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This paper analyzes from the users' perception adherent to treatment, the meanings attributed to the risks of the disease. The qualitative study was developed from the Grounded Theory. Data collection occurred through semi-structured interviews, with 19 users as subjects adhering to tuberculosis treatment. The project was approved by the research ethics committee of UFRGS. Survey participants indicate relational risks such as the possibility of harms that tuberculosis is the interaction of the patient with society, with interference with public and private dimensions of everyday life. The recognition of the participants as subjects of risks was part of a process that is producing identities, making them sought an image of the subject concerned with his care and the care of the other, preserving their personal relationships and interaction in society.

The objective was to analyze an intervention in the traditional way of teaching nursing consultation and its potential for nurses' education aiming for the practice of integrality in health. This is a participative research carried out from August to November 2011 with eight students attending the School of Nursing in a public university from the south of Brazil. The study context comprised outpatient consultations and daily life experiences of the patients. Data were collected through focus group and submitted to thematic analysis, in which two categories emerged: "The interactivity between the traditional and the extended scenario:possibilities for the integrality in education" and "The extended nursing consultation, knowledge from experience". The analysis evidenced that the experience produced knowledge coherent with the integrality in education. We conclude that the diversification of learning scenarios may configure a pedagogical strategy with potential to foster changes in the existing health care and education model.

The article is part of a qualitative study analisys developed in 2009 aiming at investigating the demand of emergency calls to the Emergency Mobile Attendance Service/Porto Alegre (SAMU) that classifies it as non-pertinent. The information was gathered from 16 semi-structured interviews with the subjects of that demand by utilizing as a methodological guideline the Grounded Theory. The article approaches the content of the sub-category "Entering into conflict with SAMU regulation in the evaluation of life-threatening", by focusing the divergences between the regulation and the users' perception about the operation of the service and the meaning of "life-threatening", factors implied in the construction of the non-pertinent demand. The importance of Nursing within this scenery is in its competence to perform education actions about first aid and to participate in projects among sectors which are able to intervene in situations that generate vulnerability.

The current paper sought to analyze the repercussions of Maria da Penha Law on addressing the issue of domestic violence against women in the city of Porto Alegre based on the view of professionals who constitute the care network for those women. Seven professionals, who work with the care for women who are victims of violence, were interviewed. Data suggests that the law has promoted changes in the field of violence prevention, assistance to women and punishment for the perpetrators, and it also increased the attention given to this phenomenon and enhanced female empowerment. It is concluded that the strengthening of the measures recommended by Maria da Penha Law still depends on investments in professional qualification, articulated actions between the places which provide assistance and the growing use of primary care services in order to improve the health of women and families exposed to violence.

This qualitative approach study, aimed at understanding the perception of women who went through the Prenatal Care Attention (PCA), on the context of the Supplementary Subsector (SS), in relation to the quality of this attention. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed by descriptive categorization. For the interviews, the PCA was considered of good quality, meeting the women's needs and exzpectations. Receptivity, bonding with the expert the consequently transmitted safety feeling and the duration of the appointments were the prominent criteria in this evaluation. Their'experiences suggest that the PCA performed in the SS partially meets the recommendations of the Brazilian Ministry of Health (MH) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The appointments' frequency and the orientation provided also meet the recommendations. However, the data suggest that the PCA does not meet the orientations of the MH and the WHO regarding avoiding the extended use of hard technology, such as obstetric sonography.

This experience report is the result of the construction process of workshops on first aid offered to inhabitants of Cavalhada, a neighborhood in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The workshops resulted from a concern of researchers involved in the project "Life risk under the perspective of users of the Mobile Urgency Care Service of Porto Alegre (SAMU)--inputs for the service management". They aimed to interfere in the studied reality in a dynamic way. With this report, we intend to provide inputs for experiences in teaching first aid.

Multiparity among poor women is associated to vulnerability as a generating or strengthening factor. This is a qualitative and exploratory research that aims at analyzing experiences of contraception among poor multiparae women, considering the influence of gender on their autonomy in choosing the number of children, the moment of getting pregnant, and the contraception strategies. It also aims at analyzing the mechanisms of resistance used by these women in the search for such autonomy. The data were gathered through focus groups. The content analysis suggests that the high number of children these women give birth to is explained by a reduced autonomy in their use of contraception, arising from poverty and gender inequalities. These women face these difficulties using resistance strategies that result in male power disruptions. This research has brought new elements for understanding the multiparity phenomenon in the context of poverty, and it also contributes towards a critical analysis of actions focused on promoting family planning.

In the field of health practices, there are different models of health education. The objective of this article was to identify undergraduates' concepts of health education. This descriptive exploratory study used a qualitative approach. It was developed in the Undergraduate Nursing Courses of the Federal University of Santa Maria and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Subjects were undergraduate students of the last semester before graduation. Data were collected using a semistructured interview, and submitted to thematic content analysis. The results suggest that the undergraduate nursing students' training as health educators is permeated by concepts that are a mixture of traditional and modern assumptions on health education.

This article reports part of a quantitative study characterizing motorcyclists, who were victims of traffic accidents and were treated at the Emergency Hospital ofPorto Alegre, RS, Brazil, from June to August 2002. The sample included 63 motorcyclists: 34% had injuries in the lower limbs, 22% in the upper limbs; 18% in the head, 9% in the hips, 6% in the abdomen, 6% in the thorax, and 5% in the column; 28% out of them were motorcycle couriers. There are several ways of considering traffic accidents, which are produced by a combination between subjective and social-cultural points of view. Qualitative studies are needed for further understanding traffic accidents.

This paper highlights a few aspects of health promotion and education that enable reasoning over the pertinence of the work developed with groups in the community. Group work makes it possible breaking the traditional vertical relationship between the health professional and the subject of his/her action. It is also a strategy that facilitates the expression of individual and collective needs, expectations and life circumstances that influence health.

The QSR Nvivo 2.0 is one of the latest versions of qualitative data analysis software package. Taking on board our experience as QSR Nvivo 2.0 users we describe here the software's most important tools. The QSR Nvivo 2.0 was used to facilitate the qualitative analysis of data gathered in a Health and Education research. Considering the shortage of published materials about the issue, which suggests a lack of knowledge about the program in our context, our aim is to show how the QSR Nvivo 2.0 can assist qualitative data analysis.

This paper approaches adolescense aspects, emphasizing on the adolescent sexuality phenomenon. In order to strengthen the importance of the issue to health professionals the article gives concepts of "adolescence" and "sexuality" in the context of this phenomenon.