Health literacy, a more complex concept than knowledge, is a required capacity to obtain, understand, integrate and act on health information [1], in order to enhance individual and community health, which is defined by different levels, according to the autonomy and personal capacitation in decision making [2]. Medium levels of Health literacy in an adolescent population were found in a study conducted in 2013/2014, being higher in sexual and reproductive health and lower in substance use. It was also noticed that the higher levels of health literacy were in the area adolescents refer to have receipt more health information. The health literacy competence with higher scores was communication skills, and the lower scores were in the capacity to analyze factors that influence health. Higher levels were also found in younger teenagers, but in a higher school level, confirming the importance of health education in these age and development stage. Adolescents seek more information in health professionals and parents, being friends more valued as a source information in older adolescents, which enhance the importance of peer education mainly in older adolescents [3]. As a set of competences based on knowledge, health literacy should be developed through education interventions, encompassing the cultural and social context of individuals, since the society, culture and education system where the individual is inserted can define the way the development and enforcement of the health literacy competences [4]. The valued sources of information should be taken into account, as well as needs of information in some topics referred by adolescents in an efficient health education. Schizophrenia is a serious and chronic mental illness which has a profound effect on the health and well-being related with the well-known nature of psychotic symptoms. The exercise has the potential to improve the life of people with schizophrenia improving physical health and alleviating psychiatric symptoms. However, most people with schizophrenia remains sedentary and lack of access to exercise programs are barriers to achieve health benefits. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of exercise on I) the type of intervention in mental health, II) in salivary levels of alpha-amylase and cortisol and serum levels of S100B and BDNF, and on III) the quality of life and selfperception of the physical domain of people with schizophrenia. The sample consisted of 31 females in long-term institutions in the Casa de Saúde Rainha Santa Isabel, with age between 25 and 63, and with diagnosis of schizophrenia according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR). Physical fitness was assessed by the six-minute walk distance test (6MWD). Biological variables were determined by ELISA (Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay). Psychological variables were assessed using SF-36, PSPP-SCV, RSES and SWLS tests. Walking exercise has a positive impact on physical fitness (6MWD -p = 0.001) and physical components of the psychological test...
ResumoBaseando-se num longo período de observação directa e entrevistas, este artigo aponta como principal obstáculo às pouco frutuosas tentativas de diálogo entre biomedicina e "medicina tradicional", em Moçambique, o desconhecimento e/ou desvalorização das noções locais acerca da doença, vertentes sociais da sua etiologia e suas implicações para a noção e processo de cura. Assim, a par da caracterização dos tinyanga (terapeutas putativamente possuídos por espíritos) e das terapias que utilizam, o artigo expõe o sistema localmente dominante de interpretação dos infortú-nios, em que as causas materiais (como aconteceu) se combinam com factores sociais ou espirituais (porque aconteceu àquela pessoa). Daí decorre que o processo de cura não se esgota no debelar da enfermidade, implicando também a resolução do problema social do qual ela é uma manifestação -o que constitui uma das especialidades destes terapeutas. Por isso, nem o recurso a tinyanga resulta sobretudo de falta de alternativas de cuidados de saúde, nem é concebível, para estes terapeutas, que o seu entrosamento com o sistema de saúde oficial pudesse restringi-los à sua faceta de herbalistas. Contudo, o debate e negociação do seu espaço, papel e estatuto dentro de futuros quadros gerais de prestação de cuidados de saúde não deverão ser feitos através de "tradutores culturais" bem intencionados, que lhes pretendam "dar voz". Os próprios tinyanga dispõem das capacidades e competência para o fazer, assim tenham interlocutores.
trauma e limpeza ritual de veteranos em moçambique Resumo O presente artigo descreve e discute os rituais de limpeza oficiados aos veteranos da guerra civil de Moçambique por parte de médicos tradicionais do sul do país. Reinventados nas últimas décadas, a partir de tratamentos para outras situações e importando a sua lógica explicativa, esses rituais apresentam uma eficácia na reintegração social dos veteranos que se deve em grande medida à coerência que mantêm com os sistemas locais de interpretação do infortúnio, com o problema que pretendem resolver e com procedimentos previamente conhecidos e respeitados. O seu papel superou contudo a reintegração individual, tendo contribuído para a aceitabilidade dos antigos inimigos enquanto "personas como as outras" e da competição democrática por meios pacíficos, em substituição do confronto militar.
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