2 resultados para PRIMARY HEALTH CARE, BRAZIL

em Universidade Federal do Pará


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Between 75% and 90% of the waste produced by health-care providers no risk or is "general" health-care waste, comparable to domestic waste. The remaining 10-25% of health-care waste is regarded as hazardous due to one or more of the following characteristics: it may contain infectious agents, sharps, toxic or hazardous chemicals or it may be radioactive. Infectious health-care waste, particularly sharps, has been responsible for most of the accidents reported in the literature. In this work the preliminary risks analysis (PRA) technique was used to evaluate practices in the handling of infectious health-care waste. Currently the PRA technique is being used to identify and to evaluate the potential for hazard of the activities, products, and services from facilities and industries. The system studied was a health-care establishment which has handling practices for infectious waste. Thirty-six procedures related to segregation, containment, internal collection, and storage operation were analyzed. The severity of the consequences of the failure (risk) that can occur from careless management of infectious health-care waste was classified into four categories: negligible, marginal, critical, and catastrophic. The results obtained in this study showed that events with critics consequences, about 80%, may occur during the implementation of the containment operation, suggesting the need to prioritize this operation. As a result of the methodology applied in this work, a flowchart the risk series was also obtained. In the flowchart the events that can occur as a consequence of a improper handling of infectious health-care waste, which can cause critical risks such as injuries from sharps and contamination (infection) from pathogenic microorganisms, are shown.

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O objetivo desta pesquisa foi avaliar os conhecimentos e práticas relacionados à vigilância do desenvolvimento da criança de 160 profissionais que atuam na atenção primária à saúde, no Município de Belém, Pará. Foram selecionados 40 médicos e 40 enfermeiros de Unidades Municipais de Saúde (UMS), e 40 médicos e 40 enfermeiros do Programa da Família Saudável (PFS). Na avaliação dos conhecimentos por meio da aplicação de teste objetivo, o percentual de acerto foi de 63,7% para médicos das UMSs, 57,3% para médicos do PFS, 62,1% para os enfermeiros do PFS e 54,3% para enfermeiros das UMSs. Na avaliação das práticas, apenas 21,8% das mães informaram que foram indagadas sobre o desenvolvimento dos seus filhos, 27,6% que o profissional perguntou ou observou o desenvolvimento da sua criança e 14,4% que receberam orientação sobre como estimulá-las. Concluímos que médicos e enfermeiros da atenção primária no Município de Belém apresentam deficiências nos conhecimentos sobre desenvolvimento infantil e que a vigilância do desenvolvimento não é realizada de forma satisfatória, sendo necessárias sensibilização e capacitação dos profissionais para esta prática.