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This is a quali-quantitative and descriptive study. Its objective is analyze the content and the structure of the social representations of nurses about the person with HIV/AIDS, considering the explicit and masked elements (mute zone). The subjects were 150 nurses of a university hospital in Rio de Janeiro. Free evocations and the technique of substitution were used for the data collection. Data analyze was developed thought the methodology of construction of the Picture of Four Houses and the statistical comparison of the evocations in normal and substitution situation, thought EVOC software. The results showed central elements for the normal situation: health education, professional protection and treatment. For the substitution, were identified: the fear, prejudice and homosexuality, which with others were the probable elements of the mute zone. The method is important to make profound studies of social representations of the HIV/AIDS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the make-up and state-of-the-art of the Unified Health System on the basis of representations among nurses at health institutions in Rio de Janeiro, with a view to identifying and characterizing health policies as actually implemented and the various practices employed in the municipality. The theory of representations and social memory was applied to 20 nurses at 5 institutions. Data collected in interviews were analyzed using ALCESTE 4.7 software. The results were organized into two thematic blocks: how the system is organized and constituted in representations, in terms of the classes "human resource policy" and "the process of anchoring the SUS". The system is organized to meet demand, comprising the classes "care in the context of the SUS" and "hierarchization of health system actions". It concludes that nurses are of the utmost importance in implementing the SUS and that the theoretical frame of reference used is appropriate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present work aimed at identifying and describing the images and the meanings present in the Aids's social representations among women attended in the health basic net. It is a qualitative study based on the social representations theory. There participated of the study 46 women attended in the services of attendance to the woman in eight health municipal centers. The data were collected with semi-structured interview and treated by the Alceste program. The result evidenced that the Aids is a contagious disease that means death being objectified as ugly, bad and dangerous, arising sentiments of suffering and fear. It is considered a pandemia that is disseminated by the irresponsibility of the "others". The prevention is the essential factor for the syndrom control. By its historical and social construction, propiciates the development of discrimination and preconcepts attitudes. The contents of this social presentation reveal aspects that are constituted in a tool to guide the assistance and educative practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]