The safe access to water and sanitary sewer are human rights, there is a lack of indexes which evidence if rural areas have levels these services others compose basic sanitation in Brazil. goal this work was elaborate safety index at household level, apply it three typologies communities the state Goiás: settlements, quilombola riparian communities. For such, research developed five steps: 1) C...

Previous research shows that patients in integrated health systems experience fewer racial disparities compared with more traditional healthcare systems. Little is known about patterns of racial/ethnic disparities between safety-net and non safety-net integrated health systems.We evaluated racial/ethnic differences in body mass index (BMI) and the Charlson comorbidity index from 3 non safety-ne...

The use of fire safety engineering and performance-based techniques continues to grow in prominence as building design becomes more ambitious, increasing complexity. National enforcement agencies are tasked with evaluating approving the resulting strategies, which have similarly continued become advanced specialist. To assist evaluation this paper introduces a methodology dedicated sustainable ...

OBJECTIVE The Orthopaedic Error Index for hospitals aims to provide the first national assessment of the relative safety of provision of orthopaedic surgery. DESIGN Cross-sectional study (retrospective analysis of records in a database). SETTING The National Reporting and Learning System is the largest national repository of patient-safety incidents in the world with over eight million erro...

With the rapid growth of interventional MRI, radiofrequency (RF) heating at the tips of guidewires, catheters, and other wire-shaped devices has become an important safety issue. Previous studies have identified some of the variables that affect the relative magnitude of this heating but none could predict the absolute amount of heating to formulate safety margins. This study presents the first...

This white paper lays out some foundational information about different approaches to safety: how various industries differ in their approaches to safety engineering, and a comparison of three general approaches to safety (system safety, industrial safety engineering, and reliability engineering). An attempt is made to lay out the properties of industries and systems that make one approach more...

This study proposes a total secondary safety index for light passenger vehicles that rates the relative performance of vehicles in protecting both their own occupants and other road users in the full range of real world crash circumstances. The index estimates the risk of death or serious injury to key road users in crashes involving light passenger vehicles across the full range of crash types...