Background Food and nutrition security remains a major global challenge, intensified by social inequalities, climate vulnerability, institutional fragility and uneven access to food systems. Brazil and Mozambique share structural challenges related to hunger, poverty, intersectoral governance and the territorial implementation of public policies. This study compared official food and nutrition security policy documents from both countries to identify common elements, institutional differences and conceptual emphases. Methods This was a comparative, documentary and qualitative study based on lexical and similarity analysis. The corpus consisted of key normative documents on food and nutrition security in Brazil and Mozambique, including the Brazilian Organic Law on Food and Nutrition Security, the National Food and Nutrition Security Policy and Mozambique’s Food and Nutrition Security Policy and Strategy 2024–2030. The texts were standardised and analysed using IRAMUTEQ®, allowing the identification of lexical co-occurrences and thematic nuclei. Similarity trees were interpreted through graph theory and compared according to their conceptual structures. Results In Mozambique, the main lexical nuclei were organised around institutional commitment, resource mobilisation, strategic pillars, multilevel coordination, governance, production, access, nutrition and food education. In Brazil, the central nuclei were related to the human right to adequate food, normative institutionalisation, SISAN, federative planning, intergovernmental agreement, monitoring and evaluation. The findings indicate that both countries frame food and nutrition security as a multidimensional policy field requiring coordination across agriculture, health, education, social protection, governance and territorial implementation. Conclusions Brazil and Mozambique show important convergences in their food and nutrition security policy frameworks, particularly regarding intersectorality, strategic planning and the need for monitoring. However, they differ in the degree of formal institutionalisation: Brazil has a more consolidated legal and participatory framework, whereas Mozambique emphasises multilevel coordination, resource mobilisation and the strengthening of implementation capacity. The study highlights that effective food and nutrition security policies require stable funding, information systems, social participation and adaptation to territorial vulnerabilities.
As concepções curriculares orientam o processo educativo e constituem um instrumento que regula a implementação, desenvolvimento e avaliação dos currículos educacionais, tornando-se direcionadoras de como os conteúdos devem ser selecionados, organizados e apresentados aos estudantes. A presente pesquisa trata de uma reflexão relacionada ao ensino superior de enfermagem em Moçambique, tem como objetivo realizar um apanhado histórico sobre a formação em enfermagem no país, bem como analisar as concepções curriculares de instituições (Públicas e Privadas) que formam enfermeiros em Moçambique, a partir de uma avaliação dos seus currículos. É uma pesquisa do tipo documental crítico reflexiva com abordagem qualitativa, onde foram analisados quatro currículos do curso de licenciatura em enfermagem sendo dois de instituições públicas e os outros dois pertencentes a instituições privadas. A pesquisa demonstrou que a ausência de uma base comum a nível nacional para a construção dos currículos pode influenciar na qualidade de ensino, consequentemente, a consolidação das competências técnicos-científicas básicas para o exercício profissional da enfermagem, levando com que enfermeiros formados tenham competências diferentes, embora recebam diplomas equivalentes. A existência de diretrizes comuns poderá minimizar as desigualdades entre os formandos impulsionando assim um ensino superior de enfermagem de qualidade. Palavras-chave: Concepções curriculares; Enfermagem; Ensino superior; Moçambique
Este texto abrange as reflexões de um trabalho de campo em acampamentos de deslocados de guerra, num trabalho com crianças em Cabo Delgado, Moçambique. Com enxertos do diário de campo e imagens produzidas na vivência com as crianças, aborda-se a experiência poética do sofrimento social das crianças e as marcas da violência registradas em seus corpos.
The racist structure of society expresses itself in the most diverse dimensions of life: from access to education and basic social rights to employability, and from the socioeconomic status, to the social relations of power present in everyday life. For the young population, a professional choice exposes their assessment of the past and present, thus creating paths and methods for projections about their future. The aim of the study was to describe, characterize, and analyze the future perspective of state-based black high school students in the city of Uberaba, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, through a cross-sectional gender analysis of the results. Being a qualitative-quantitative study, an online survey collected the data with a sample of the target population. The study involved 37 students from eleven state schools. The results indicate that black high school students in the sample cover the university and the labor market, although they feel insecure about the ecological transition involved in social environment changes. The study points out that the main difference between black women and men is in the future perspective of racial and gender equality, with women being more pessimistic than black men, similarly suggesting reflections that contribute to the formulation of anti-racist professional practices in the educational context in different levels of education.
IntroductionStrikes in the health sector have been of growing concern, given their disruptive nature, negatively impacting the provision of health care and jeopardizing the well-being of patients. This study aims to identify the main actors, the reasons behind industrial actions protests, strikes and lockouts (IAPSL) in sub-Saharan African countries and their impact on health care workers (specifically doctors) and health services, as well as to identify the main strategies adopted to reduce their impact on healthcare services.MethodsStudies published between January 2000 and December 2021 and archived in MEDLINE, Google Scholar, Scopus, ProQuest, and Science Direct were included. Quantitative, observational (i.e., cohort, case-control, cross-sectional, and ecological) and experimental studies, as well as mixed methods, quasi-experimental, and qualitative studies were eligibleResultsA total of 5521 studies were identified and after eliminating duplicates, applying the inclusion criteria, and assessing the risk of bias, a total of 11 studies were included in the review. Nurses and doctors are the actors most commonly involved in strikes. The main causes of strikes were salary claims and poor working conditions. The main strategies adopted to mitigate the strike consequences were to restrict services and prioritize emergency and chronic care, greater cooperation with the private sector and rearrange tasks of the available staff. The strikes led to a reduction in hospitalizations and in the number of women giving birth in health units, an increase in maternal and child morbidities and delays in the immunization process. Increased mortality was only reported in faith-based hospitals.DiscussionThis evidence can assist decision-makers in developing strategies and interventions to address IAPSL by health care workers, contributing to strengthen the health system. Strikes in the health sector disrupt healthcare services provision and compromise the well-being of patients, especially the most disadvantaged, with consequences that may be difficult to overcome ever. The potential health impacts of strikes highlights the importance of their prevention or timely resolution through regulation and negotiations to balance the rights of health care workers and the rights of patients.Systematic review registrationhttps://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.php?RecordID=334173, identifier CRD42022334173.
