Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:27:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MOACIR WUO.pdf: 1489666 bytes, checksum: 743c8993110fe948cdbf74b22e33cdfd (MD5) Previous issue date: 1998-06-19 / The aim of this study was to explore the Social Representations of teachers about HIV/AIDS and Programs for AIDS Prevention in School. 54 teachers from Technical High Schools in S?o Paulo were taken. An open and close quiz was used about AIDS: notion of the disease, ways of transmission, prevention, AIDSteens and prejudice - and about Programs of Prevention of AIDS in School: functions, difficulties, responsibilities and possibilities of involvement. The answers were treated and analyzed by the Contents Analysis technique. Results showed that teachers had satisfactory knowledge about the disease, ways of transmission and prevention; there s an idea about groups of risk and how transmission factors among teenagers, pointed to behavior, consider that theses have the function to inform, and they are responsibility of Health Secretary, and must be conducted by Biology teachers; they showed difficulty on psycho-social questions and so much interest in participating. It seemed to be a lack of reflection on the implication of AIDS-adolescence-Process of Education and about the possibility of Prevention Program and they make behavioral changes which are desirable and consistent among teenagers / O objetivo deste estudo foi explorar as Representa??es Sociais de professores sobre o HIV/AIDS e Programas de Preven??o da AIDS na Escola. Foram sujeitos 54 professores de Escolas T?cnicas de 2? Grau do Estado de S?o Paulo. Utilizou-se de um question?rio com quest?es abertas e fechadas sobre a AIDS: no??es da doen?a, formas de transmiss?o, preven??o, AIDS-adolescentes e preconceitos - e sobre Programas de Preven??o da AIDS na Escola: fun??es, dificuldades, responsabilidades e possibilidades de envolvimento. As respostas foram tratadas e analisadas pela t?cnica de An?lise de Conte?do. Os resultados obtidos indicaram que os professores apresentaram conhecimentos satisfat?rios sobre a doen?a, sobre formas de transmiss?o e preven??o; h? id?ia sobre grupos de risco e como fatores de transmissibilidade da AIDS entre adolescentes, apontaram o comportamento, o sexo e uso de drogas e, com rela??o a Programas de Preven??o, consideram que estes t?m fun??o de informar, s?o de responsabilidade da Secretaria da Sa?de, devem ser conduzidos pelos professores de Biologia; apontaram como dificuldades quest?es psicossociais e t?cnicas e manifestaram interesse em participar. Pareceu faltar uma a??o reflexiva sobre as implica??es AIDS-adolesc?ncia-processo educacional e sobre a possibilidade de Programas de Preven??o promoverem mudan?as comportamentais desej?veis e consistentes entre os adolescentes

Falls with or without injuries among the elderly have become a public health concern, with falls among adults age 65 years and older increasing every year. Nurses play a role in ensuring patient safety by following fall prevention guidelines. The purpose of this evidence-based study was to implement the RE-AIM evaluation tool to determine the impact of the Safe Five program on staff compliance with the program; patients' awareness of the need for falls prevention; and falls among older adults, ages 65 years and older, admitted to an acute care nursing unit. The literature supports implementing a falls prevention program with multifactorial and interdisciplinary components, and an evaluation plan to help decrease falls in acute care settings. The Safe Five falls prevention program was implemented on the acute care nursing unit in an effort to decrease the inpatient falls rate on the unit. The inpatient falls data were collected retrospectively, 2 years pre implementation of the Safe Five program, and 8 to 10 months post implementation. Data were collected from the Safe Five checklists, recorded inpatient fall rates, and high fall risk chart audits provided by staff and nurse manager; they were then analyzed using the RE-AIM evaluation tool. The long-term effects of the Safe Five program include an 18% increase in patients' awareness of the importance of preventing falls, an 18% increase in staff compliance with the program, and a 14% decrease in inpatient fall rate on the unit. It is projected that the decrease in inpatient falls will result in decreased healthcare costs and improved patient satisfaction with the healthcare system, communication among the interdisciplinary team, and health outcomes for the patients.

The teen pregnancy rate in Henry County, Tennessee has increased over the years. The purpose of this project was to develop an evidence-based family life education policy for possible adoption by the board of education to address the persistent high teen pregnancy rate for girls aged 15-17 in the county. This present study resulted in a revised policy that was based on a comprehensive policy termed Abstinence-Centered Plus Contraception. An 18-member collaborative, organizational, and community project team, made up of community leaders, nurses, counselors, teachers, and students, assisted in the development and adoption of the policy, practice guidelines, and the development of implementation and evaluation plans for the newly adopted policy. The theoretical framework was based on the social, cognitive, and behavior change theories. The program logic model served as a framework to monitor its progress. Existing peer-reviewed literature, including research studies, state and national teen pregnancy prevention projects and curriculum, and publicly available statistics, were gathered and reviewed by the project team as background to be used for developing and changing policy at the institutional level. Project monitoring involved tracking processes surrounding policy and practice guideline development and adoption, as well as implementation and evaluation plan development for the adopted policy and whether these processes progressed as the empirically-derived teen pregnancy prevention projects should when changing sex education policy at the organizational level. This project resulted in policy adoption and developing a policy implementation and evaluation plan to be disseminated within a county school system that could decrease teen pregnancy rates and demonstrate positive outcomes.

The need to provide preventive programs is highlighted by professionals across medical disciplines. Preventive programs help improve health, are an effective strategy to reduce healthcare costs, and specifically contribute to improving the quality of life of population. After all, prevention is the first thing we can do and it does not cost us anything but time. In addition, once a disease outbreaks, it may be already too late. All health insurance companies establish a prevention fund which helps to cover prevention programs for the insured. The VZP insurance company offers programs dealing with cardiovascular diseases, obesity, diabetes mellitus, vaccination, prevention of infectious diseases, medical and spa holidays, pregnancy screening tests, etc. My thesis aims to explore the use of prevention programs by the insured of the VZP insurance company. Based on the stated goal of my work, I have defined following assumed hypotheses. H1: Women use the prevention programs more than men do. H2: Insured persons who have obtained university education benefit from the preventive programs offered by the VZP health insurance company more than the insured persons without higher education. I chose qualitative research and a questionnaire survey as a suitable method for testing the set hypotheses. As a result of the research, the first hypothesis was confirmed, namely that women use preventive programs more than men. The second hypothesis was not confirmed. It has not been proven that preventive programs are used more by university educated insured persons. The thesis is focused on prevention and provides an overview of preventive programs, which are currently provided by the VZP insurance company. Therefore it is beneficial not only for VZP insured persons but also for all who are interested in prevention, and can also serve as a study material.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-01T17:54:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-07-10. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2016-04-01T18:00:31Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000564022.pdf: 4802904 bytes, checksum: beab4bbde209bc8ed0f6fe964c936821 (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Atualmente, no campo da engenharia de produção o termo desenvolvimento sustentável está sendo amplamente divulgado como uma oportunidade para melhoria na qualidade de vida que alia conservação e proteção do meio ambiente. Ao se observar a questão da poluição industrial, é possível perceber que ela vem agravando a deterioração do meio ambiente e da saúde pública, conseqüentemente, exigindo uma nova postura das empresas no sentido de mitigar seus impactos ambientais. Neste sentido, emergiu o objetivo deste trabalho: diagnosticar as ações ambientais das indústrias calçadistas considerando, a priori, a importância local do pólo produtivo calçadista de Franca-SP. Assim, desenvolveu-se uma estrutura teórica baseada em Sistema de Gestão Ambiental, Legislação Ambiental e Programas de Prevenção à Poluição, cada qual com um instrumento em evidência, quer seja a norma ISO 14001, o Licenciamento Ambiental e o Programa Produção mais Limpa. Todos estes elementos subsidiaram detalhamentos específicos dentro do contexto em que se examinavam ações efetivas praticadas por empresas calçadistas. Sucintamente, os resultados alcançados na pesquisa exploratória nos levou a perceber que há uma lacuna entre os benefícios apresentados na literatura sobre a ISO 14001 e a real percepção dos empresários entrevistados; basicamente, estes mesmos (empresários) apenas reagem para não serem punidos, fato que adverte a relevância de se manter controles mais rígidos sobre ferramentas como o Licenciamento Ambiental e, por último, concluiu-se que o Programa Produção mais Limpa se apresenta com potencial para articular as ações ambientais identificadas, partindo da aplicação de know-how na gestão privada para a articulação à governança pública, visando mudanças de atitudes para melhoria ambiental na cadeia calçadista como um todo. Portanto, os resultados dessa pesquisa identificaram ações tímidas e incipientes... / In the hole world, sustainable development to improve life quality with environment protection is becoming a strong and weel aceptable idea. It is possible to observe that industrial pollution is increasing enviroment and health deterioration, and so, demanding a new attitude from organizations concerning their environment impacts. So, the objective of this paper is to diagnose environmental actions in shoes manufactures, a priori, the importance of local shoes industries in Franca city. So, a theorictical structure was developed based in Environmental Management System, Laws, and Pollution Prevention Programs, each one with a tool, such as ISO 14001, Environmental Licensing and More Clean Production Program. All these elements helped in specific detail in a context that elective actions were studies. The results obtained in the research made us realize that there is a void between benefits presented in the literature about ISO 14001 and real perception of interviewed managers: they just react to avoid legal punishments, wat points the need to keep more rigorous controlson tools such as Environmental Licensing and, at last, it was concluded that More Clean Production Program presented a potential to articulate environment action, applying know-how in private management to public governança, willing to change attitudes to environments improve in shoes supply chain as a hole. So, results of this research identified shy ans incipients actions from interviewed managers to the sustentability of the sector.

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Introduction Substance use in adolescents with disabilities is rising, containing the prevalence of substance-related disorders (SRD) such as addiction, mental or health disorders, cancer, accidents and mortality. Yet little is known about the existing substance use prevention programs among adolescents with dosabilities or physical impairments. The aim of this systematic review was to investigate the effects of school-based interventions or prevention programs directed at the reduction of alcohol, tobacco and drug use in young adolescents with disabilities or physical impairments. Method Five scientific databases were explored mainly for school-based randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and prevention programs examining the effects of substance use interventions and prevention programs on adolescents with disabilities or physical impairments. Guided by the NICE guidelines, eligible articles were detected from which data were collected. A systematic literature review was performed for many diverse outcomes such as, substance use knowledge, substance use, modelling social environment, intention to quit smoking, peer pressure, etc. Results The primary literature search resulted in 821 articles. Five studies were incuded in the systematic literature review. Most of the collected studies were about adolescents with intellectual disabilities (MBID or MMID). The review's sample group ranged from 12-to 18-year-old adolescents. Included studies had a total sample of 981 out of which 13 were teachers. Studies measured both primary and secondary outcomes like modelling smoking, substance use and frequency of alcohol use. Conclusion This review summarized evidence about interventions and prevention programs aimed at decreasing or preventing substance use in adolescents with various types of disabilities or physical impairments. Substance use education increases knowledge about alcohol, tobacco and drug use and the health-related harms in teenagers with disabilities. Additional research is required especially among teenagers with intellectual disabilities and other types of disabilities.

Urban high schools that predominantly service at-risk students have not been faring well, with disproportionate numbers of minority children and poor White children are dropping out. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to examine the relationship between leaders' successes and the number of reduced dropout initiatives in 2 urban schools. This research was guided by empirical literature that included a review of various successful leadership practices. Case study interviews were conducted with 2 principals and 3 directors and were analyzed for common themes. Quantitative survey data were collected from a purposeful sample of 195 students and 7 administrative leaders in these schools; these quantitative data were then analyzed via descriptive statistics. Findings from the interviews indicated that multiple styles of leadership (e.g., distributive, transformational) are recommended as critical in these complex environments. Findings from the quantitative surveys indicated that students appreciated the role of management and the need for increased engagement in school. Administrators indicated a need for upper management support. This study contributes to social and organizational change by providing stakeholders with a better understanding of how management indirectly influences reduced dropout of at-risk youth. Future studies should include parent voices as they relate to high school dropout and connectedness to schools.