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Este texto trata da criação do primeiro curso superior em Educação Física na Bahia e objetiva apresentar seus bastidores, para perceber seus movimentos políticos e acadêmicos. Como metodologia, trabalhamos com os aspectos teórico-metodológicos da História cultural, com foco na história oral, entrevistando pessoas envolvidas com a fundação do Curso. Os dados das fontes orais foram compreendidos como "versões do passado", socialmente situados, articulados com o obtido em documentos e na literatura especializada. Como resultados, identificamos: articulação política externa à Universidade e uso de recursos públicos para fundação do curso; preconceitos institucionais com a Educação Física; coesão no processo de criação e influência da Escola Nacional de Educação Física e Desportos.

Este estudo tem como objetivo avaliar a opinião de graduandos de Educação Física da UESB participantes do Projeto de Extensão NIEFAM a respeito da Extensão Universitária. Concluímos que uma “semente está plantada”, entretanto, é necessário entender o funcionamento da tríade Universitária como sendo interconectada, onde os três pólos existem no mesmo nível de importância. Assim, deixaremos de enxergar a extensão universitária como mero apêndice, vetor assistencialista ou de propaganda.

O Judoka foi uma revista em quadrinhos mensal publicada a partir de abril de 1969, pela Editora Brasil-América Ltda. (EBAL). Em seu sétimo número, passa a ser escrito e desenhado no Brasil. Nesse momento, há uma mudança no argumento das histórias, a roupa do herói passa a conter as cores e a forma da bandeira nacional, e o herói deixa de ser representado por um soldado para se tornar um jovem estudante. Mas qual o sentido de se desenhar um herói com as cores da bandeira do Brasil e, ao mesmo tempo, exaltar a prática das artes marciais nesse período? Um possível caminho para responder a essa questão surge da suspeita de que a EBAL era muito próxima ao governo militar. Nesse sentido, questiona-se: seria o binômio regime militar/arte marcial oriental uma possível explicação para o desenvolvimento das artes marciais no Brasil?

ABSTRACT Objective: To report the educational experience with pregnant women considering the recovery of collective memory inherited from the care for the umbilical cord stump provided by grandmothers. Method: This case study was based on collective memory and resulted from a workshop with 20 pregnant women from a Basic Health Unit in a city in the inland of Bahia. Results: The study showed that pregnant women’s grandmothers are significant in the stump care process because they transmit their memories pervaded by beliefs, myths and superstitions that, although should be respected by nurses and other health professionals, can sometimes contribute to the occurrence of omphalitis and neonatal tetanus. Final considerations: The results indicated the need for raising awareness and education of all persons involved in this care, especially grandmothers, so that they can reflect on the risks and damage that certain empirical knowledge can cause to the health of the umbilical cord.

Background and Objectives: A safety culture is essential to minimize errors and adverse events. Its measurement is needed to design activities in order to improve it. This paper describes the methods and main results of a study on safety climate in a nation-wide representative sample of public hospitals of the Spanish NHS., Material and Method: The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture questionnaire was distributed to a random sample of health professionals in a representative sample of 24 hospitals, proportionally stratified by hospital size. Results are analyzed to provide a description of safety climate, its strengths and weaknesses. Differences by hospital size, type of health professional and service are analyzed using ANOVA., Results: A total of 2503 responses are analyzed (response rate: 40%, (93% from professionals with direct patient contact). A total of 50% gave patient safety a score from 6 to 8 (on a 10-point scale); 95% reported < 2 events last year. Dimensions "Teamwork within hospital units" (71.8 [1.8]) and "Supervisor/Manager expectations and actions promoting safety" (61.8 [1.7]) have the highest percentage of positive answers. "Staffing", "Teamwork across hospital units", "Overall perceptions of safety" and "Hospital management support for patient safety" could be identified as weaknesses. Significant differences by hospital size, type of professional and service suggest a generally more positive attitude in small hospitals and Pharmacy services, and a more negative one in physicians., Conclusions: Strengths and weaknesses of the safety climate in the hospitals of the Spanish NHS have been identified and they are used to design appropriate strategies for improvement.

Falls in the elderly are a serious problem that results in large health care expenditures. To prevent them, it has been shown that the key is an epidemiologic knowledge of the target population. The purpose of this systematic review was to identify the incidence, risk factors and consequences of falls in the Spanish population, by analyzing the methodological quality of studies that provide these data. Two independent authors identified 54 studies through manual and electronic means (MEDLINE, Dialnet, Tesis en Red, TESEO y CSIC [ICYT, IME, ISOC]). A total of 13 studies performed in Spain with non-hospitalized elderly individuals older than 64 years of age were selected and assessed for their methodological quality. We found heterogeneity in the characteristics and quality of the studies, and a general inadequacy of data analyses. The risk factors and consequences must be viewed with caution, since in most of the studies a causal inference cannot be made. We showed that the current fall rates are at the same level as those of the first epidemiologic study published 15 years ago. We conclude that Spain has a high incidence of falls and needs studies on risk factors directed toward cause and effect in the community and comparisons among nursing homes. Finally, the physical, psychosocial and economic consequences must be investigated more thoroughly.