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Cadernos de Saúde Pública

ISSN 0102-311X

2 papers in the library · 15 citations · publishing 2001-2017

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[Contributions and challenges associated with bodily practices and meditation for health promotion in the public primary care system in the city of São Paulo, Brazil].

Cadernos de Saúde Pública December 18, 2017 Ana Tereza Costa Galvanese, Nelson Filice de Barros, Ana Flávia Pires Lucas d'Oliveira

The article presents an analysis of contributions and challenges associated with bodily practices and meditation for health promotion in the public primary care system. The qualitative study was developed in 16 healthcare units in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, using interviews with 29 health professionals and 36 practitioners of bodily practices and meditation, including participant...

DOI: 10.1590/0102-311x00122016 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Meditation Humans Treatment outcome Reproducibility of results +9

[The Yawanáwa medical system and its specialists: healing, power, and shamanic initiation].

Cadernos de Saúde Pública March 1, 2001 L. Pérez-gil 15 citations

A wide variety of terms are used in Yawanáwa shamanism to name both healers and the relations between these specialists and techniques of healing and aggression, a characteristic that appears heterogeneous and complex. However, there is unity behind this appearance, because all the techniques are based on the same concepts of power and knowledge. To show how these ideas are conceived by the...