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The objective of this article was to discuss the border condition of the Brazilian Amazon between the 20th and 21st centuries from its peripheral and strategic behavior. The guiding question was: how is the border condition configured through the peripheral/strategic behavior of frontier spaces in the Amazon region of Brazil? The methodological approach was the hypothetical-deductive based on three investigation strategies; qualitative analysis of documents, review of specialized literature and fieldwork observations. The results indicate that the Amazon frontier cannot be considered peripheral or strategic in isolation. These two adjectives qualify specific historical, political and economic uses that need to be considered together to understand the border condition of the Brazilian Amazon. We conclude that the peripheral/strategic behavior reveals not only the historical-economic construction of the border, but also the choice of national decision-making centers, reflected in the public policies implemented in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Resumen: Portugal se enfrenta al problema de reducir su alta tasa de accidentes laborales mortales con una financiación limitada. En esta investigación se identifican los predictores significativos en Portugal y se estima las probabilidades de accidentes mortales. Según los resultados de las estimaciones, basadas en una regresión logística aplicada, habría que centrar los esfuerzos de prevención en los trabajadores de edad, los asalariados con contrato indefinido en grandes empresas y los sectores del comercio y los servicios, y en las personas expuestas a desviaciones por desbordamiento, vuelco, escape, derrame, vaporización o emanación que puedan causar lesiones o heridas a nivel musculoesquelético, fracturas o amputaciones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyzes the Araguaya steamboat’s case, a luxurious ship that left the Southampton Port (England) to Río de Janeiro and Buenos Aires ports in 1910. During the trip there was a cholera outbreak that spread on board only among the third class passengers who were immigrants. In the first part of the article, we explain how traveling conditions in the steerage were decisive for the outbreak. In the second part, we describe the case in detail, from the departure of the ship until its arrival at a quarantine hospital in Brazil. In the early twentieth century, knowledge and techniques of bacteriology began to take part in health protocols ports of South America for diagnosis and control conditions. Under the aegis of the bacteriology, the Araguaya case makes possible a historical questioning of the experience with diseases during the transatlantic voyage of European workers to America in the late 19th and early 20th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Since the Reform of the Primary Health Care is being carried out and it is expected that the Palliative Care Units, level I and II, will soon be put into effect, it has become pertinent to understand how the nurses of the Primary Health Care respond to the needs of someone who is in intense suffering near the end of their life, so that the existent resources can be better adapted to the needs and so that the quality of the response might also be improved. As a contribution to attain this goal a semi-structured, exploratory-descriptive investigation with a qualitative approach was planed using the interview as a technique of data gathering. From among the different objectives that guided this study, we focused on the palliative actions that the referred nurses provide to the clients according to the conditions referred to and also on the analysis of their views concerning the care provided and the results that were obtained. According to these results we can assume that, in the present situation, the Health Center to which these nurses belong does not offer the required resources for them to respond in a thorough and adequate way to the multiple and complex needs they are faced with. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents an analysis of the impact on newspapers Jornal do Commercio and Diario de Pernambuco about the installation process for a new petrochemical in Pernambuco state, Brazil. Was analyzed a corpus consisting of 18 journalistic texts selected from online editions in the period from august 2007 to july 2010, identifying the location of the text, the gender discourse, the main themes and ideologies and the social voices present in the discourse in the light of a theoretical interdisciplinary field of collective health, considering the interrelationship, health, environment, production processes and communication in the social determination of health. It was identified that there is a developmentalist ideology that sustains economic growth without considering the voices of local communities that have suffered processes of socioenvironmental vulnerability arising from joint ventures such as the Oil Refinery Abreu e Lima and petrochemicals Suape. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]