MORTALIDADE FEMININA NO ESTADO DO MARANHÃO: UMA ABORDAGEM QUANTITATIVA / Female mortality in the state of Maranhão: a quantitative approach

Introdução: A população feminina brasileira representa parcela importante da população geral, constituindo fração considerável da força produtiva do país. Objetivos: Caracterizar as causas de morte entre mulheres de 10 anos e mais no estado do Maranhão no ano de 2005. Metodologia: Estudo do tipo transversal, retrospectivo com abordagem quantitativa. Os dados foram coletados utilizando o Sistema de Informação sobre Mortalidade (SIM) da Secretaria de Saúde do Estado do Maranhão (SES). Para este estudo foram selecionados as Declarações de Óbito (DO) de mulheres com idade superior a 10 anos perfazendo um total de 8.417. Resultados: Foi evidenciado que a maioria das mulheres que foram a óbito encontrava-se na faixa etária de 70-89 anos, e dentre as principais causas de mortes femininas ocorridas no período destacaram-se as causas mal definidas (35,73%), as doenças cardiovasculares (11,37%), as doenças cerebrovasculares (11,05%) e o Diabetes Mellitus (7,05%). Conclusões: Apesar das imprecisões e falhas que podem ocorrer no preenchimento das declarações de óbito, os dados de mortalidade obtidos por meio dessa fonte podem trazer subsídios para um conhecimento aproximado das causas básicas de mortalidade e dar idéia de sua evolução no tempo e de sua distribuição no espaço, segundo atributos individuais das pessoas falecidas

A RESPONSABILIDADE CIVIL DO MÉDICO E O ATO MÉDICO:perspectivas interdisciplinares

Análise que objetiva identificar e explicar as responsabilidades do médico, tendo em vista as discussões sobre o que se entende por ato médico. Adota, para isso, uma perspectiva interdisciplinar, em grande parte fruto dos próprios autores que o escrevem. É uma pesquisa de natureza exploratória. Inicia os estudos através da evolução histórica, em seguida pela responsabilidade civil e disserta sobre o ato médico em si e no seu contexto. Por fim, distingue a obrigação médica de meio da de resultado e analisa que a responsabilidade civil do médico, além do papel de reparar ou compensar o dano, tem por objetivo secundário forçar os referidos profissionais a se adequarem às normas jurídicas de respeito à vida e buscarem sempre capacitação, a fim de evitar danos aos pacientes.Palavras-chave: Responsabilidade civil. Ato médico. Interdisciplinar. Dano.DOCTORS CIVIL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE MEDICAL ACT:interdisciplinary perspectivesAbstract: The present article has as objective to identify and explain doctor's responsibilities, pointing out the discussions about what is understood for medical acts. An interdisciplinary perspective is adopted, in a great part resulted by the authors who write it. It is a research of exploratory nature. It begins the studies through the historical evolution, later by civil responsibility and disserts about the medical act itself and its context. Finally it makes a distinction between medical obligation of manner from the one of result and analyses that the doctor's civil responsibility, beyond the function of watching out or compensating damage, has as a secondary objective to force the referred professionals to adjust themselves to juridical laws for life respect and search always for qualification, in order to avoid damages to patients.Keywords: Civil responsibility. Medical act. Interdisciplinary. DamageLA RESPONSABILIDAD CIVIL DEL MEDICO Y EL ACTO MÉDICO:pespectivas interdisciplinaresResumen: El presente articulo tiene por objetivo identificar y explicar las responsabilidades del médico, teniendo en vista las discusiones sobre lo que se entiende por acto médico. Adopta para tal, una perspectiva interdisciplinar, siendo en grande parte fruto de los propios autores que lo escriben. Es una pesquisa de naturaleza exploratoria. Inicia los estudios a través de la evolución histórica, sigue por la responsabilidad civil y diserta sobre el acto médico en si y en su contexto. Por fin, distingue la obligación médica de medio de aquella del resultado y reflexiona sobre que la responsabilidad civil del médico, además del papel de reparar o compensar el daño tiene por objetivo secundario forzar a los referidos profesionales a que se adapten al mercado de trabajo y busquen siempre la capacitación, con el fin de evitar daños a los pacientes.Palabras clave: Responsabilidad civil. Acto médico. Interdisciplinar. Daño

Developing A Tool For Accession To Assessment Exam Cytological Of The Cervix

Objective: To develop a tool for assessing the adherence of women performing the cytological examination of the cervix. Method: exploratory, descriptive with quantitative approach, which followed four steps for the construction of the instrument. Held between May and July 2015, using a sample of 384 women attending health facilities in João Pessoa city family. Data were analyzed by applying factor analysis and then correspondence analysis. Results: Scores were calculated from the influential factors reported by these women to perform the cytological examination, and then these scores were associated with the frequency of the examination. As for frequency, 37% performed annually, 25.1% every two years and 20.5% every six months, associated between the low and medium scores. While the high score was associated with a lower frequency, corresponding to 1.3% of those who underwent the test every three years and 15.9% who said they have set periods for their realization. Conclusion: The difficulties for not performing the examination, worse adherence to these women that health care, requiring effective interventions of professionals to minimize these barriers

NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES: a data set on carnivore distribution in the Neotropics

Mammalian carnivores are considered a key group in maintaining ecological health and can indicate potential ecological integrity in landscapes where they occur. Carnivores also hold high conservation value and their habitat requirements can guide management and conservation plans. The order Carnivora has 84 species from 8 families in the Neotropical region: Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Otariidae; Phocidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae. Herein, we include published and unpublished data on native terrestrial Neotropical carnivores (Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae). NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES is a publicly available data set that includes 99,605 data entries from 35,511 unique georeferenced coordinates. Detection/non-detection and quantitative data were obtained from 1818 to 2018 by researchers, governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, and private consultants. Data were collected using several methods including camera trapping, museum collections, roadkill, line transect, and opportunistic records. Literature (peer-reviewed and grey literature) from Portuguese, Spanish and English were incorporated in this compilation. Most of the data set consists of detection data entries (n = 79,343; 79.7%) but also includes non-detection data (n = 20,262; 20.3%). Of those, 43.3% also include count data (n = 43,151). The information available in NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES will contribute to macroecological, ecological, and conservation questions in multiple spatio-temporal perspectives. As carnivores play key roles in trophic interactions, a better understanding of their distribution and habitat requirements are essential to establish conservation management plans and safeguard the future ecological health of Neotropical ecosystems. Our data paper, combined with other large-scale data sets, has great potential to clarify species distribution and related ecological processes within the Neotropics. There are no copyright restrictions and no restriction for using data from this data paper, as long as the data paper is cited as the source of the information used. We also request that users inform us of how they intend to use the data

Growing knowledge: an overview of Seed Plant diversity in Brazil

Abstract An updated inventory of Brazilian seed plants is presented and offers important insights into the country's biodiversity. This work started in 2010, with the publication of the Plants and Fungi Catalogue, and has been updated since by more than 430 specialists working online. Brazil is home to 32,086 native Angiosperms and 23 native Gymnosperms, showing an increase of 3% in its species richness in relation to 2010. The Amazon Rainforest is the richest Brazilian biome for Gymnosperms, while the Atlantic Rainforest is the richest one for Angiosperms. There was a considerable increment in the number of species and endemism rates for biomes, except for the Amazon that showed a decrease of 2.5% of recorded endemics. However, well over half of Brazillian seed plant species (57.4%) is endemic to this territory. The proportion of life-forms varies among different biomes: trees are more expressive in the Amazon and Atlantic Rainforest biomes while herbs predominate in the Pampa, and lianas are more expressive in the Amazon, Atlantic Rainforest, and Pantanal. This compilation serves not only to quantify Brazilian biodiversity, but also to highlight areas where there information is lacking and to provide a framework for the challenge faced in conserving Brazil's unique and diverse flora