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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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"A spirit of benevolence": Manchester and the origins of modern public health, 1790-1834

Unknown Date (has links)
This thesis argues that the British Public Health movement did not begin in 1842 with Edwin Chadwick's publication, Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842), or in 1848, with the subsequent passage of the Public Health Act. The beginning of the public health movement was instead the product of local initiatives such as the Manchester Board of Health, administered not by central government, but by members of the local community supported by predominantly philanthropic funding. The Manchester movement predated Chadwick's efforts by at least half a century and bore a greater resemblance to the modern idea of an organized public health system than that advanced by Chadwick and his contemporaries. This is because the Manchester movement emphasized not only those sanitary ideas ascribed to Chadwick but also included a broader spectrum of public health measures, including but not limited to ; preventative medicine, occupational health, and the reduction of contagious diseases. / by Jennifer L. Boxen. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2013. / Includes bibliography. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / System requirements: Adobe Reader.
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Avaliação do desempenho luminoso de protetores solares verticais na iluminação natural em ambiente de internação hospitalar. / The luminous performance evaluation of mobile vertical sunshades on the daylight of a hospital collective stay room.

Medeiros, Renata da Costa Barbosa 01 April 2015 (has links)
Over the years new technologies and materials adopted in the buildings structure and composition have contributed to the development of modern concept buildings and the access, not always desirable, of light and heat. In Brazil, the great availability of daylight allows the creation of projects which use this environmental factor. On the other hand, excessive solar radiation, when uncontrolled, might damage the users’ thermal and visual comfort, through excessive heat gains, contrasts and glare. The solar shading elements begin to be apprehended as a possible solution to control the direct solar incidence on buildings. In Health Assistance Establishments, where lighting is a key element to avoid the confinement inside the rooms and to help on the patient’s cure process (users), the brise-soleil might represent an aggregator element in the search for more humanized internal spaces. In this context, this work aims to evaluate the luminous performance of mobile vertical sunshades on the daylight of a hospital collective stay room (adult infirmary) in Maceió (AL). To achieve the goal it was used as a tool the computer simulation software TropLux 6, three distinct angulations of the slats were proposed, with three different colors of finishes, in four orientations (North, South, East and West) and with different sky conditions (clear, overcast and partly cloudy). The simulation was accomplished considering all the days and months of the year, from 8a.m. to 4p.m. The provided results allowed checking the conditions of daylight as to the influence on the position of the blades, distribution and useful daylight illuminance inside a room, performing a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the sunshade’s efficiency on the case study. Therefore, it is intended to broaden the studies, as to the inclusion of mobile vertical solar control elements in Health Assistance Establishments (hospitals). / Com o passar dos anos as novas tecnologias e materiais empregados nas estruturas e composição das edificações contribuíram para a criação de edifícios conceitualmente modernos e a passagem, nem sempre desejável, de luz e calor. No Brasil, a grande disponibilidade de luz natural possibilita a concepção de projetos com maior aproveitamento desse condicionante ambiental. Por outro lado, entrada excessiva de radiação solar, quando não controlada, pode prejudicar o conforto térmico e visual dos usuários, através de ganhos excessivos de calor, contrastes e ofuscamento. Os elementos de proteção solar passam a ser vistos como possíveis solucionadores para controlar os efeitos da incidência solar direta nas edificações. Em Estabelecimentos Assistenciais de Saúde (EAS), onde a iluminação é considerada fundamental para evitar o confinamento dos ambientes internos e auxiliar no processo de cura dos pacientes (usuários), os brises podem se apresentar como um agregador na busca por ambientes internos mais humanizados. Dentro desse contexto, esse trabalho busca avaliar o desempenho luminoso de protetores solares verticais móveis na iluminação natural em um ambiente de internação coletiva hospitalar (enfermarias de adulto) em Maceió (AL). Para atingir o objetivo foi utilizado como ferramenta o programa de simulação computacional TropLux 6, propondo três angulações distintas para o posicionamento das aletas, com três diferentes cores de acabamentos, em quatro orientações (Norte, Sul, Leste e Oeste) e com diferentes condições de céu (claro, encoberto e parcialmente nublado). A simulação foi realizada considerando todos os dias e meses do ano, no horário das 8h às 16h. Os resultados fornecidos possibilitaram aferir as condições de iluminação natural quanto à influência no posicionamento das lâminas, distribuição e iluminância útil de luz natural (IULN) no interior do ambiente, realizando uma avaliação quantitativa e qualitativa da eficiência dos protetores solares no local de estudo. Assim, pretende-se ampliar os estudos, quanto à inclusão de elementos de controle solar verticais móveis em Estabelecimentos Assistenciais de Saúde (hospitais).
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A Palace for the Poor: The Knox County Infirmary and Nineteenth Century Social Reform in Rural Ohio

Brown, Aubrey E. 29 May 2013 (has links)
No description available.

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