Poverty and income distribution in Latin America: on the complementarities between trade policy and social public spending

Incluye Bibliografía

Poverty and income distribution in Latin America: on the complementarities between trade policy and social public spending

Includes bibliography

Interaction between the public and private sectors and the overall efficiency of the economy

Includes bibliography

Social sciences and social reality in Central America

Includes bibliography

Las principales tesis presentadas y discutidas en el VII Congreso de Sociología sobre Sociología Urbana = The main arguments concerning urban sociology presented and discussed at the seventh National Congress of Sociology

Los documentos del Seminario fueron publicados por UNESCO en 1961 con el título: La urbanización en América Latina/Urbanization in Latin America

Formal quality assurance systems as a basis for environmentally-sound management practices in the public and private sectors

Includes bibliography

Inequality in education in Costa Rica: The gap between students in public and private schools. An analysis of the results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

Includes bibliography.

Wage differentials between the public and private sectors in Chile: Evidence from longitudinal data

Includes bibliography.

Lei Maria da Penha: avaliação dos seis anos de implantação em Belém/PA

Este estudo constitui a dissertação apresentada no Curso de Mestrado em Serviço Social da UFPA, cujo tema “Lei Maria da Penha: Avaliação dos 06 anos de Implantação em Belém/PA”, analisa a discussão e avaliação da aplicabilidade da Lei nº 11.340/06 (Maria da Penha) para o combate à violência doméstica e familiar no município de Belém/PA. Objetiva também aprofundar o conhecimento sobre a temática da mulher e das relações de gênero. Com essa finalidade, o trabalho foi realizado mediante pesquisa bibliográfica, com a utilização de materiais já publicados como: artigos, livros e os materiais disponíveis na internet e pesquisa exploratória, visando a uma apreensão do problema para melhor compreendê-lo e explicitá-lo. Os instrumentais de coleta de dados foram aplicados junto aos sujeitos sociais envolvidos na problemática, a fim de superar a aparência do fenômeno e apreender a dinamicidade de sua estrutura de forma universal, particular e singular. Considera-se importante pontuar que os seis anos de aplicabilidade da Lei “Maria da Penha” em Belém ainda não surtiu resultados efetivamente satisfatórios, em decorrência da falta de equipamentos públicos destinados ao atendimento desse tipo de violência, pois existe apenas 01 (uma) Delegacia da Mulher e 03 (três) varas de violência doméstica e familiar contra a mulher na capital do Estado e a carência de recursos, financeiros, materiais e pessoais, configurando um quadro ainda deficitário para a implementação integral da Lei. Dessa maneira, embora a Lei tenha proporcionado a possibilidade de proteção e justiça, essa situação ainda não se concretizou de fato em Belém do Pará. Porém, não se pode desconsiderar a importância dessa Lei e as mudanças propostas por ela, com o objetivo de universalizar o acesso à justiça por contingentes da população historicamente excluídos de direitos e principalmente o mérito do reconhecimento da violência doméstica e familiar contra a mulher, em suas diferentes modalidades, como problema público e social, passível de inferência das forças do Estado. Logo, existe uma legislação nacional capaz de reduzir a incidência desse fenômeno, se aplicada de modo consistente e efetivo, com o fortalecimento e ampliação da rede de proteção à mulher vítima de violência, pois o problema é complexo e envolve medidas judiciais, administrativas, legislativas, econômicas, sociais e culturais, sem as quais ficaria inviável realizar um atendimento global ao problema. A Lei n.º 11.340/06 ainda se encontra em fase de experimentação e certamente deverá sofrer vários ajustes, porém é preciso manter o texto em sua integralidade por tempo suficiente para medir o seu impacto, evitando alterações precipitadas que possam desfigurar ou até anular a referida Lei.

Capitalismo, trabalho e formação profissional: dilemas do trabalho cotidiano dos assistentes sociais em Ribeirão Preto - SP

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS

CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND SEVERITY OF PATIENTS ADMITTED TO PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ICUS

This study aimed to compare clinical characteristics, evolution and severity of adult patients admitted to public and private Intensive Care Units. It is a retrospective, longitudinal and quantitative analysis of 600 patients admitted to four Intensive Care Units of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Differences were found between patients admitted in private and public hospitals regarding the following variables: age, origin, length of stay and mortality in the critical unit, cardiologic, hematologic, neurologic and renal failures and some comorbidities. The results reveal the importance of analyzing in detail clinical characteristics and healthcare of patients admitted in public institutions, because of the high mortality found. The Intensive Care Nurse can contribute to change this scenario, because she/he plays a leading role in planning and providing resources for intensive care.

Prevalence and correlates of dizziness in community-dwelling older people: a cross sectional population based study

Abstract Background Dizziness is a common complaint among older adults and has been linked to a wide range of health conditions, psychological and social characteristics in this population. However a profile of dizziness is still uncertain which hampers clinical decision-making. We therefore sought to explore the relationship between dizziness and a comprehensive range of demographic data, diseases, health and geriatric conditions, and geriatric syndromes in a representative sample of community-dwelling older people. Methods This is a cross-sectional, population-based study derived from FIBRA (Network for the Study of Frailty in Brazilian Elderly Adults), with 391 elderly adults, both men and women, aged 65 years and older. Elderly participants living at home in an urban area were enrolled through a process of random cluster sampling of census regions. The outcome variable was the self-report of dizziness in the last year. Several feelings of dizziness were investigated including vertigo, spinning, light or heavy headedness, floating, fuzziness, giddiness and instability. A multivariate logistic regression analysis was conducted to estimate the adjusted odds ratios and build the probability model for dizziness. Results The complaint of dizziness was reported by 45% of elderly adults, from which 71.6% were women (p=0.004). The multivariate regression analysis revealed that dizziness is associated with depressive symptoms (OR = 2.08; 95% CI 1.29–3.35), perceived fatigue (OR = 1.93; 95% CI 1.21-3.10), recurring falls (OR = 2.01; 95% CI 1.11-3.62) and excessive drowsiness (OR = 1.91; 95% CI 1.11–3.29). The discrimination of the final model was AUC = 0.673 (95% CI 0.619-0.727) (p< 0.001). Conclusions The prevalence of dizziness in community-dwelling elderly adults is substantial. It is associated with other common geriatric conditions usually neglected in elderly adults, such as fatigue and drowsiness, supporting its possible multifactorial manifestation. Our findings demonstrate the need to expand the design in future studies, aiming to estimate risk and identify possible causal relations.

Personal and Social Performance (PSP) scale for patients with schizophrenia: translation to Portuguese, cross-cultural adaptation and interrater reliability

INTRODUCTION: Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder associated with impairment in social functioning. The most widely used scale to measure social functioning is the GAF (Global Assessment of Functioning), but it has the disadvantage of measuring at the same time symptoms and functioning, as described in its anchors. OBJECTIVES:Translation and cultural adaptation of the PSP, proposing a final version in Portuguese for use in Brazil. METHODS: We performed five steps: 1) translation; 2) back translation; 3) formal assessment of semantic equivalence; 4) debriefing; 5) analysis by experts. Interrater reliability (Intraclass correlation, ICC) between two raters was also measured. RESULTS: The final version was applied by two independent investigators in 18 adults with schizophrenia (DSM-IV-TR). The interrater reliability (ICC) was 0.812 (p < 0.001). CONCLUSION: The translation and adaptation of the PSP had an adequate level of semantic equivalence between the Portuguese version and the original English version. There were no difficulties related to understanding the content expressed in the translated texts and terms. Its application was easy and it showed a good interrater reliability. The PSP is a valid instrument for the measurement of personal and social functioning in schizophrenia.

Social Welfare and Behavioral Public Policies

In this work I discuss several key aspects of welfare economics and policy analysis and I propose two original contributions to the growing field of behavioral public policymaking. After providing a historical perspective of welfare economics and an overview of policy analysis processes in the introductory chapter, in chapter 2 I discuss a debated issue of policymaking, the choice of the social welfare function. I contribute to this debate by proposing an original methodological contribution based on the analysis of the quantitative relationship among different social welfare functional forms commonly used by policy analysts. In chapter 3 I then discuss a behavioral policy to contrast indirect tax evasion based on the use of lotteries. I show that the predictions of my model based on non-expected utility are consistent with observed, and so far unexplained, empirical evidence of the policy success. Finally, in chapter 4 I investigate by mean of a laboratory experiment the effects of social influence on the individual likelihood to engage in altruistic punishment. I show that bystanders’ decision to engage in punishment is influenced by the punishment behavior of their peers and I suggest ways to enact behavioral policies that exploit this finding.