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O objetivo deste trabalho foi mostrar número de acidentes de trânsito em Campina Grande – PB, os dados dos acidentes de trânsito foram coletados: SAMU, CPTran, NUMOL e a central de polícia. Com intuito de identificar locais críticos de acidentes, e tomar medidas tanto corretivas, quanto preventivas para redução dos acidentes na cidade, durante o ano de 2016. O trabalho foi conduzido na Superintendência de Trânsito e Transportes Públicos – STTP, no município de Campina Grande – PB.

Biological treatment consists on using living organisms to remove pollutes from substrates. This research aimed at evaluating and comparing the efficiency of two macrophyte species in removing polluting substances of brewery effluent, as a sustainable technologic alternative, using natural resources. The design was a system experimental in mesocosmos (open top tanks of 100 L) composed by two treatments represented by each specie (Salvinia molesta and Limnobiumlaevigatum) with four repetitions each one.

Objective: To describe the maternal mortality profile of a high-risk maternal and child hospital in the Northeast. Methods: This is a quantitative, descriptive, retrospective and cross-sectional study, carried out at Hospital Dom Malan, located in Petrolina, Pernambuco Brazil, with secondary data from medical records of women who died due to direct and indirect obstetric causes, during pregnancy or up to 42 days postpartum, with an investigation completed by the Hospital Commission for a study on Maternal Mortality at the same institution, during the period from 2013 to 2017.

This study aimed to investigate possible socioeconomic impacts that COVID-19 would cause among Brazilian dentists. An opinion poll was conducted through an online questionnaire containing socioeconomic and demographic aspects of 1240 Brazilian dentists, in addition to questions about the risks of dental care and the practice of professionals during the second week of social isolation in most states in Brazil.

We conducted a cross-sectional, descriptive, and quantitative study to assess the patient safety climate from the perspective of nursing professionals from five public hospitals in the state of Maranhão, Brazil. We applied the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire to a sample of 390 participants. Data were processed using the Statistical Package for Social Science version 22.0 and examined by analytical statistics. We found that patient safety climate was below expectations in the studied hospitals. We also identified that professionals are exposed to fragile working conditions for quality.

The maintenance of existing pavements with a good quality is one of the key challenges to the pavement engineers. The pavement condition monitoring and evaluation is a complex task to proceed for making decisions regarding the appropriate maintenance strategies. Generally, the Pavement Condition Evaluation involves in measuring the roughness, skidding index and pavement distresses. The fatigue cracking is one of the major distresses occurring in flexible pavements. The present research study focused on detecting the fatigue cracking using the Digital Image Processing (DIP).

Descrever o uso de drogas em famílias que convivem em comunidade com elevada circulação de drogas. Estudo quantitativo, de corte transversal, por inquérito domiciliar e amostragem probabilística aleatória. Foi aplicado questionário estruturado à moradores de 358 domicílios de um conjunto habitacional em um município do noroeste do Paraná. Os dados foram analisados no Software de análise estatística R. Trinta por cento das famílias informaram a presença de usuário de drogas no domicílio.

The present work corresponds to a reflection about several theories and approaches of the learning and their relevance in the training of social agents, reflection that emerges from the practice of the training, and attending to the fact that the meaning of what it implies to learn and how it is that is learned is not at the center of the discussion in universities in Latin America, which emphasizes more what to teach rather than how to teach.

Objetivo: Avaliar a percepção das mulheres sobre o nascimento e os cuidados recebidos pelos profissionais de saúde. Métodos: Trata-se de um estudo de caráter descritivo, exploratório, qualitativo, realizado por meio de entrevista semi-estruturada baseada nas técnicas de organização e Análise de Conteúdo. O estudo constituiu-se de 30 mulheres que passaram pela experiência do nascimento em um município do Rio de Janeiro/Brasil. Os dados foram coletados através de um questionário com caracterização das entrevistadas e 12 questões com informações sobre o objeto do estudo.

Avaliar a percepção do paciente renal crônico sobre as implicações decorrentes do desequilíbrio volêmico. Trata-se de um estudo exploratório, descritivo, com abordagem qualitativa, realizado em uma clínica de hemodiálise no município de Maracanaú-Ce. O estudo teve a participação de 21 pacientes com DRC em atendimento clínico. Os critérios de inclusão foram pacientes maiores de 18 anos, sem exclusões. A coleta de dados ocorreu de junho a agosto de 2020, através de uma entrevista semiestruturada.