The scope of this study was to identify the presence of health problems and their significance for tobacco harvesters, State representatives, civil society and the tobacco industry, and also understand their coping strategies. An ethnographic study with 35 semi-structured interviews answered by harvesters' families and key informants was carried out in a rural community in the state of Rio Gran...

This study aimed to identify and analyze aspects regarding the preparation for the worker-user relationship in a primary health care unit in a city in the state of São Paulo-Brazil, from the perspective of welcoming. The health work process is the theoretical basis of the study; participant observation and semi-structured interviews were used as data collection techniques, and thematic analysis...

In the pantheon of U.S. environmental law, only one federal statute—the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972—has created an independent oversight agency with explicit authority to conduct appraisals of and make recommendations on all regulatory agency actions under the law. That agency, the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, is the subject of our analysis. Using a semi-structured survey and partici...

This study aimed to understand the main conflicts experienced by nurses-leaders in the hospital environment, as well as the strategies adopted to face them.The study reflects a qualitative descriptive type approach, which was used in the case study as research strategy. The study included 25 nurses who worked in three hospitals in the city of Florianopolis, Santa Catarina. Information where obt...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the strategies used by nurses to support the insertion of dialogic leadership in the hospital environment. METHODOLOGY Qualitative study, case study type. Twenty five nurses working in three hospitals in the city of Florianopolis, in the state of Santa Catarina (Brazil) participated in the study. Data were collected from May to December 2010. For data collection, semi-str...

The practice of integrating pedagogical approaches using multimedia technologies has become one the common interests in field English language teaching (ELT) recent years. This research study attempts at studying characteristics computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) tasks used for developing students' cognitive skills within CSCL approach context ELT higher secondary school education...