...Marcelo Ribeiro; Rosana Frajzinger; Luciane Ogata Perrenoud; Benedikt Fischer Purpose Brazil’s street-based drug use is mostly characterized by non-injection psychostimulant (e.g. crack-cocaine) drug use in Brazil, with limited interventions and service availability. Recently, an influx of multi...

..., and temporally situated in the historical context of the construction of Brazil’s capital city. Findings Results show that these professionals recognize the importance of immigrant support services paying attention to issues of religiosity connected to those of MH, in spite of never having received training...

...Ana Cecilia Andrade de Moraes Weintraub; Maria da Penha Costa Vasconcellos Purpose – This paper presents the results of a field research conducted with five immigrant women in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The aim of this paper is to show the itineraries they used in order to build a new life...

... intake was obtained by 24‐hour diet recall (Fisberg et al., 2009). Further questions about eating habits in Brazil, changes after migration, differences in consumption of high‐calorie and low‐nutrient foods and incorporation of typical English food in the diet were asked. A short food...

...Rubens Camargo Ferreira Adorno Purpose This paper seeks to address the issue of contemporary vulnerabilities in the context of late capitalism, analysing how policy making directed at the public health system in Brazil has targeted groups that are made visible from an exclusion perspective...