title: [Using the notion of vulnerability in the production of knowledge about tuberculosis: integrative review].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to identify how the notion of vulnerability is used in national and international scientific publications that address the problem of tuberculosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  an integrative review of literature published in the databases of the Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde, the United States National Library of Medicine and the Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações, considering the descriptors Tuberculosis and Vulnerability in Portuguese and English.
  
  
  RESULTS
  we selected fifty-eight studies published between 1992 and February 2014, which resulted in three categories of analysis. CONCLUSION the link between tuberculosis and the notion of vulnerability has not been sufficiently consolidated in national and international literature. This creates an obstacle for the achievement of the epistemological transformations and pragmatic measures that are required to obtain better results from interventions in the field.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
authors.forename: Rosana
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Maffacciolli
authors.affiliation: Centro Universitário Univates, Lajeado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
authors.forename: Giselda Veronice
authors.initials: GV
authors.lastname: Hahn
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
authors.forename: Maíra
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rossetto
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
authors.forename: Carlos Podalirio Borges de
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Almeida
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
authors.forename: Silvia Troyahn
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Manica
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
authors.forename: Tiago Sousa
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Paiva
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
authors.forename: Dora Lucia Leidens Correa de
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Oliveira
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D035862:Vulnerable Populations