DESAFIOS E APRENDIZADOS DAS AÇÕES DE EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL NA OCUPAÇÃO VISTA ALEGRE DO JUÁ, SANTARÉM, PARÁ

O recorrente aumento das zonas urbanas e a redução das áreas arborizadas acarretam baixa qualidade aos ambientes de convivência social. A educação ambiental entra como ferramenta auxiliadora de criação e manutenção dessas áreas. Com objetivo de contribuir para a qualidade ambiental em uma zona de ocupação irregular no município de Santarém, Pará, desenvolveu-se um trabalho de arborização, atrelando ações educativas, associando preservação e educação. Procedeu-se com a atividades de produção de mudas e plantio de espécies arbóreas, junto a práticas educacionais voltadas a educação ambiental, como discussão de temáticas ambientais. Foram desenvolvidas atividades de contação de histórias, construção de maquetes e desenhos, além de práticas de produção de mudas, compostagem, plantio e cuidados com as espécies arbóreas. Ocorreu contribuição significativa para com as crianças e jovens, na formação de uma consciência crítica, incentivando-as a agir de maneira mais ativa dentro do contexto abordado. Palavras-chave: Educação ambiental; produção de mudas; compostagem; consciência ecológica

Prevalência da doença periodontal em pacientes cardiopatas

O propósito deste estudo foi avaliar a condição periodontal de pacientes com alterações cardiovasculares, a fim de se verificar a associação entre doença cardíaca e doença periodontal. Sessenta e dois pacientes foram encaminhados de hospitais da cidade de Cascavel e ambulatórios de cardiologia (5 a 78 anos, média de idade 52 anos). Os seguintes parâmetros periodontais foram avaliados: índice de placa, índice gengival, profundidade de sondagem e dentes perdidos. Uma análise preliminar deste estudo relacionando saúde dental e médica mostra que indivíduos com doença cardíaca apresentam alta morbidade dentária. A condição periodontal da maioria dos pacientes foi clinicamente diagnosticada como gengivite e periodontite moderada e pobre higiene bucal

Recommending Physical Activity to Your Aging Patients? What Clinicians Need to Know to Increase Adherence From the Older Adult Perspective

A wealth of scientific evidence supports that being physically active may prevent or delay the onset of cognitive impairment and dementia. However, a critical barrier is that while most clinicians recommend physical activity (PA) and older adults recognize its health benefits, most older adults fail to regularly practice PA. Thus, it is necessary to explore and disseminate knowledge on how to help clinicians truly partner with people and help them to change their behavior and become more active. Clinical and scientific efforts are underway to establish dose-specific PA recommendations for cognitive brain health. However, an important knowledge gap is how to develop effective strategies to increase PA adherence in aging. To better understand the perspective of older adults, we undertook a mixed-method study on sixty-five sedentary older adults at risk for cognitive decline. Participants answered a questionnaire battery related to PA engagement, and a subcohort participated in a remote focus group. Our findings revealed four main themes: First, age and aging are determinants in PA practice. Second, maintaining both an active mind and autonomy are priorities, but planned PA is not usually related as part of being “active.” Third, motivational challenges in PA engagement were noted. And fourth, they emphasized a call for tailored recommendations. Therefore, we present a multidimensional model of PA adherence to maximize brain health in older adults and suggest a tool kit and key questions to effectively screen sedentary aging adults and translate current guidelines into the needs of the individual by using behavior change strategies

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8–11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world’s most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepre sented in biodiversity databases.13–15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may elim inate pieces of the Amazon’s biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological com munities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple or ganism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region’s vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most ne glected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lostinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio