Objective. To develop and assess a toxicology module to teach pharmacy students about farming- and mining-related occupational exposures in the context of an existing toxicology elective course. Design. A teaching unit that included lectures and case studies was developed to address the unique occupational exposures of patients working in agricultural and mining environments. Upon completion of this 4-hour (2 class periods) module, students were expected to recognize the clinical signs and symptoms associated with these occupational exposures and propose acceptable therapeutic plans. Assessment. After completing the module, students scored significantly higher on a patient case involving suicide resulting from pesticide consumption. Seventy-three percent of the students scored higher than 90% on a 33-item multiple-choice examination. Eighty-two percent of students were able to correctly read a product label to determine the type of pesticide involved in an occupational exposure. Conclusion. Pharmacy students who completed a module on occupation exposure demonstrated competence in distinguishing occupational exposures from each other and from exposure to prescription and nonprescription drugs. This module can be used to educate future pharmacists about occupational health issues, some of which may be more prevalent in a rural setting.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:33:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MACHADO_Paulo_2013.pdf: 4615685 bytes, checksum: 3203bb2b83b9849e4543d2b317b5330a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-22 / This research has focused to the recent dynamics of rural Brazil where activities related to non-agricultural occupations have shown an increasing importance face to agricultural occupations, in terms of absorption of labor as the production yields. This work is performed at region level characterized by the states that compound the Legal Amazon. This research takes into account issues related to education level, job category, types of activities, and income. In order to be found in non-agricultural activities better conditions relating to income, higher levels of education, less income discrepancies between genders, besides the fact that the sum of total income in the non-agricultural sector is almost the same to those provided by the agricultural sector. The work also proposes to conduct an analysis of a number of cities classified according to their income distribution through the well known Gini coefficient, in order to find evidence of the importance of non-agricultural activities face to the agricultural counties. This fact is observed in different cities since the average income of individuals allocated to the non-agricultural sector has less variation compared to those involved in the agricultural sector. / A presente pesquisa tem seu foco voltado à recente dinâmica do meio rural brasileiro onde as atividades relacionadas ao setor não agrícola têm apresentado crescente importância frente às agrícolas, tanto em termos de absorção da mão de obra quanto nos rendimentos oferecidos. No trabalho é realizada uma caracterização da região que compõe a Amazônia Legal, levando em consideração questões referentes ao nível de instrução, categorias e posições do emprego, aos tipos de atividades, além dos rendimentos obtidos pela população analisada. De maneira geral, foram encontradas nas atividades não agrícolas melhores condições relativas aos rendimentos, melhores níveis de instrução, rendimentos menos discrepantes entre os gêneros, além do fato de a soma dos rendimentos totais no setor não agrícola se encontrarem praticamente iguais àqueles fornecidos pelo setor agrícola. O trabalho também se propõe a realizar uma análise de um conjunto de municípios classificados segundo sua distribuição de renda por meio do índice de Gini, a fim de se encontrarem indícios da importância das atividades não agrícolas frente às agrícolas nos municípios melhores classificados por esse índice. Fato esse observado nos diferentes municípios, uma vez que os rendimentos médios dos indivíduos alocados no setor não agrícola apresentam menor variação em comparação aos envolvidos no setor agrícola.