Turismo de eventos : desafios prementes da cidade de João Pessoa

Mestrado em Gestão e Desenvolvimento em TurismoEste trabalho teve como ponto focal o estudo das necessidades urgentes do Turismo de Eventos da cidade de João Pessoa, compondo-se de um referencial teórico e uma metodologia delineada através das entrevistas realizadas com os gestores públicos e privados diretamente ligados a esse segmento do turismo. A junção dessas duas partes culminou com a indicação de alguns fatores de melhoria para esse destino. No primeiro momento houve um fortalecimento da obra através do estudo teórico que foi composto pela evolução desse segmento ao longo das décadas, pela captação dos eventos e sua operacionalização com ênfase na imagem do destino como fator fortalecedor na atratividade do mesmo, prosseguindo com o estudo das estratégias que melhor podem ser adequadas a esse setor do turismo, passando pelo planejamento e suas vantagens competitivas, finalizando com a parte teórica dos estudos sobre sustentabilidade do destino e a utilização de clusters com o objetivo de fortalecer a competitividade. O segundo momento foi composto principalmente das informações oriundas das entrevistas realizadas com os gestores públicos e privados diretamente ligados ao segmento do Turismo de Eventos. Juntamente com as bases teóricas, foi concluído que a cidade encontra-se no estágio introdutório desse tipo de turismo, contudo pode tornar-se um destino mais competitivo, neste segmento, desde que sejam trabalhadas as questões abordadas como fatores negativos, levantados ao longo desta obra. ABSTRACT: The main purpose of this work was to study of the urgent needs of the Tourism of Events of the city of João Pessoa. It is composed of tow main parts: the theoretical review and a methodology, which was delineated through interviews directly with public and private managers connected with this tourism segment. The junction of these two parts culminated with the indication of some improvement factors for that destination. In the first part there was an invigoration of the work through the theoretical study, which was composed by the evolution of that segment throughout the decades, by the reception of the events and its operationalization with emphasis on the image of the destination as key factor in its attractiveness, by the study of the strategies that appropriately address that tourism segment, by the planning and its competitive advantages, and by concluding with the studies about the destination sustainability and how to cluster it in order to strengthen its competitiveness. The second part was composed mainly by the information originating from of the interviews accomplished with public and private managers linked to the tourism of events segment. Together with the theoretical bases, it was concluded that João Pessoa city is in the introductory phase of this type of tourism, but it can become a more competitive destination in this segment as long as the negative factors lifted along this work are properly corrected

TURISMO DE EVENTOS: DESAFÍOS ESTRATÉGICOS DE LA CIUDAD DE JOÃO PESSOA (BRASIL)

The authors analyse the main strategic challenges of tourism of events in João Pessoa city, Paraíba, Brazil. Departing from a set of ten interviews, three with public institutions responsible for the tourist activities in Paraíba State, Brazil, two with private institutions responsible for booking events and with five pesos an firms that provide events services, the authors conclude that João Pessoa is in the embryonic state in the tourism of events. Due to its natural characteristics, it can be concluded that João Pessoa can (and should) position itself in the events market as a status destination.Los autores analizan los desafíos estratégicos del turismo de eventos en la ciudad de João Pessoa, en Paraíba, Brasil. Partiendo de un conjunto de diez entrevistas, tres con instituciones públicas responsables de la actividad turística del Estado de Paraíba, dos con instituciones privadas responsables de la captación de eventos y cinco con empresas pessoenses dedicadas a la promoción y organización de eventos, los autores concluyen que João Pessoa se encuentra en una fase embrionaria en el turismo de eventos. Debido a sus características naturales se afirma que João Pessoa puede (y debe) posicionarse como destino status

Covid-19 in adolescent patients in the Brazilian population with sickle cell anemia: A Review

Introduction: Sickle cell anemia due to recent scientific evidence suggests that individuals with disease are considered a risk group and SARS-CoV-2 and spreads rapidly in this group of patients with diseases due to lack of inherited immunity, has a high lethality rate among young people and children and patients with associated comorbidities such as Diabetes Mellitus. Objective: to analyze the profile of patients with sickle cell anemia and their immunological motivations for worsening in positive cases of COVID-19 from a systematic review. Results: Initially, 217 articles were identified, of which 213 were removed because they were not related to the theme of the review, or because they were duplicated or did not have the abstract. The 04 selected articles were classified into two thematic axes to be performed the analysis. Discussion:  This systematic review study is the first with sickle cell anemia and COVID-19 in the adolescent population with a limited resource configuration that shows the inherent need in the management of both diseases. However, in this systematic review, the four included studies showed a favorable evolution of the infectious process by COVID-19, and deaths occurred in adolescent patients who concomitantly had multiple comorbidities, for example, DM. Conclusion: It was found in this systematic review study that COVID-19 infection may accentuate the presence of vasculopathy in patients with sickle cell anemia and may increase pain to varying degrees

Capacitação de equipes do Núcleo de Apoio à Saúde da Família para o combate à dengue por meio da mobilização social

A dengue é uma doença endêmica no Brasil e um grave problema de saúde pública. Estratégias tradicionais de combate baseadas em um modelo educativo pontual e verticalizado têm sido adotadas há décadas sem eficácia prática. Este artigo relata a experiência de uma ação de extensão que capacitou profissionais do Núcleo de Apoio à Saúde da Família para a articulação de uma Rede de Mobilização Social, uma estratégia inovadora de promoção à saúde para o combate à dengue em Governador Valadares – MG. Professores, gestores municipais e uma médica sanitarista elaboraram seis oficinas organizadas para implementar a lógica da rede pela abordagem das potencialidades, aspirações, adversidades e expectativas em busca de soluções alternativas para problemas e alcançar um diagnóstico participativo. A equipe de aplicação foi capacitada para utilização de metodologias ativas baseadas em debates e formulação de propostas para enfrentamento da problemática. Posteriormente, em seis encontros, oficinas foram aplicadas às equipes do Núcleo de Apoio à Saúde da Família (30 participantes por oficina) que ficaram responsáveis por replicar os conhecimentos para as equipes da Estratégia Saúde da Família do município. As ações tiveram duração de 24 meses e as principais dificuldades foram o pouco apoio governamental e disponibilidade restrita dos integrantes do Núcleo de Apoio à Saúde da Família para atuar como equipe condutora do modelo nas comunidades locais. Apesar disso, espera-se que as atividades de capacitação desenvolvidas relatadas aqui tenham potencial de promover ações duradouras, intersetoriais e ancoradas na participação comunitária, e estimular condutas essenciais no combate à dengue. Palavras-chave: Educação em saúde; Prevenção e Controle; Arbovirose; Participação Comunitária; Relações Comunidade-Instituição Training of teams from the Support Center to Family Health for the fight against dengue through social mobilization Abstract: In Brazil, dengue is an endemic disease and a serious public health problem. Traditional strategies to fight against it based on a punctual and verticalized educational model were adopted decades ago with no practical efficacy. This article reports the experience of an extension action that trained professionals from the Support Center to Family Health to articulate a Social Mobilization Network, an innovating health promotion strategy for the fight against dengue in Governador Valadares – MG. Professors, municipal managers, and a sanitary physician designed six workshops to implement the network's logic by approaching the potentialities, aspirations, adversities, and expectations in the search for alternative solutions to several problems and reaching a participatory diagnosis. The application team was trained in using active methodologies based on debates and on the formulation of proposals for coping with the problem. Subsequently, in six meetings, the workshops were applied to the teams of Support Center to Family Health (30 participants per workshop), which were responsible for replicating the knowledge to the municipality's Family Health Strategy teams. The activities lasted 24 months, and the main difficulties were the scarce governmental support and the limited availability of the members of the Support Center to Family Health to act as the leading team of the model in the local communities. Despite this, it is hoped that the training activities herein developed and reported may be able to promote lasting and intersectoral actions anchored in community participation and foster encouragement for necessary actions in the fight against dengue. Keywords: Health Education; Prevention and Control; Arbovirus; Community Engagement; Community-Institution Relationship

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

NEOTROPICAL XENARTHRANS: a data set of occurrence of xenarthran species in the Neotropics

Xenarthrans – anteaters, sloths, and armadillos – have essential functions for ecosystem maintenance, such as insect control and nutrient cycling, playing key roles as ecosystem engineers. Because of habitat loss and fragmentation, hunting pressure, and conflicts with 24 domestic dogs, these species have been threatened locally, regionally, or even across their full distribution ranges. The Neotropics harbor 21 species of armadillos, ten anteaters, and six sloths. Our dataset includes the families Chlamyphoridae (13), Dasypodidae (7), Myrmecophagidae (3), Bradypodidae (4), and Megalonychidae (2). We have no occurrence data on Dasypus pilosus (Dasypodidae). Regarding Cyclopedidae, until recently, only one species was recognized, but new genetic studies have revealed that the group is represented by seven species. In this data-paper, we compiled a total of 42,528 records of 31 species, represented by occurrence and quantitative data, totaling 24,847 unique georeferenced records. The geographic range is from the south of the USA, Mexico, and Caribbean countries at the northern portion of the Neotropics, to its austral distribution in Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and Uruguay. Regarding anteaters, Myrmecophaga tridactyla has the most records (n=5,941), and Cyclopes sp. has the fewest (n=240). The armadillo species with the most data is Dasypus novemcinctus (n=11,588), and the least recorded for Calyptophractus retusus (n=33). With regards to sloth species, Bradypus variegatus has the most records (n=962), and Bradypus pygmaeus has the fewest (n=12). Our main objective with Neotropical Xenarthrans is to make occurrence and quantitative data available to facilitate more ecological research, particularly if we integrate the xenarthran data with other datasets of Neotropical Series which will become available very soon (i.e. Neotropical Carnivores, Neotropical Invasive Mammals, and Neotropical Hunters and Dogs). Therefore, studies on trophic cascades, hunting pressure, habitat loss, fragmentation effects, species invasion, and climate change effects will be possible with the Neotropical Xenarthrans dataset

Impact of COVID-19 on cardiovascular testing in the United States versus the rest of the world

Objectives: This study sought to quantify and compare the decline in volumes of cardiovascular procedures between the United States and non-US institutions during the early phase of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the care of many non-COVID-19 illnesses. Reductions in diagnostic cardiovascular testing around the world have led to concerns over the implications of reduced testing for cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity and mortality. Methods: Data were submitted to the INCAPS-COVID (International Atomic Energy Agency Non-Invasive Cardiology Protocols Study of COVID-19), a multinational registry comprising 909 institutions in 108 countries (including 155 facilities in 40 U.S. states), assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on volumes of diagnostic cardiovascular procedures. Data were obtained for April 2020 and compared with volumes of baseline procedures from March 2019. We compared laboratory characteristics, practices, and procedure volumes between U.S. and non-U.S. facilities and between U.S. geographic regions and identified factors associated with volume reduction in the United States. Results: Reductions in the volumes of procedures in the United States were similar to those in non-U.S. facilities (68% vs. 63%, respectively; p = 0.237), although U.S. facilities reported greater reductions in invasive coronary angiography (69% vs. 53%, respectively; p < 0.001). Significantly more U.S. facilities reported increased use of telehealth and patient screening measures than non-U.S. facilities, such as temperature checks, symptom screenings, and COVID-19 testing. Reductions in volumes of procedures differed between U.S. regions, with larger declines observed in the Northeast (76%) and Midwest (74%) than in the South (62%) and West (44%). Prevalence of COVID-19, staff redeployments, outpatient centers, and urban centers were associated with greater reductions in volume in U.S. facilities in a multivariable analysis. Conclusions: We observed marked reductions in U.S. cardiovascular testing in the early phase of the pandemic and significant variability between U.S. regions. The association between reductions of volumes and COVID-19 prevalence in the United States highlighted the need for proactive efforts to maintain access to cardiovascular testing in areas most affected by outbreaks of COVID-19 infection

Educomunicação e suas áreas de intervenção: Novos paradigmas para o diálogo intercultural

oai:omp.abpeducom.org.br:publicationFormat/1O material aqui divulgado representa, em essência, a contribuição do VII Encontro Brasileiro de Educomunicação ao V Global MIL Week, da UNESCO, ocorrido na ECA/USP, entre 3&nbsp;e 5 de novembro de 2016. Estamos diante de um conjunto de 104 papers executivos, com uma média de entre 7 e 10 páginas, cada um. Com este rico e abundante material, chegamos ao sétimo e-book publicado pela ABPEducom, em seus seis primeiros anos de existência. A especificidade desta obra é a de trazer as “Áreas de Intervenção” do campo da Educomunicação, colocando-as a serviço de uma meta essencial ao agir educomunicativo: o diálogo intercultural, trabalhado na linha do tema geral do evento internacional: Media and Information Literacy: New Paradigms for Intercultural Dialogue