Patient-centered healthcare initiatives are underway to enable patients to take more responsibility for their healthcare. To do so, patients must be able to access, utilize, and share their health information. Access to health information through patient portals and other electronic means is increasing with the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), but not all providers have EHRs or pat...

This paper discusses the importance of social responsibility as a base for sustainability and tries to provide an overview of this relationship in Brazil nowadays. It is recognized as necessary the existence of three classes of economical, ecological and social sustainability and the big challenge of reconciling these three elements. Are included the results and discussion of a research aiming ...

This paper reflects partial results from a study about male reproductive attitudes and behaviour concerning the decision-making processes related to sexual intercourse, adoption of contraception, and prevention of STDs and HIV infection. The study also explores whether and in waht way both objective characteristics of the men and their (culturally grounded) perceptions impinge on their behaviou...

This paper contributes to addressing the paucity of works on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Bangladesh by reporting on the findings of an exploratory study conducted in Dhaka in 2009 for the purpose of examining the views of a group of Bangladeshi managers from various sectors in relation to CSR. The findings revealed a significant level of awareness among the participants about CSR-r...

In this paper it is listed some findings of a research conducted in Brazil that tried to identify the preferences, constrains and concerns in real life use of a mobile Digital TV (DTV). The research was conducted in the beginning of 2014, when mobile digital service were already consolidated, in technological terms, but with a lack of adoption by the mobile market. To achieve the research objec...

Age estimation in humans has taken an important role in today’s modern society [1-4]. It is of great importance in several areas: deciding the age of living persons and in the identification process of unknown deceased persons. For unknown deceased persons, it is of significance to identify the victims of mass disasters, fires, accidents, crashes and homicides. As regards the living persons, it...

Environmental and economic evidence is increasingly supporting the need for better analytical tools for evaluating the recovery of consumer products. In response, we present a novel mathematical model for determining what we call the Optimal Recovery Plan (ORP) for any given product. The ORP is based on an evaluation and optimization of the economics of remanufacturing consumer products versus ...

With the adoption of mobile healthcare applications and the success of cloud service models, we propose a privacy management framework for mobile health care applications with support for dynamic privacy management of health data sharing. Our solution extends the XACML policy language by incorporating user access context into the privacy policy rule enforcement. We provide an implementation of ...

This article analyses tensions between the dominant management rationality and health work. By means of philosophical concepts and bibliography revision it was found that clinical and public health practices are structured as praxis, a term defined by Aristotle. It does not work automatically, depending on a human being to reflect and decide in most situations, making mediation between establis...

The long term preservation is a responsibility to share with other organizations, even adopting different preservation methods and tools. The overcoming of the interoperability issues, by means of the achievement of a flawless exchange of digital assets to preserve, enables the feasibility of applying distributed digital preservation policies. The Archives Ready To AIP Transmission a PREMIS Bas...