Abstract The poor initial resilience of the ground-breaking Brazilian urban social housing programme ‘Minha Casa, Minha Vida’(MCMV) affects millions people, who have tried to adapt their homes, survived unexpected and reinvent themselves constantly. This study delimits elements that compose concept resilience, namely: impacts, vulnerabilities adaptive capacities characterize built environment i...

Until today, anti-microbial drugs have been the therapy of choice to combat bacterial diseases. Resistance against antibiotics is of growing concern in man and animals. Stress, caused by demanding environmental conditions, can reduce immune protection in the host, influencing the onset and outcome of infectious diseases. Therefore psychoneuro-immunological intervention may prove to be a success...

The pandemic experience from Covid-19 has heightened the awareness of impact that relational poverty on quality life, especially older people’s lives. obligation to stay inside their homes protect them risk infection had indirect effect precipitating many elderly people into a state solitude which, at least in part, city been protecting until then. shown how citizens live shortage relationships...