Thematic connections between cordel and information for the health

Abstract

With the objective of presenting research results, different fields of study disseminate information and knowledge produced, contributing to the well-being, citizenship and development of society. From this perspective, it arises the question as to what are the scientific, social and informative contents disseminated with the connection of knowledge and practices related to cordel literature and health. In this sense, it was sought to identify in scientific publications, content that expresses relationships between both themes, as well as to investigate the associated areas of knowledge. This is a bibliographic, descriptive study based on a quantitative and qualitative approach to analyzing publications available on SciELO, without delimitation of period or areas of knowledge. 31 publications that mentioned the theme of cordel literature were retrieved. It was observed that 13 of them established relationships between the popular literary genre and the theme of health. Given the results, there is a need for more studies linking cordel literature and health, especially from the perspective of Information Science, an area that organizes and mediates the production, representation, dissemination and use of information and knowledge in all research fields.