[The care of homeless person: reviewing the meanings of health-disease process].
This qualitative research had the objective of knowing the significance of the health-sickness-care process to homeless person and workers of a community center to homeless people on Sio Paulo city. The dates were collected by the interview with four homeless person and four workers. The interviews were separated in three categories: (1) the apprehension of the health - sickness-care process, (2) the caring of health in the street, (3) advices to survive in the street. The results showed that even with the difference of the homeless person, the street have a specific culture relative of the health-sickness-care person that need to be comprehend by nurses.
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Anderson da Silva
Ada S
Políticas Públicas e Movimentos Sociais da Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo.
Secco
Maria Garbriela
MG
Brêtas
Ana Cristina Passarela
AC
D000328:Adult; D001938:Brazil; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009729:Nursing; D014504:Urban Health