Integrated Health Service Delivery Networks And Tuberculosis Avoidable Hospitalizations: Is There A Relation Between Them In Brazil?

The early identification of the Breathing Symptoms within the scope of Primary Health Care is recommended, and is also one of the strategies of national sanitary authorities for reaching the elimination of tuberculosis. The purpose of this study is to consider which attributes and which territories have shown the most significant progress in Primary Health Care, in terms of coordination of Health Care Networks, and also check if those areas of Primary Health Care that are most critical regarding coordination, there were more or less cases of avoidable hospitalizations for tuberculosis. Methods: This is an ecological study that uses primary and secondary data. For analysis, coropletic maps were developed through the ArcGIS software, version 10.2. There was also the calculation of gross annual and Bayesian rates for hospitalizations for tuberculosis, for each Primary Health Care territory. Results: There were satisfactory results for attributes such as Population (n = 37; 80.4 %), Primary Health Care (n = 43; 93.5 %), Support System (n = 45; 97.8 %); the exceptions were Logistics System (n = 32; 76.0 %) and Governance System, with fewer units in good condition (n = 31; 67.3 %). There is no evidence of any connection between networks' coordination by Primary Health Care and tuberculosis avoidable admissions. Conclusion: The results show that progress has been made regarding the coordination of the Health Care Networks, and a positive trend has been shown, even though the levels are not excellent. It was found no relationship between the critical areas of Primary Health Care and tuberculosis avoidable hospitalizations, possibly because other variables necessary to comprehend the phenomena. © 2016 Popolin et al.16

Abstracting reliable parameters from time-correlated single photon counting experiments: I. A consideration of how many photons need to be collected and a simple pileup error correction for poly-exponential decay profiles without convolution of the lamp profile

An investigation of how many photons need to be collected, when using the time-correlated single photon counting method, in order to reproduce, within a reasonable accuracy, the generating function of a poly-exponential decay, indicates that this number is quite often considerably greater than that usually published. This poses a series of potential problems if considerably longer counting times are used. It is proposed that the solution is to collect data with substantial pileup. An analytical expression is given for correcting the errors due to pileup in poly-exponential decay profiles. The method, which requires only a knowledge of the STOP/START ratio and the experimental decay profiles, generates results basically identical to those obtained when pileup is intentionally limited, even for high pileup distortion, thus greatly reducing the time necessary to make measurements