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Poor personal hygiene and lack of knowledge about hand washing, leads to communicable diseases. Personal hygiene plays a major role to promote healthy life. The objective of this study is to promote hand washing and practices among primary school children in the Kasongo Municipality, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is a cross sectional descriptive study conducted on 294 school children of Kasongo municipality. All the students were interviewed with a structured questionnaire (pretest).

The objective of this work was to evaluate the presence of As in the tracajá tissue consumed by indigenous people and added to the environment by the gold mining activity. The study area was the Kayapó indigenous region, on the Baú river, in the municipality of Altamira-PA, Brazilian Amazon. HNO3 and microwave were used for sample digestion. As was quantified by Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry with Hydride Generation.

Budget execution is at the core of government businesses globally. This paper examines the effect of budget execution on health service deliver in Lira district, northern Uganda. We sampled two government-aided health Center IVs of Amach and Ogur in Lira district. We adopted a case study design and employed a mixed method approach. We sampled 78 respondents out of 96 health workers which included administrators, finance department, health workers, and health unit management committee. Simple random sampling technique and purposive sampling, were used to select the respondents.

Kolkata has always been a great hub of education for ages, not only in West Bengal but in the entire country. The history of Kolkata is reflected by its rich heritage sites as obviously. It was also the birthplace of modern Indian literary and artistic thoughts many Institutions have emerged in this Kolkata city. Among the various Institutes that arose in Kolkata is “Kolkata Asiatic Society”. It was established on 15 January, 1784 by the efforts of Sir William Jhones. He was a famous orientalist, poet and a judge of the Supreme Court at Kolkata.

This study explores the relationship of school dropout with poverty, having as interface the family with students in the modality of Youth and Adult Education (YAE). To this end, the context and influence of the family as a generational link of poverty is a premise for the issue of school dropout, age/grade distortion, and absenteeism. Indeed, many young people and adults who are unable to complete their studies build families and throughout their lives the generational poverty system is likely to be permeated by lack of educational qualification.

O envelhecimento é uma fase natural da vida do ser humano, o crescimento da população de idosos vem aumentando muito nos últimos anos, com isso, é gerada novas demandas que precisam ser atendidas, entre as várias necessidades existentes, a depressão entre idosos em Instituições de Longa Permanência é uma delas. O presente estudo tem como objetivo, identificar as principais causas da depressão em idosos institucionalizados. Para isso, foi desenvolvido uma revisão integrativa da literatura.

Objective: To evaluate the profile of dispensing contraceptives used by women in a drugstore in southern Minas Gerais. Methodology: Exploratory and descriptive field research. The chi-square test was used in the construction of confidence intervals (CI) for proportion and difference between two proportions, at the nominal level of 5% significance. Results: It was verified that the most frequent age group was 26 to 35 years (40.00%). When dealing with a medical prescription, 45 (73.77%) reported having been prescribed by the doctor. Regarding the time of use, 23 (37.70%) use 1 to 5 years.

O presente artigo, tem como objetivo principal analisaros fatores que interferem na qualidade de vida, levando ao estresse, afetando a saúde do Policial Penal no ambiente de trabalho em unidades prisionais no Estado de Rondônia, Brasil. Em termos metodológicos, foi utilizado método quantitativo. A investigação se com a aplicação de questionários aos policiais penais nas unidades analisadas.

O crescente desenvolvimento tecnológico impacta de forma significativa a dinâmica em diversos setores. O surgimento e o aprimoramento de tecnologias, como a digitalização tridimensional (3D), a captura e processamento de imagens e a manufatura aditiva (MA). A MA está cada vez mais presente no cotidiano e sua utilização já é uma realidade nas mais variadas áreas.

Objetivou-se analisar, frente à pandemia da COVID-19, as mudanças nos serviços de saúde mental e os impactos na assistência dirigida aos usuários de drogas. Através de pesquisa qualitativa, foram realizadas entrevistas semi estruturadas com profissionais de três diferentes CAPS em um município do Rio Grande do Sul, nos anos de 2017 e de 2021. Os dados foram submetidos à análise temática para sistematização dos resultados e subdivididos em três marcadores: 1 - Rotinas do serviço; 2 - Demanda do usuário; e 3- Redes de cuidado.