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Background: In Brazil, the indigenous population presents the highest socioeconomic and epidemiological vulnerabilities. In 2010, 46.8% of the urban indigenous population lived in the Legal Amazon socio-geographic division. Objective: To analyze the basic sanitation infrastructure of urban dwellings inside and outside the Legal Amazon with a focus on indigenous people. Method: Descriptive study on the basic sanitation conditions of households whose heads were indigenous and non-indigenous individuals according to the 2010 Brazilian Census. Frequencies were calculated for water supply, sanitary sewage, and waste destination according to location in the Legal Amazon. Prevalence ratios were calculated to compare the groups. Results: In 2010, there were 114,600 urban indigenous domiciles in Brazil, and 17.4% of them were located in the Legal Amazon. Six out of 10 urban indigenous domiciles did not have adequate sewage treatment. Indigenous domiciles had higher chances of having precarious basic sanitation. In the Legal Amazon, indigenous domiciles presented a 2-fold chance of not having adequate sanitation facilities compared with that of other domiciles. Conclusion: Even in situations where the population groups are more expressive, indigenous people present important inequalities in relation to the rest of the population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To analyze nurses' perception of autonomy to exercise their practices in the context of primary health care. Methods: A descriptive study with a qualitative approach that analyzed 108 interviews carried out with nurses from the four capitals of the southeastern region of Brazil. The interviews, guided by a semi-structured script, were recorded and transcribed. The data produced were processed and explored with the help of the NVIVO® software. Results: Most of the participants were women, white, lived in the same city where they work, and graduated from private institutions. Two categories were organized: repercussions of autonomy and its consequences for solving users' health needs; and (lack of) knowledge about the regulation of nursing practices: challenges for autonomy. Conclusion: Nurses understand the importance of autonomy for their practices, but they face interference in their daily work, either by management, the structure of services or the need for protocols that guarantee the exercise of their professional activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The association between discrimination based on sexual orientation and adverse health outcomes is increasingly observed in the literature. However, few studies explore discrimination based on sexual orientation in health services in representative samples of the overall population. Objective: To estimate the prevalence of discrimination perceived by sexual orientation in Brazilian health servicesl. Method: This cross-sectional study used data from the 2013 National Health Survey. The prevalence of discrimination perceived by sexual orientation in health services was globally estimated and its association with sociodemographic characteristics and those regarding health services was investigated using Poisson regression producing robust variance that calculated prevalence ratios. Results: The global prevalence of the phenomenon investigated was equal to 0.18%. Although statistically significant, the magnitude of the observed associations was so small that none of the sociodemographic characteristics and the use of health services investigated seemed to be able to pragmatically influence the risk of a person being discrimined due to his/her sexual orientation in Brazilian health servicesl. Conclusion: The study stresses the importance of establishing actions to promote respect for sexual diversity in Brazilian health services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]