Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2004Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:39:17Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 pacheco_rd_me_botfm.pdf: 1115076 bytes, checksum: 93ce87fbe860ad9cdd822743e8e7e4b9 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A deficiência física é um fenômeno biológico e social, que atinge aproximadamente 10% da população e traz grandes dificuldades para a vida cotidiana do portador e de sua família. Dificuldades que não estão relacionadas apenas às limitações auditivas, visuais, mentais, físicas e/ou motoras, mas principalmente àquelas imposta pela sociedade e pelo capital e se manifesta muitas vezes através da segregação, do estigma e do preconceito. Nesse estudo limitamo-nos a estudar os portadores de deficiência física, buscando descrever e discutir as condições em que eles vivem. Essa pesquisa foi desenvolvida na cidade de Botucatu – São Paulo. Inicialmente foi feito um inquérito em 25% dos domicílios da área urbana de Botucatu, para localizar os portadores de deficiência física. Identificados os endereços, selecionamos apenas os que residem na área do Centro Saúde Escola. Fizemos uma caracterização biomédica e social dos portadores de deficiência física e suas famílias, utilizando um roteiro com questões abertas e fechadas. Foram entrevistadas 82 famílias e 93 pessoas portadoras de deficiência física. Observamos que no município de Botucatu há uma maior prevalência de pessoas portadoras de deficiência física em áreas de alta exclusão social. Em relação às pessoas portadoras de deficiência física temos que 51% são do sexo masculino. A idade média é de 49 anos, 36,3% tem mais de 60 anos. A escolaridade média é 4,2 anos de estudos. A maioria é aposentado, pensionista ou inativo (71%). Apenas 14,5% estão ocupados e destes, 45,5%, estão inseridos em atividades predominantemente manuais não especializadas. O rendimento médio é de 0,9 salários mínimos e 39,2% não possuem nenhuma fonte de renda. A família das pessoas portadora de deficiência física tem em média 3,7 pessoas, 57,5% das famílias são do... . / Physical disability is a social and biological phenomenon, which assails around 10% of the population and brings significant difficulties to the everyday life of the disabled person. Such difficulties are not only related to auditory, visual, mental, physical and/or motor limitations but mainly to those established by society and capital and most of the times it is demonstrated through segregation, stigma and prejudice. Physically disabled people were the aim of this study and their living conditions were discussed and described. This research was carried in Botucatu – São Paulo. At first, a survey was performed in 25% of houses in the urban area of Botucatu to identify the physically disabled people. When the addresses were identified, one selected only the ones, which lived at “Centro de Saúde Escola” vicinities. A biomedical and social characterization was performed on physically disabled people and their families, following open and closed questions round. One observed that in Botucatu there is a higher prevalence of physically disabled people among high social excluded ones. Related to physically disabled people, 51% are male. Average age is 49 years old, 36.3% is more than 60 years old. Average education is 4.2 years of study, most of them are retired, pensioner or inactive. (71%). Only 14.5% have an occupation and from these 45.5% are inserted in predominantly non-specialized manual activities. Average income is 0.9 minimum wages and 39. 2% do not have any income. The family of physically disabled people has an average of 3.7 people; 57.5% of families are cellular like, and from these, 18.8% are extended families, which are being dispersed. According to the scale used by Seade Foundation, 17% of families are considered wretched, 71% poor and 12,1% not poor. The major part of physical disability was acquired in adulthood (43%), and the main causes are chronic-degenerative... (Complete abstract, click electronic address below).

The dissertation concerning a given topic {\clqq}Customs, festivities and way of life in Bavaria`` focuses on one federal country in Germany and the process of its festivals and traditions. The work is divided into 3 parts, where there is gradually explained the wide range of traditions. In the introduction there are mentioned and described the particular terms used in the work. At the beginning the reader is informed about the typical local traditions in individual regions of Bavaria. The separation of this federal country gives the possibility to compare traditions and festivals. In the following parts there are chapters where the seasons of the year are defined. There are mentioned the festivals and traditions according to their occurrence in actual season of the year {--} the religion festivals, the agricultural traditions and other celebrations. In some examples there is briefly described the gastronomy of the festival. In the last part of the work there is compared some Bavor´s festivals to Czech ones. The choice is limited on the main religion festivals, which are held in both countries. There is mainly described the process and variety of Christmas and Easter celebrations. The all three parts of the work are completed with the enclosed maps and pictures. These enclosures can help the reader to make the complete conception of the mentioned traditions and festivals. The aim of this work is first of all the introduction of different celebrations in Bavaria and giving such kind of the formation that can push out the frontiers of culture knowledge.

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Os desafios que o crescente aumento da população idosa coloca na estruturaçao urbana nos motivou a elaborar essa dissertação a fim de entender o processo de envelhecimento, as condições de moradia atual dos idosos e as favoráveis técnicas na construção de ambientes facilitadores diante de declínios da capacidade física decorrente do envelhecimento com a finalidade elaborar princípios projetuais apropriados para todas as pessoas. Utilizou-se como base referencias bibliográficas e visitas a conjuntos habitacionais exclusivos para idosos e edifícios com grande volume de moradores idosos no Estado de São Paulo. / The challenges the increasing urban places in structuring motivated us to develop this dissertation in order to understand the aging process, the current housing conditions of the elderly and favorable techniques in building enabling environments face of declines in physical capacity due to aging in order to draw up appropriate projective principles for all people. It was used as a reference base bibliographic and visits to unique housing for elderly and buildings with large amount of elderly residents the State of São Paulo.

Masters of Art / Measuring poverty adequately is critical for any type of development project, and yet there are still no clear guidelines as to which approach is best to be used for different circumstances. There is a variety of different ways of measuring and understanding poverty, each with their own advantages and disadvantages, depending on the intended goal. This research explored the theory regarding poverty and poverty measurements, and research various perspectives ranging from income to basic needs, socail exclusion, sustainable livelihoods, and finally to the Human Development Approach. / South Africa

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / This study investigates workers’ perceptions of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) practices on elections and living wage issues from a social movement perspective from the Apartheid (South Africa) and Unilateral Declaration of Independence (Zimbabwe) eras to 2009. The trade union social movement perspective refers to labour movements that develop a socio-political character, and concern themselves not only with workplace issues but with broad social and political issues. A study of COSATU and ZCTU practices in South Africa and Zimbabwe at this time in the field of social movements is consistent with current calls for a conceptual shift, away from looking for invariant causes and effects to looking for mechanisms and processes that occur in many different kinds of movements and that lead to different outcomes depending on the specific contexts within which they occur. The study draws insights from social movement unionsm theory to understand mechanisms and processes pursued by COSATU and ZCTU in seeking to influence policy outcomes. This study used a qualitative approach and a case study strategy. In the study, questionnaire and in-depth interview responses were drawn from COSATU secretariat, two affiliates, the South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) and National Union of Mine Workers (NUM). Questionnaire and in-depth responses were also drawn from the ZCTU secretariat, two affiliates, the General Agriculture and Plantation Workers Union of Zimbabwe (GPWUZ) and the Zimbabwe Urban Municipal Workers Union (ZUMWU). The objective was to gain insights from a broad cross-section of union members – blue-collar workers, professionals, state or semi state institution workers and ordinarily low income farm workers. The study concludes that workers’ perceptions of the two labour social movements is that they can influence changes in the political system (through elections) as a means to securing living wages by engaging in five practices, namely, disruption mechanisms, public preference mechanisms, political access mechanisms, judicial mechanisms and international access mechanisms. However, while the study noted that workers perceive COSATU and ZCTU practices as essential in influencing elections and living wage issues, the popularity of the mechanisms was lower in Zimbabwe where workers often face persecution. In South Africa, utilisation of these practices is also affected by the less militant public sector affiliates and non- standard forms of work such as subcontracting, casualisation, informalisation, externalisation and the ballooning informal sector. Given these problems, social movement trade unionism remains a viable means of representing the interests of the working poor. Establishment of these challenges leads to areas of possible further research such as how the unions can effectively represent the unorganised workers of the informal sector. A broader research on the impact of the exponential growth of non-standard forms of work is also relevant at this time in the two countries.

Class of 2005 Abstract / Objectives: To determine if delivery of medications to an independent living facility increases patient adherence. Methods: Retrospective review of patient pharmacy refill records was completed using a data extraction form in order to calculate a number of days deviation from a projected refill date based on days supply. Data on the use of express pay, auto fill, and delivery service and payment type was collected as well as age and gender. Residents of The Fountains independent living facility were eligible to be included in this study if they had complete data in the pharmacy refill records for at least one scheduled maintenance medication taken for a continuous, three-month period. Results: There were 21 subjects in the delivery group and 18 in the pick-up group. Both groups were primarily women (76.2 percent and 61.1 percent respectively). Age was also similar (85.8 and 83.8, p=0.285). The delivery group had significantly more maintenance medications than the pick-up group (mean=2.8, SD=1.1 and mean=1.7, SD=1.1 respectively). Seven of the nine time deviations were greater for the pick-up group than for the delivery group (p= 0.09 for sign test). Implications: It appears that a delivery service can increase adherence, particularly in a population of advanced age.

Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document / Dissertation (MPH)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH) / MPH / Unrestricted

At the outset, I dis-claim any knowledge or understanding what-so-ever, which is a peculiar stance to take for a nurse educator immersed in the language of “expertise,” “best practices,” and “champion” healthcare offerings. I do not dis-claim knowledge to absolve my professional accountability, nor do I absolve myself of being responsible for my text, rather I apprehend this journey of sentience and incarnation as an infant experiencing and learning the world in which it finds itself. It is only through a naïve, furtive play that I am able to proceed, through the difficulties and paradoxical tensions of constructed identities, without complete paralysis. As I play and ponder my way through multiple methodologies, a representational form emerges between repetitious moments of contemplation, remembering lived experiences, and reflecting on philosophical discourses. The difficulty or tension lies in the provocation of identities, as nurse, educator, and mother, among many other stances and formulations. Each identified discourse compels me to challenge the gaps in my knowledge in new ways. As I explore, I unravel the forms of text that are various incarnations of narrative reflection. The choices I make are about inquiring through concept, form and identification, which I both uniquely challenge as an individual and hold in common by being socially and historically situated. Each transition, contemplation and provocation is hopeful and volatile. I am always attuned to how it is that I live the spaces between each, unknowing my “self” as my otherness, letting go the ideal/real and becoming the (/) through a relational pedagogy. / Education, Faculty of / Graduate

Purpose: Toileting is an activity of daily living that is often difficult to perform independently for rehabilitation patients, which can be detrimental to the patient’s self-esteem and hygiene. Technology-Assisted Toilets (TATs) are commercially-available toilet seats which clean the user with a stream of water, and have a fan for drying. TATs are operated by a wall-mounted remote control. This thesis investigated whether TATs could improve stroke and geriatric rehabilitation patients’ ability to clean themselves independently after a bowel movement, and improve psychosocial outcomes when toileting. Methods: Stroke rehabilitation participants answered the Psychosocial Impact of Assistive Devices Scales (PIADS) to assess the psychosocial impact of their regular toileting, then used the TAT for a bowel movement on three occasions. In geriatric rehabilitation, participants completed two bowel movement trials; one using regular toileting and one using the TAT. In both studies, participants answered the PIADS and were visually assessed for cleanliness after each trial. Results: Stroke rehabilitation patients had significantly higher PIADS when using the TAT. TATs cleaned participants completely in 73% of BM trials. In geriatric rehabilitation, participants gave TATs higher PIADS scores than regular toileting, but the difference was not statistically significant. Cleanliness level was equal between TAT and regular toileting. Conclusions: These pilot studies show that TATs have the potential to be useful assistive devices for stroke and geriatric rehabilitation patients who have difficulty cleaning themselves independently in the bathroom. PIADS scores in both studies suggest that participants would be unlikely to abandon using TATs.