ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the influence of social incentives for adherence to tuberculosis (TB) treatment. Method: Qualitative study, in which 26 primary health care professionals of São Paulo were interviewed in 2015.Their testimonies were submitted to the speech analysis technique. The theoretical reference was the social determination of th...
Published in Curriculo sem Fronteiras
Resumen El presente trabajo de investigación tiene como objetivo analizar críticamente las representaciones del profesorado brasileño y colombiano sobre las políticas de evaluación externa implementadas en ambos países. Con tal propósito, se adoptó la perspectiva de los Estudios Históricos Comparados dentro de la matriz teórico-metodológica del Mat...
We study how a regulator can best allocate its limited inspection resources. We direct our analysis to a US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) inspection program that targeted dangerous establishments and allocated some inspections via random assignment. We find that inspections reduced serious injuries by an average of 9% over th...
We study the impact of a reform that increased the regulatory burden on temporary agency work (TAW) in Chile. Using a panel of manufacturing plants, we show that the use of TAW fell immediately after the regulation, with differential effects by plants’ size and volatility. Difference-in-differences estimates suggest that plants using TAW substitute...
Published in Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
This study explored sexual health education (SHE) through the lens of public school educators in the United States of America. It examined their comfort levels and the barriers educators faced by asking, “How comfortable are educators when communicating sexual health topics to adolescents for them to build a foundation to become sexually healthy ad...
Published in Central European Journal of Public Policy
Modern society has developed a growing dependence on electricity in order to carry out important societal functions. This implies the risk of cascading failures to society in the case of power shortage. The creation of a resilient and sustainable power energy system is therefore crucial. Equal crucial is the preparedness for the event of power shor...
Les projets d’aide internationale au développement sont extrêmement divers. Ils visent des objectifs multiples, prennent des formes variées, atteignent des dimensions très différentes et se déroulent dans des contextes très contrastés. Cette extraordinaire diversité suscite un discours méthodologique extrêmement normatif. En effet, concernant l’éva...
Abstract The purpose of this article is to discuss what has being disseminated and reproduced as local development, seeking to understand the problems arising from this phenomenon, particularly highlighting the promotion of market-oriented cities. We question the processes of development and public policies, advancing in the debate based on Karl Po...
Aims: The lesions at uterine cervix cannot be always established only with cytology. Thus, it is very important that cytological abnormality be subsequently correlated with biopsy for confirmation of cervical lesion. Thus it is to see histopathological findings of different types of cervical pathology in cervical biopsies. Methods: This is retrospe...
