Professional Master's Degree in Child and Women's Health 

The lines were structured to meet the objectives of the Program, the need to address relevant aspects of the Health of Women, Children and Adolescents. It also considered the vocations of the group of accredited teachers. Their cross-cutting axes were qualitative and quantitative methodological perspectives, the theoretical fields of epidemiology, public policy, planning, and social and human sciences. The Program, through its faculty and postgraduate coordination, has reformulated and updated the lines of research that are now listed below:

• Historical and social determination of health conditions involving women, children and adolescents: care, needs, vulnerabilities - This line of research encompasses critical research initiatives involving the processes of suffering, illness and resistance that exist in the experiences and ways of life of women, children and adolescents. Historical and social determination of health conditions involving women, children and adolescents: care, needs, vulnerabilities - This line of research encompasses critical research initiatives involving the processes of suffering, illness and resistance that exist in the experiences and ways of life of women, children and adolescents. Its main lens is the Theory of Historical and Social Determination of Health-Disease-Care Processes and its updates that intersect different social markers of difference. Priority is given to research that focuses on the different forms of medicalization and vulnerabilization of life, examples of which are: studies in the field of disability; critical approaches to chronicity; the historical and social construction of diagnoses; the discussion on health and biopsychosocial well-being and the cultural, attitudinal and behavioral dimensions related to the health-disease process; the economy of care. In addition, this line of research is dedicated to investigating institutional actions, formal and informal strategies and mechanisms of resistance to the aforementioned processes, based on contributions such as: popular education and the shared construction of knowledge; critical health promotion; popular health surveillance; discussions on health care, networks and coordination of care based on health needs, including those related to the diagnosis and organization of service networks, as well as palliative care aimed at the health of children, adolescents and women.

• Life Situations Marked by Chronicity and Disabilities – Studies on the living conditions, social inclusion, and care of children and adolescents with disabilities, including genetic syndromes or with experience of chronic illness.

• Women’s morbimortality – Studies on female mortality, aging and cancer from the perspective of epidemiology, public policies, technology assessment, and sociocultural aspects.
• Perinatal, Child, and Adolescent Health – Studies on perinatal, child, and adolescent health from the perspectives of clinical epidemiology, planning, public policies, assessment of health technologies, and sociocultural aspects.
• Sexuality, reproduction, gender, and health – Studies on sexuality and reproduction in gender relationships, anchored in epidemiological, sociocultural, public policy, and technology assessment approaches.
• Violence and Health – Studies on the impacts of violence on people’s health and the organization of health services from the perspectives of clinical epidemiology, public policies, planning, evaluation, and sociocultural aspects.

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Education Institution: 31010016 | Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ)

Basic Area: Public Health (40602001) | Assessment Area: Collective Health