Social representations regarding firearms

[The social representations of workers regarding the Family Health Program].

The scope of this study is to analyze the social representations of workers regarding the Family Healthcare Program (FHP) to check its potential and limitations in order to change the healthcare model. Data were obtained through semi-structured interviews with eighteen health workers and by observing the working process of the teams of the Healthy Family Program (HFP) of five Regional Administr...

Social Representations and Social Identity 3 Groups and Social Representations

Doise (in press) has emphasised that researchers have focused empirical work on only one aspect of the theory of social representations. They have mainly been concerned either with describing the content of existing representations or they have been interested in examining how anchoring and objectification operate. They have left largely unexplored Moscovici’s hypotheses concerning the ways in ...

Social representations of health councilors regarding the right to health and citizenship.

Objective To know the structure of the social representations of right to health and citizenship of health municipal councilors. Method This is a qualitative study, based on the central nucleus theory of social representations, carried out in eight municipalities of the Integrated Region for the Development of the Surroundings of the Federal District, Brazil. The intentional sample consisted ...

AIDS. Social Representations. Social Practices

Since the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), most research efforts and publications have focused on the medical aspects of AIDS. Unfortunately, much of the earlier work on the social effect of HIV infection has been overshadowed by sophisticated technology. This book, a collection of papers from the November 1988 United Kingdom Conference on the Social Aspects of AIDS, is...

Firearms, violence, and the potential impact of firearms control.