An experience on environmental education applied to public health system workers

Apesar do crescente interesse sobre a educação ambiental e saúde na sociedade, a formação acadêmica ainda tem se mantido distante quanto à capacitação de profissionais de saúde com conhecimento e envolvimento sobre as questões ambientais. A Universalidade, como um princípio do Sistema Único de Saúde de assegurar a saúde como um direito de todos e como um direito humano à manutenção da vida individual e social, torna imprescindível a formação dos profissionais de saúde neste âmbito. Trata-se de um relato de experiência de uma atividade desenvolvida por alunas do Mestrado Profissional em Ensino na Saúde da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul que visou construir e aplicar estratégias pedagógicas de sensibilização aos trabalhadores de saúde para a educação ambiental, embasadas nos fundamentos do Sentipensar e no conceito de universalidade de modo a formar agentes multiplicadores para a educação ambiental. A experiência desenvolvida proporcionou interação com a temática contextualizada aos ambientes de trabalho.Despite the growing interest in environmental education and health in society, academic courses of the health area still neglect the training of health professionals with knowledge about environmental issues. Universality, as a principle of the Public Health System to ensure health as a common right and as a human right to the maintenance of individual and social life, can only be attained through the training of health professionals with this conviction. This is an experience report of an activity developed by students of the Master Degree Program in Health Teaching of the Medicine School ate the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. The article reports the aim to build and apply teaching strategies to raise awareness on health workers for environmental education. This study is based in the fundamentals of Sentipensar and the universality concept in order to form multipliers for environmental education. The experience developed some interactions with its theme in the work environments

Characterisation of microbial attack on archaeological bone

As part of an EU funded project to investigate the factors influencing bone preservation in the archaeological record, more than 250 bones from 41 archaeological sites in five countries spanning four climatic regions were studied for diagenetic alteration. Sites were selected to cover a range of environmental conditions and archaeological contexts. Microscopic and physical (mercury intrusion porosimetry) analyses of these bones revealed that the majority (68%) had suffered microbial attack. Furthermore, significant differences were found between animal and human bone in both the state of preservation and the type of microbial attack present. These differences in preservation might result from differences in early taphonomy of the bones. © 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved