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Mental Health promotion strategies are important protective resources for people's well-being. Positive Mental Health is one of these strategies and has been widely studied in the university context. Therefore, elements that clarify the conduct of such studies would help in the development of new research.The PCC strategy was used, where the population was established as the university community, including students, professors and employees belonging to any undergraduate and graduate course. The concept under analysis is Positive Mental Health and the context is the university environment worldwide.

Violence against women is endemic in all countries and cultures, causing harm to millions of women and their families, and has been exacerbated by the pandemic of COVID-19, it affects an estimated 641 million people, yet 6% of women worldwide report having been sexually abused by someone other than their husband or partner, by underreporting it can be stated that the actual number is probably significantly higher. It is estimated that 37% of women living in the poorest countries have experienced physical and/or sexual violence from their partner in their lifetime, with some of these countries having a prevalence of up to one in two women. Younger women are at the greatest risk of recent violence. Among those who have been in a relationship, the highest rates (16%) of partner violence in the past 12 months occurred among 15-24 year olds.1 This impacts a woman's health and well-being for the rest of her life, and is associated with increased risk of injury, depression, anxiety disorders, unintended pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections including HIV, and many other health problems. Preventing violence requires addressing systemic economic and social inequalities, ensuring access to education and safe work, and changing gender discriminatory norms and institutions. Successful interventions also include strategies that ensure that essential services are available and accessible to survivors, that support women's organizations, challenge unjust social norms, reform discriminatory laws, and strengthen legal responses, among others. The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, in its sixteenth article, peace, justice, and effective institutions, aim to significantly reduce all forms of violence and mortality rates. Therefore, it is necessary that governmental, educational, and research institutions develop investigations based on the design of population surveys, as a way to subsidize the formulation and evaluation of public policies to combat violence. In view of the above, this proposal aims to develop a systematic search for studies on population surveys on domestic, intrafamily, intimate partner, and sexual violence, including approaches on sexual behavior and sexual and gender diversity.

The consumption of alcohol and other drugs is a serious problem worldwide, characterized as one of the global priorities of public health, mental health and sustainable development. Therefore, considering the public health perspective, the planning of programs and public policies must consider large portions of the population. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), agenda 2030, recommended by the United Nations (UN), indicate in their third objective, good health and well-being and, as a specific objective, to strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance use, including the use of alcohol and other drugs. Estimates regarding the use of alcohol and other drugs released in 2021 by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) indicate that among 275 million users of any type of drug, approximately 36.3 million, or almost 13%, may present disorders due to drug use, which represents the need for treatment for dependence. This corresponds to a prevalence of drug use disorders of 0.7% globally among the population aged between 15 and 64 years, representing one of the main risk factors for death and disability in Brazil and in the world, also demonstrating the extent of its use and its impact on the health of the population.2As the analysis shows, the population growth projection for 2030 translates into a potential 11% increase in the global population that uses drugs, with a greater impact in low-income countries than in high-income countries. Consideration of a broader context, including other projected demographic changes related to age, sex distribution and urbanization, could result in an even greater increase in the total number of people who use drugs in low-income countries. Added to the fact that in the year 2020, humanity was affected by COVID-19, and that its social impact caused an increase in inequality, poverty and mental health conditions, especially among already vulnerable populations, with the the sum of these factors can lead more people to consume drugs. In Brazil, these estimates point to the need to invest in the production, dissemination and sharing of knowledge and technologies to strengthen the Unified Health System (SUS) and contribute to the promotion of health and quality of life for the population, in the sense of promoting the reduction of social inequalities and producing innovation projects, defending the right to health and citizenship.Thus, we affirm the need for the development of research that can use population surveys as subsidies for the formulation and evaluation of public policies, which are becoming increasingly popular in several countries as a tool to support health planning. Brazil has some research groups working in this area in relation to the use of alcohol and other drugs, but there is no systematic monitoring, along the lines of what is carried out by the European Observatory on Drugs, the European Monitoring Center for Drug and Drug Addiction. (EMCDDA), mapping the consumption of different substances in different regions of Europe. Given the above, this proposal aims to search for studies of population health surveys that address strategies for collecting and analyzing data on the epidemiology of the use of alcohol and other drugs.