RESUMO:Recortando para além dos critérios crono-biológicos, ou seja, compreen dendo-a enquanto um fenômeno social, as autoras discutem a redefinição deste objeto para investigação em enfermagem. Com isso, propõem a ampliação do leque de conhecimentos sobre a saúde do adolescente a fim de subsidiar a transformação do perfil de saúde-doença desse grupo populacional.ABSTRACT: The social phenomena of adolescence: needs and possibilities to nursing research. The authors discuss the transcendence of the chronological criteria to approach the adolescence. They pro pose the approach of the phenomena through the social historical view, believing that the perspectives thus opened reinforce the needs and the possibilities of understanding the adolescence as an object to nursing inter vention, which will enable the transformation of the health-illness profile of this popu lation group.
POR UMA REDEFINIÇÃO DA ADOLESCÊNCIAEnquanto objeto fenomênico, a adolescência in-*
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