Doing Field Work with Indigenous People in Brazilian Prisons

Do FAITH-BASED PRISONS WoRK?

This Article examines everything we know about the effectiveness of fa~th-based prisons, which is not very much. Most studies cannot be taken seriously because they are tainted by the "self-selection problem. " It is hard to determine the effect of faith-based prison programs because they are voluntary, and volunteers are more likely to be motivated to change and are therefore already less like...

AIDS in prisons: are we doing the right thing?

Doing Ethnographic Research among Indigenous Peoples

The World Bank, in its operational Policy 4.10, uses the term “indigenous peoples” to refer to a distinct, vulnerable, social and cultural group possessing the following characteristics in varying degrees: (a) Self-identification as members of a distinct indigenous cultural group and recognition of this identity by others; (b) collective attachment to geographically distinct habitats or ancestr...

HIV and syphilis in the context of community vulnerability among indigenous people in the Brazilian Amazon

BACKGROUND Contextual factors shape the risk of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and syphilis. We estimated the prevalence of both infections among indigenous people in nine indigenous health districts of the Brazilian Amazon and examined the context of community vulnerability to acquiring these infections. METHODS We trained 509 health care workers to screen sexually active popul...

[Professional education and work of indigenous health agents in the Brazilian health system].

OBJECTIVE To discuss the role of indigenous health agents in the implementation of the model of differentiated attention or intercultural health in Brazil. MATERIALS AND METHODS We revised the scientific literature about the work and professional education of indigenous health agents in the Brazilian indigenous health system. RESULTS There is a subordination of the agents to the hegemonic m...