OBJECTIVE: to analyze how homeless people live, in times of COVID-19 pandemic, in the city of Rio de Janeiro. METHOD: an ethnographic research that used interviews and observations and articles published in newspapers and magazines of great circulation, using domain analysis. RESULTS: the results tell how the COVID-19 pandemic emerged for the homeless population. Isolation led to emptying the streets and reducing passers-by, damaging their ways of living and their survival tactics. Hunger, thirst, absence of places for bathing and for fulfilling physiological needs became part of their daily lives. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: given the impossibility of having a place to shelter, acquiring food and water and the limitations in carrying out preventive measures, care actions offered by managers to limit the virus to spread, even in this population, are ineffective.
OBJECTIVE: to analyze how homeless people live, in times of COVID-19 pandemic, in the city of Rio de Janeiro. METHOD: an ethnographic research that used interviews and observations and articles published in newspapers and magazines of great circulation, using domain analysis. RESULTS: the results tell how the COVID-19 pandemic emerged for the homeless population. Isolation led to emptying the streets and reducing passers-by, damaging their ways of living and their survival tactics. Hunger, thirst, absence of places for bathing and for fulfilling physiological needs became part of their daily lives. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: given the impossibility of having a place to shelter, acquiring food and water and the limitations in carrying out preventive measures, care actions offered by managers to limit the virus to spread, even in this population, are ineffective.
Authors: Rita de Cássia Ribeiro-Silva; Marcos Pereira; Érika Aragão; Jane Mary de Medeiros Guimarães; Andrêa J F Ferreira; Aline Dos Santos Rocha; Natanael de Jesus Silva; Camila Silveira Silva Teixeira; Ila Rocha Falcão; Enny Santos Paixao; Mauricio Lima Barreto Journal: Front Nutr Date: 2021-12-15
Authors: Kathryn Hodwitz; Janet Parsons; Clara Juando-Pratts; Esther Rosenthal; Amy Craig-Neil; Stephen W Hwang; Joel Lockwood; Paul Das; Tara Kiran Journal: CMAJ Open Date: 2022-07-19