The Family Health Program (PSF) constitutes a strategy for reformulating the health assistance model in Brazil. This study was carried out to ponder over the challenges of this strategy concerning to health practices in the primary care context. After existing for more than twelve years, there appear questionings related to the paper of PSF in the reformulation of the way to think and promote health, and their structures remain permeable to the traditional hegemonic model that corrupts the daily work process. Some changes and reconstruction are necessary in the health practices concerning to care production based on light, relational and integrate technologies that are centered on users' needs. Although the deconstruction/reconstruction process implicates much labor, the advantage in overcoming the challenges faced by PSF rather leads to the transformation of reality and to construction of health practices that are solidary, welcoming, and resolvent.

Avaliação do cuidado à saúde da gestante no contexto do Programa Saúde da FamíliaEvaluation of the care to the pregnant woman ' 33.3%, 33.4% to 66.6, 66.7, and 100.00%, respectively. In summary, such

The scope of this study was to analyze child healthcare in the Family Healthcare Program (FHP) in Teixeiras, MG, Brazil. A descriptive transversal study was conducted by applying a questionnaire to 161 mothers of children under 2 years of age. A specific score system was used to analyze the dimensions of structure, process and result and the respective attributes, classifying the town in the incipient, intermediary and advanced categories. The FHP was classified in the intermediary (49.6%) category, characterized by fragmented child healthcare, though with some advances in the organization of care for this group. The physical installations, the quality of care given to control of diarrhea and respiratory infection, community participation and interdisciplinarity were considered incipient. Progress was seen in receptivity to the program, though the scant preventive and promotional activities of the FHP means that it is viewed as an annex to the hospital and merely another place for medical care. The activities of the FHP in child healthcare are not in line with the proposal for reorientation of the hegemonic healthcare model for which it was created, thereby hampering disease prevention strategies and the promotion of healthcare.

Created in the early 1920s, at a moment when the country's psychiatric field was embracing the preventive outlook, the Liga Brasileira de Higiene Mental included within its members the elite of Brazilian psychiatry, along with a number of physicians and intellectuals. The article discusses the institution's proposals for intervention among children. The league ended up incorporating into its theoretical arsenal the basic themes of mental hygiene and eugenics as part of its general goal of collaborating in Brazil's process of "racial sanitation". With this objective in mind, and viewing the child as a "pre-citizen" who is a "fundamental part within the man of the future", league members included the children's issue in their projects and saw an imperative need for mental health care from early ages on.

This social and historical investigation into the ways the health and sickness of mothers from Teixeiras municipality, Minas Gerais state, was represented is designed to comprehend behaviors in this sphere and help develop research in collective health. The semantics and indicators of a pluralistic view of disease and health, were built up from the most holistic to the most biomedical, from the most relational to the most individual. The quest for happiness was presented as a health concept by the mothers, which recalls Aristotelian and Spinozian philosophical concepts, but they put greater emphasis on the absence of illness. The prevailing welfare model still supplies useful references for interpreting such experiences. As the mother's status as care-taker helps one glean an understanding of other factors that affect the process of health and disease, it becomes possible to plan healthcare initiatives that are less alienating and more libertarian.