title: Social scientists in public health: a fuzzy approach.
abstract: This study aims to describe and analyze the presence of social scientists, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists in the field of public health. A survey by the Lattes Curriculum and sites of Medical Colleges, Institutes of Health Research Collective, seeking professionals who work in healthcare and have done some stage of their training in the areas of social sciences. In confluence with Norbert Elias' concepts of social networks and configuration of interdependence it was used fuzzy logic, and the tool free statistical software R version 2.12.0 which enabled a graphic representation of social scientists interdependence in the field of social sciences-health-social sciences. A total of 238 professionals were ready in 6 distinct clusters according to the distance or closer of each professional in relation to public health and social sciences. The work was shown with great analytical and graphical representation possibilities for social sciences of health, in using this innovative quantitative methodology.
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brasil, jluporini10@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Juliana Luporini
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: do Nascimento
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brasil, jluporini10@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Celso
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Stephan
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brasil, jluporini10@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Everardo Duarte
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Nunes
mesh_terms: D017143:Fuzzy Logic; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D011634:Public Health; D012942:Social Sciences