34 research outputs found
Roça-de-toco: uso de recursos florestais e dinâmica da paisagem rural no litoral de Santa Catarina
Distribution of non-native invasive species and soil properties in proximity to paved roads and unpaved roads in a quartzitic mountainous grassland of southeastern Brazil (rupestrian fields).
One of the most important disturbances of
roads is the facilitation of the increase of non-native
invasive species into adjacent plant communities. The
rupestrian fields of Serra do Cipo?, a montane
grassland ecosystem in southeastern Brazil, are
recognized for their enormous richness of species
and endemism rates. The presence of non-native
invasive species in this ecosystem could threaten the
existence of the native flora and its associated
organisms. The aim of this study is to understand
how non-native invasive species and native species
are distributed along paved and unpaved roads, in a
montaneous grassland ecosystem such as the Brazilian
rupestrian fields. The two road surfaces provide
differing gradients from their edges with respect to
nutrients, soil chemical aspects and plant species
diversity. High content of calcium at the roadside in
the paved road resulted from the paving process, in
which limestone gravel is used in one of the several
paving phases. In these newly created habitats the
toxicity of aluminum is drastically reduced and
nutrient enriched, hence representing favorable sites
from where non-native invasive species are capable
to colonize and grow for undetermined period waiting
the chance to invade the adjacent pristine habitats.
Disturbances provoked by any natural or humancaused
event can provide the opportunity for the nonnative
invasive species to colonize new plant
communities
Patient safety in primary health care and polypharmacy : cross-sectional survey among patients with chronic diseases.
Objective: to characterize and determine the polypharmacy prevalence in patients with chronic diseases and to identify the factors associated, in order to improvement of pharmaceutical care focused on patient safety. Methods: cross-sectional study included 558 patients, covered by primary health care, using a household and structured questionnaire. We analyzed the data on polypharmacy and its clinical and socioeconomic factors. Poisson regression analysis with robust variance was applied, with results expressed in prevalence ratio. Results: the results showed that polypharmacy (consumption of four or more drugs) was of 37.6%. The prevalence ratio analyses identified independent variables associated with polypharmacy: age (3.05), economic strata (0.33), way of medication acquisition through a combination of out-ofpocket and Brazilian public health system (1.44), diabetes and hypertension (2.11), comorbidities (coronary artery disease 2.26) and hospital admission (1.73). In the analyses, inappropriate medication use of the 278 patients (? 65 years) was associated with polypharmacy (prevalence ratio 4.04). Conclusion: polypharmacy study becomes an opportunity to guide the strategies for the patient safety to promote the medication without harm in chronic diseases