PSYCHOSOMATIC, CHRONIC-DEGENERATIVE DISEASES AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Abstract

Chronic-degenerative diseases, psychosomatic diseases and urban violence are some of the examples that constitute today serious aggravations of epidemiological in the Brazilian population. Although communicable diseases, whether endemic or epidemic, are still quite relevant in terms of public health problems, new diseases and even known old ones appear in other environmental and social contexts. The intervention through the health services, find limitations in urban inequalities, social exclusion, migrations, etc, as several authors point out. Identifying vulnerabilities has been a major challenge for health managers, practitioners and researchers in the field.