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    Ações de vigilância em saúde do trabalhador e ambiente: análise da atuação do Centro de Referência em Saúde do Trabalhador de Campinas em postos de combustível
    (Fundação Jorge Duprat Figueiredo de Segurança e Medicina do Trabalho - FUNDACENTRO, 2013-12-01) Santos, Ana Paula Lopes dos [UNIFESP]; Lacaz, Francisco Antonio de Castro [UNIFESP]; Universidade Federal Fluminense Instituto de Ciências Humanas e Filosofia Departamento de Psicologia; Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
    Due to the changes in the contemporary labor world and their repercussions on health and environment, new challenges are posed to Worker's health Integrated Care from the Brazilian National Unified Health System. Aiming at analyzing the experiences in this field, we examined the Surveillance Project carried out in Gas Stations by the Worker's Health Reference Center of Campinas, São Paulo. Based on interviews with health workers and other actors involved, we reconstructed its trajectory estimating its potentialities and difficulties. We observed that the collective construction of actions and the preparation of the agents to conduct surveillance in gas stations joined professionals from different institutions, with distinct backgrounds and expertise. In the interviewees' opinion, the process improved the involved agents' view concerning exposure to chemical risk, and gathered efforts which resulted in improving working conditions, and enlarging social control, besides regulating the gas production, distribution and consumption. They mentioned difficulties related to group work added to overload of work. We concluded that establishing priorities aimed at developing intra and inter-sector networks is strategic to change working processes in such a way that it benefits health and environment.
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    Follow-up of the air pollution and the human male-to-female ratio analysis in São Paulo, Brazil: a times series study
    (Bmj Publishing Group, 2013-01-01) El Khouri Miraglia, Simone Georges [UNIFESP]; Veras, Mariana Matera; Amato-Lourenco, Luis Fernando; Rodrigues-Silva, Fernando; Nascimento Saldiva, Paulo Hilario; Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP); Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
    Objectives in order to assess if ambient air pollution in urban areas could be related to alterations in male/female ratio this study objectives to evaluate changes in ambient particulate matter (PM10) concentrations after implementation of pollution control programmes in São Paulo city and the secondary sex ratio (SRR).Design and methods A time series study was conducted. São Paulo's districts were stratified according to the PM10 concentrations levels and were used as a marker of overall air pollution. the male ratio was chosen to represent the secondary sex ratio (SSR=total male birth/total births). the SSR data from each area was analysed according to the time variation and PM10 concentration areas using descriptive statistics. the strength association between annual average of PM10 concentration and SSR was performed through exponential regression, and it was adopted as a statistical significance level of p<0.05.Results the exponential regression showed a negative and significant association between PM10 and SSR. SSR varied from 51.4% to 50.7% in São Paulo in the analysed period (2000-2007). Considering the PM10 average concentration in São Paulo city of 44.72g/m(3) in the study period, the SSR decline reached almost 4.37%, equivalent to 30934 less male births.Conclusions Ambient levels of PM10 are negatively associated with changes in the SSR. Therefore, we can speculate that higher levels of particulate pollution could be related to increased rates of female births.