation of ImpRes-Tool-BR; Therapeutic itineraries of people hospitalized for COVID-19 in the SUS in the Federal District; The training-work relationship in the SUS; Body Practices and Physical Activities from 2004 to 2023; Palmore-Neri-Cachioni Questionnaire on Basic Knowledge about Old Age; Teaching in Residency in the Professional Health Area in Brazil; Experiences of young people with HIV/AIDS; Financing public mental health in Rio de Janeiro; Assessment of Primary Health Care;  Anxiety and depression in health workers in a COVID-19 ICU; Planning of COVID-19 testing in Amazonas, Brazil; Evangelicals, ‘neoconservative agenda’ and women’s health policy.