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Studies on sustainability have not been based on the social dimension, which has dealt essentially with urban contexts, despite the rural territory; and research on rural lodging has rarely focused on the spatial attributes as sign of socialization for social sustainability. Therefore, the objective of this research was to demonstrate socialization in spaces of rural lodging in Brazil, which can mean social sustainability for the Brazilian rural territory.

Os aspectos histórico-culturais e sociais influenciam na ocorrência da violência doméstica contra a mulher, atrelando a ideia de inferioridade feminina em relação ao homem. Portanto, este estudo objetiva descrever as representações sociais de agentes comunitários de saúde sobre os aspectos histórico-culturais e sociais no contexto da violência doméstica contra a mulher.

Radical criminology was significant in the late 60s for advocating the illustration of class formation, structure and relation to crime. It has been considered that crime and criminality are not innate to individuals but their social circumstances. A specific mode of production ensures a specific form of society with a particular structure and functioning, thus also exists with spacing the crime and criminality. Henceforth the crime scene in late capitalism provides the virtual ground that carries a latent space for experiencing criminality.

Poor personal hygiene and lack of knowledge about hand washing, leads to communicable diseases. Personal hygiene plays a major role to promote healthy life. The objective of this study is to promote hand washing and practices among primary school children in the Kasongo Municipality, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is a cross sectional descriptive study conducted on 294 school children of Kasongo municipality. All the students were interviewed with a structured questionnaire (pretest).

The objective of this work was to evaluate the presence of As in the tracajá tissue consumed by indigenous people and added to the environment by the gold mining activity. The study area was the Kayapó indigenous region, on the Baú river, in the municipality of Altamira-PA, Brazilian Amazon. HNO3 and microwave were used for sample digestion. As was quantified by Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry with Hydride Generation.

Budget execution is at the core of government businesses globally. This paper examines the effect of budget execution on health service deliver in Lira district, northern Uganda. We sampled two government-aided health Center IVs of Amach and Ogur in Lira district. We adopted a case study design and employed a mixed method approach. We sampled 78 respondents out of 96 health workers which included administrators, finance department, health workers, and health unit management committee. Simple random sampling technique and purposive sampling, were used to select the respondents.

Kolkata has always been a great hub of education for ages, not only in West Bengal but in the entire country. The history of Kolkata is reflected by its rich heritage sites as obviously. It was also the birthplace of modern Indian literary and artistic thoughts many Institutions have emerged in this Kolkata city. Among the various Institutes that arose in Kolkata is “Kolkata Asiatic Society”. It was established on 15 January, 1784 by the efforts of Sir William Jhones. He was a famous orientalist, poet and a judge of the Supreme Court at Kolkata.

This study explores the relationship of school dropout with poverty, having as interface the family with students in the modality of Youth and Adult Education (YAE). To this end, the context and influence of the family as a generational link of poverty is a premise for the issue of school dropout, age/grade distortion, and absenteeism. Indeed, many young people and adults who are unable to complete their studies build families and throughout their lives the generational poverty system is likely to be permeated by lack of educational qualification.

O envelhecimento é uma fase natural da vida do ser humano, o crescimento da população de idosos vem aumentando muito nos últimos anos, com isso, é gerada novas demandas que precisam ser atendidas, entre as várias necessidades existentes, a depressão entre idosos em Instituições de Longa Permanência é uma delas. O presente estudo tem como objetivo, identificar as principais causas da depressão em idosos institucionalizados. Para isso, foi desenvolvido uma revisão integrativa da literatura.

Objective: To evaluate the profile of dispensing contraceptives used by women in a drugstore in southern Minas Gerais. Methodology: Exploratory and descriptive field research. The chi-square test was used in the construction of confidence intervals (CI) for proportion and difference between two proportions, at the nominal level of 5% significance. Results: It was verified that the most frequent age group was 26 to 35 years (40.00%). When dealing with a medical prescription, 45 (73.77%) reported having been prescribed by the doctor. Regarding the time of use, 23 (37.70%) use 1 to 5 years.