Editorial

· New goals for the future of Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
Goehl, Thomas J.; Oropeza, Carlos; Minayo, Maria Cecília de Souza; Contreras, Gustavo; Spinelli, Hugo

Debate

· The debate about the regulation of the medical act in Brazil
Guimarães, Regina Guedes Moreira; Rego, Sérgio

Discussants

· Debating the medical act
Machado, Maria Helena

· The "medical act" and medical education to attend the health interests of the society
Lampert, Jadete Barbosa

· The authors reply

Articles

· Challenges in the study of human and environmental contamination by pesticides
Peres, Frederico; Oliveira-Silva, Jefferson José; Della-Rosa, Henrique Vicente; Lucca, Sérgio Roberto de

· Environmental education and health workers' knowledge on risk situations
Alam, Miriam Maraninchi; Cezar-Vaz, Marta Regina; Almeida, Tabajara

· Waste material pickers and emancipation process
Velloso, Marta Pimenta

· Occurrence of Cryptosporidium spp. and others parasites in vegetables consumed in natura, Recife, Brazil
Silva, Celiane Gomes Maia da; Andrade, Samara Alvachian Cardoso; Stamford, Tânia Lúcia Montenegro

· Potential adverse effects of electromagnetic fields (50/60 Hz) on humans and animals
Anselmo, Caroline Wanderley Souto Ferreira; Bion, Francisca Martins; Catanho, Maria Teresa Jansem de Almeida; Medeiros, Maria do Carmo

· Ventilation and environmental tobacco smoke
Seelig, Marina Fonseca; Campos, Cláudia Rejane Jacondino de; Carvalho, Jonas da Costa

· Health and food safety: the pesticides issue
Stoppelli, Illona Maria de Brito Sá; Magalhães, Cláudio Picanço

· Occupational risks among dock workers in the Port of Mucuripe, Fortaleza, Brazil
Cavalcante, Francisco Fábio Gadelha; Gomes, Anna Caroline Nobre; Nogueira, Francisco Roberto de Araújo; Farias, João Luís Melo de; Pinheiro, João Maurício Ribeiro; Albuquerque, Emanuel Veras de; Farias, Antônio Leomar Peixoto; Cabral, Gabriel Barroso; Magalhães, Francisco Alexandre Cunha; Gomide, Márcia

· Lead poisoning in children and media discourse analysis
Tomita, Nilce Emy; Padula, Niura Aparecida de Moura Ribeiro; GEPICCB

· A knowledge management system for the Brazilian National Network of human milk banks
Maia, Paulo Ricardo da Silva; Novak, Franz Reis; Almeida, João Aprígio Guerra de; Silva, Danielle Aparecida da

· Information on medicines in the media: a contribution to rational use?
Lage, Eloína Araújo; Freitas, Maria Imaculada de Fátima; Acurcio, Francisco de Assis

· Level of community information and use of mechanisms for social participation in health in two municipalities of Northeast Brazil
Vázquez, María Luisa; Silva, Maria Rejane Ferreira da; Gonzalez, Eliane Siqueira Campos; Diniz, Alcides da Silva; Pereira, Ana Paula Campos; Veras, Ida Cristina Leite; Arruda, Ilma Kruze Grande de

· A contribution from the Carlos Matus management systems to communicative management
Kopf, Águida Wichrowski; Hortale, Virginia Alonso

· Communicative action, democracy and health
Melo, Elza Machado de

· Drugs, communication, and culture
Nascimento, Marilene Cabral do

· The Open University Program experience and its contributions to social transformation
Kligerman, Débora Cynamon; Cohen, Simone Cynamon; Cynamon, Szachna Eliasz; Silva, Cintia Ribeiro da; Seabra, Lilia dos Santos

· Programs and campaigns to promote physical activity
Ferreira, Marcos Santos; Najar, Alberto Lopes

· Application of Ministry of Health guidelines for humane childbirth in a hospital in Santa Catarina, Brazil
Reis, Adriana Elias dos; Patrício, Zuleica Maria

· Home health care: subsidies for a primary care project in Brazil
Rehem, Tânia Cristina Morais Santa Bárbara; Trad, Leny Alves Bomfim

· The role of family and primary network in the reform of social policies
Serapioni, Mauro

· Public health care and alternative medicine
Sousa, Islândia Maria Carvalho de; Vieira, Ana Luiza Stiebler

· Is alcoholism a contagious disease? Representations on contagion and disease of ex-drinkers
Campos, Edemilson Antunes de

· Preventive strategies in oral health promotion
Antonio, Andréa Gonçalves; Maia, Lucianne Cople; Vianna, Roberto Braga de Carvalho; Quintanilha, Luís Eduardo Lavigne Paranhos

· Pharmacoeconomics: resultant perspective of decisions process
Secoli, Silvia Regina; Padilha, Kátia Grillo; Litvoc, Júlio; Maeda, Sayuri Tanaka

· Dentistry attention in the family's health program (FHP) in Campos dos Goytacazes
Oliveira, José-Luiz Carvalho de; Saliba, Nemre Adas

· User satisfaction assessment
Esperidião, Monique; Trad, Leny Alves Bomfim

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