The objective of the present study was to estimate the contribution of environmental pollutants to hospital admissions for cardiovascular disease. A time series ecological study was conducted on subjects aged over 60 years and living in São José dos Campos, Brazil, with a population near 700,000 inhabitants. Hospital admission data of public health patients (SUS) were obtained from DATASUS for ...

Urbanization transforms undeveloped landscapes into built environments, causing changes in communities and ecological processes. Flying arthropods play important roles in these processes as pollinators, decomposers, and predators, and can be important in structuring food webs. The goal of this study was to identify associations between urbanization and the composition of communities of flying (...

OBJECTIVE characterize the hospital morbidity of adults living in the city of Maringá, PR, Brazil, between 2000 and 2011, focusing on the differential between men and women. METHOD this descriptive study was developed based on data from the Hospital Information System of the Unified Health System in order to investigate the association between groups of hospitalization causes and the average ...

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) has the benefit of enhancing organizational effectiveness, risk reporting, and improving business performance. The maturity measurement ERM implementation is crucial in deducing management conditions disparities within company as means to achieve a more targeted pursuance, one which beneficial assessing company's condition. This study used sixteen criteria Matur...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The current study was designed to determine whether the indoor air pollution in a hemodialysis room (HD) was different from that of other comparable areas in a hospital. METHODS Five air monitor samplers were hung on the ceiling and placed on the table in both the HD and general ward nursing stations, respectively. In addition, five samplers were placed in the nurse's breathin...

Massive use of motorcycle is a signature of Eastern-Asia developing countries. This is may be termed a motorcycle dominant environment. Although the use of motorcycles is likely to provide many benefits to the riders, it also produces many serious transport issues for the community. To find out the solution, an understanding of traveller behaviour is necessary. Travel demand modelling then beco...