Absence motivated by illness: A non-concurrent prospective study of physical education teachers in the municipal education system of the city of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

The object of this investigation was to identify and analize aspects of the health status related to absenteism in physical education teachers in the municipal education system of the city of Campinas, Brazil, as related to the medical leave program. The non-concurrent prospective study was accomplished by means of a comparison with teachers who work only in the classroom, refering to a three year period. In the variables of greatest interest, the Pearson non-parametric chi-square (X2) statistical test was adopted. Calculations of relative risk and level of confidence were made using the Epi-info computer program. Significant differences were observed in the following diagnostic groups favoring the not exposed group: i) Supplementary Classification of factors that exercise influence over the health status and access to health services and ii) Digestive system illness; while the physical education teachers showed a significant difference in: i) diseases of the musculoskeletal and connective tissue system and ii) Injuries and poisoing. Possible explications for some of the adverse effects as well as the protective ones that were observed include physical activity as a way of life along with being a physical education teacher and on the other side, peculiar behavior of epidemiological descriptive characteristics, like sex and age, within the socio-economic context of the country. © Copyright Moreira Jr. Editora.

Una experiencia de asociatividad municipal para el desarrollo local en la Región de la Araucanía

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Anticorpos anti-Leptospira spp. em animais selvagens do zoológico municipal de Ribeirão Preto, Estado de São Paulo, Brasil

Leptospirosis may affect all domestic and wild animals as well as human beings. Some serological studies have shown the involvement of wild species in the epidemiology of the disease. Once captive wild animals are not much studied, especially in Brazil, the present study aimed to detect anti- Leptospira spp. antibodies in animals from Ribeirão Preto city zoo, in São Paulo state, Brazil. Blood samples were collected from captive birds, fish, reptiles and mammals, sinanthropics and free-living animals and also from employees between March and October, 2006. Four hundred and three blood samples were obtained, 388 animals' samples (110 reptiles, 143 birds, 110 mammals and 25 fish) and 15 humans'. The sera were analysed by Microscopic Agglutination Test using 22 serovars from pathological leptospiras and two from non-pathological serovars. Among the animal samples, 339 were from captive animals, and 49 from free-living ones, captured with traps inside the zoo. One hundred and three (103/388 = 26.5%) samples reacted to leptospirosis, ninety-two (92/339 = 27.1%) samples were from captive animals and eleven (11/49 = 22.4%) from free-living ones. All humans' samples were negative. Serological titles varied from 40 to 5.120, with predominance of titles between 40 and 80 and the most frequent serovars were Patoc, Andamana, Canicola, Icterohaemorrhagiae and Panama.

El asociativismo municipal: un instrumento para el fortalecimiento institucional

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Proceso de actualización de la estrategia de desarrollo regional metropolitana: evaluación del impacto de los planes de desarrollo comunal en la gestión municipal: informe final del Taller

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Estrategia municipal para la intervención integral de asentamientos humanos espontáneos de Managua, Nicaragua

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Estrategia municipal para la participación comunitaria en el mejoramiento del hábitat, Managua, Nicaragua

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Best practices in regulating State-owned and municipal water utilities

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Descentralización a escala municipal en México: la inversión en infraestructura social

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Municipal solid waste management in the Caribbean: a benefit-cost analysis

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Estrategia municipal para la intervención integral de asentamientos humanos espontáneos de Managua, Nicaragua

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Estrategia municipal para la participación comunitaria en el mejoramiento del hábitat en Managua, Nicaragua

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Diseño de un sistema de medición de desempeño para evaluar la gestión municipal: una propuesta metodológica

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O sistema municipal e o combate à pobreza no Brasil

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El sistema municipal y la superación de la pobreza en Colombia

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