Vol. 46 No. especial 6 dez (2022): Interdisciplinarity in public health

This special issue of the journal ‘Saúde em Debate’, dedicated to the theme ‘Interdisciplinarity in public health’, reflects and explores theoretical and methodological aspects, training and research on the theme in the field of public health. [...] This issue of the journal opens with the article by Nísia Trindade, debated by Gulnar Azevedo e Silva and Aurea Ianni, about the challenges in the path of interdisciplinarity and the way in which they have been developing in the field of public health. The text highlights that the COVID-19 pandemic brings a new order of issues, in which it is necessary to rethink the divisions between the natural world and society and the environmental challenges, as well as the current configuration of the field of information and communication. The publication features original and review articles, as well as experience reports. Some texts present practical experiences of research, teaching, extension, management, and health care, and others produce and deepen discussions on interdisciplinarity in terms of its episteme and guiding theories.” (Excerpts from the Presentation signed by the scientific editors).

Topics covered: Pandemic and interdisciplinarity: challenges for collective health; Interdisciplinary training for medical students; PET-Saúde/Interprofessionality; documentary cinema as an inspiration to decolonize knowledge production; Children with Congenital Zika Syndrome; Child and adolescent mental health and the school; Priority for the elderly in health claims in Rio de Janeiro; Children and teenagers who lived with leprosy; Health Literacy Scale and eHEALS for older person; Social support networks for trans people; Extended Action-Research Communities; Interdisciplinarity, interprofessionality, and racial diversity in the anti-racist training of health professionals; Interprofessionality and interdisciplinarity in health: reflections on resistance from concepts of Institutional Analysis; Relationship between territory and health residence; Interdisciplinarity in health: the experience of conversation circles in the pandemic; Interdisciplinarity in the construction of Permanent Education in Health with management teams; Culture Circle as a strategy to promote health; gender and health in the training of residents of a university hospital; Solidarity economy and mental health; Interdisciplinarity in mental health care practices; Teaching public health in Brazil.