Copenhagen: WHO/Regional Office for Europe, 1984. * Address: Caixa Postal 549, Botucatu, SP, 18.618-970 1 [??] health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity [??].(WHO, 1948, p.1) 2 All the quotations present in the text were translated from Portuguese into English. 3 Philanthropic entities are always presented as worthy c