ADOLESCENTS: HEALTH, DISEASE AND RISK

Authors

  • Maria Cristina C. Kuschnir
  • Maria H. C. de A. Cardoso

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7322/jhgd.38392

Keywords:

adolescents, health, disease, risk, fear.

Abstract

This article is part of my master dissertation and its objective is to compare the understanding adolescents have about disease, health and risk with that presented by the official documents about adolescent health care produced by Brazilian and international organizations (Ministry of Health of Brazil; Pan American Health Organization). This work consisted of trying
to grasp the adolescents’ understanding of the concepts through the use of the Oral History methodology. A basic premise was that what was said could not be taken in the abstract, but was related to the surrounding environment - therefore expressing socially constructed ways of being
and thinking. I observed that disease was perceived as a “problem” to which there are solutions. Risk was seen as something that exists in the outer social environment, a rather different view from that of the of ficial documents, which understand adolescence itself as being the risk. I hope
that with the results of the comparison between these two ways of understanding the world, the proposal concerning adolescents care will come closer to the reality and needs of the adolescents themselves.

Author Biographies

  • Maria Cristina C. Kuschnir
    Núcleo de Estudos da Saúde do Adolescente, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.
  • Maria H. C. de A. Cardoso
    Departamento de Ensino, Instituto Fernandes Figueira/Fundação Oswaldo Cruz.

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Published

1997-12-19

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Vol. 7 No. 2 (1997)

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