Healthy living: meaning for the homeless in Santa Maria

• DOI: 10.5902/217976924413
• Publication Date: 2012-04-01
• Authors: Leandra Porto; Dirce Stein Backes; Grassele Denardin...; Regina Gema Santi...; Rosiane Filipin R...; Dirce Beatriz Mar...; Elenice Spagnolo ...

Objective: to search meaning of healthy living for street dweller Santa Maria, RS. Method: qualitative and explorative research. Results: twenty male individuals were interviewed, in the period February June 2009. The participators selected casually, with one criterion inclusion being dweller, or without temporary permanence hostel. Data analyzed under light hermeneutic interpretation, because this referential allows understanding profoundness text, discourse participators, when emerge three categories. Final considerations: while same dwellers live means liberty, others hostel abstain themselves alcohol ingestion illicit drugs, promoting so a