The slum is not only a manifestation of mismanaged urban planning in the countries of the South. The existence of slums worldwide is also a sign that the slum is a crucial element of contemporary urbanisation. This article will attempt to define this phenomenon and understand its causes. Adequate policy responses are then suggested. Without finding appropriate solutions to the housing problems ...

In order to analyse the impact of oxacillin resistance on the mortality of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia, and to assess the antimicrobial susceptibility of community-acquired strains in two large university hospitals (the Instituto do Coração do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo and the Instituto Central do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medic...

ALVES GOMES, G. (1); MELIM MARQUES, L. (2); ALVES GOMES, G. (3); SPIEGEL NASCIMENTO, C. (4); ARAÚJO-JORGE CREMONINE, T. (5) y LUZ MOTTA, M. (6) (1) Departamento de Biologia Celular e Molecular. [email protected] (2) Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. [email protected] (3) Universidade Federal Fluminense. [email protected] (4) Universidade Federal Fluminense. [email protected] (5) Institut...

In this paper, we present a PropBank of clinical Finnish, an annotated corpus of verbal propositions and arguments. The clinical PropBank is created on top of a previously existing dependency treebank annotated in the Stanford Dependency (SD) scheme and covers 90% of all verb occurrences in the treebank. We establish that the PropBank scheme is applicable to clinical Finnish as well as compatib...

INTRODUCTION Adherence to infection control guidelines is low, and several efforts have been made to improve healthcare workers' performance of infection control measures. In this study, the performance and evaluation of a hospital-wide infection control programme is described. The most important measure was distribution of an infection control newsletter. METHODS In evaluation of the program...

The School of Computing and Technology at the University of Sunderland teaches a diverse range of programmes to a disparate range of students. This paper will outline and evaluate the specific subjects taught in each module at each level, the applications and methodologies used, and the relationship between modules at different levels. It will also discuss the various assessment methodologies e...

The Health Administration field understands and deals with quality issues in a way that differs from what is seen in the industry. This article presents a survey done in a sample of 159 hospitals in São Paulo state during the second semester 1999 regarding the implementation of quality initiatives. The sample had public, philanthropic, non-philanthropic and university hospitals. Among 97 hospit...

Objective: to unveil the existential movement of a couple when performing vertical HIV transmission prophylaxis. Method: qualitative research, using Martin Heidegger’s phenomenological approach. A phenomenological interview was conducted with 14 participants between December/2011 and February/2012 in the outpatient facilities of an university hospital, Brazil. A comprehensive and interpretative...

The objective of this study was to describe factors associated with the increase in cesarean rates in a university hospital in 2002 and 2004, exploring medical and non-medical factors. A cross-sectional study investigated 2,905 deliveries: 1,441 in 2002 and 1,464 in 2004. Differences in adjusted prevalence rates using Poisson regression and attributable risk percent were estimated for the assoc...

I was pleased to have been accepted to visit the Endourology and Stone Service at Barts by the director of the service, Mr. Noor Buchholz. This 1-month visit from June to July 2011 turned out to be one of my most valued professional experiences. St. Bartholomew’s Hospital is part of the Barts and The London NHS Trust, a tertiary university hospital trust caring for an often underprivileged popu...