scholarly journals Interdisciplinary network engagement in a non-formal education process to study foodborne Chagas disease puzzle in Brazilian Amazon

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tânia Cremonini de Araújo-Jorge ◽  
Cristina Xavier Almeida Borges ◽  
Alciana Araújo ◽  
Soraya Oliveira dos Santos ◽  
Elenild De Góes Costa
Keyword(s):  
Chagas Disease ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Interdisciplinary Team ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Interdisciplinary Network

Interdisciplinary collaboration is essential to overcome complex problems in contemporaneity. Chagas disease challenges in Brazilian Amazon, implicates One Health interdisciplinary approaches and teams to integrate health of humans, animals and the environment, to foster earlier detection of this zoonotic disease and better prevention. We studied the interdisciplinary team, the logistic of its long term field work and the education processes emerging on a non-formal education environment of a Chagas disease Protocol conduced in Pará. An alarming situation: notified acute cases almost doubled in two years. Photographs were presented (iconographic approach) to qualitatively describe the experience of the interdisciplinary team. Five recommendations were proposed at the end of the study. Our observational study with the interdisciplinary team confirmed the conception that “in connecting the purity of science with the pragmatism of policy, the intangibles of trust, rapport, and even friendship can be more potent than logic and more compelling than evidence”.

scholarly journals Delivering Interprofessional Education to Embed Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Effective Nutritional Care

2021 ◽  
pp. 159-169
Author(s):  
Julie Santy-Tomlinson ◽  
Celia V. Laur ◽  
Sumantra Ray
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Interprofessional Education ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Interdisciplinary Team ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Nutritional Care ◽  
Nutrition Care ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches

AbstractPrevious and forthcoming chapters describe how to improve nutrition care with an emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches. Developing and improving the skills and knowledge of the interdisciplinary team through interprofessional education are essential for embedding evidence-based, collaborative, nutritional care. This capacity building in turn supports delivery of effective nutritional care for older adults.

scholarly journals USE INTERACTIVE MEDIA TO ENHANCE CREATIVITY OF DESIGNERS BY STIMULATING THE SENSES IN THE CONTEXT OF ART DESIGN EDUCATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 3319-3328
Author(s):  
Xiaoxiao Liu ◽  
Yukari Nagai ◽  
Kumi Yabuuchi ◽  
Xiuxia Cui
Keyword(s):  
Design Education ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Art Design ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Core Issues

AbstractCreativity is very important for designers, and methods to stimulate designers' creativity are the long-term focus of art design education. The senses are an important channel for designers to receive information and define core issues. Stimulating the designer's senses can help enhance their perception and creativity, and is of great benefit for the quality and efficiency of the design outcome. Today's interactive media technology provides more possibilities and advantages for designers' perception and sensation. The purpose of this research is to explore a way to stimulate the designer's senses through the use of interactive media, thereby improving the designer's design thinking and creativity, and providing designers with innovative design support. By means of interactive ground projection and experiments, and discussion of the advantages of interactive media to stimulate designers' senses, this research proposes innovations in art design educational media, which is valuable for the training and learning of designers and the development of virtual education environment in the future.

scholarly journals Long-term control of Chagas disease in Venezuela: effects on serologic findings, electrocardiographic abnormalities, and clinical outcome.

Circulation ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 556-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Acquatella ◽  
F Catalioti ◽  
J R Gomez-Mancebo ◽  
V Davalos ◽  
L Villalobos
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Outcome ◽  
Chagas Disease ◽  
Electrocardiographic Abnormalities

scholarly journals ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION BY WASTEWATER FROM BROWN COAL PROCESSING ¬ A REMEDIATION CASE STUDY IN GERMANY

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arndt Wiessner ◽  
Jochen A. Müller ◽  
Peter Kuschk ◽  
Uwe Kappelmeyer ◽  
Matthias Kästner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Pilot Scale ◽  
Wastewater Disposal ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Phenolic Wastewater ◽  
Term Monitoring

The large scale of the contamination by the former carbo-chemical industry in Germany requires new and often interdisciplinary approaches for performing an economically sustainable remediation. For example, a highly toxic and dark-colored phenolic wastewater from a lignite pyrolysis factory was filled into a former open-cast pit, forming a large wastewater disposal pond. This caused an extensive environmental pollution, calling for an ecologically and economically acceptable strategy for remediation. Laboratory-scale investigations and pilot-scale tests were carried out. The result was the development of a strategy for an implementation of full-scale enhanced in situ natural attenuation on the basis of separate habitats in a meromictic pond. Long-term monitoring of the chemical and biological dynamics of the pond demonstrates the metamorphosis of a former highly polluted industrial waste deposition into a nature-integrated ecosystem with reduced danger for the environment, and confirmed the strategy for the chosen remediation management.

Acute Chagas Disease in the Brazilian Amazon: Epidemiological and clinical features

2017 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 176-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elenild de Góes Costa ◽  
Soraya Oliveira dos Santos ◽  
Mayira Sojo-Milano ◽  
Ednei C.C. Amador ◽  
Erica Tatto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chagas Disease ◽  
Clinical Features ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
Acute Chagas Disease

Narrative Inquiry, Reflection, and Researcher Bias: Thinking about Interactions of Differing Educational Narratives

2012 ◽  
pp. 69-97
Author(s):  
Shijing Xu
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
Researcher Bias

This paper shows how a long term process of narrative inquiry may act as a reflective tool for challenging and revising preliminary researcher frames for an inquiry. In this paper I return to a detailed set of fieldnotes taken over a several year period to show how my own assumptions and biases changed throughout the course of inquiry. This work is based on a study of newcomer Chinese family educational narratives. Several stories encountered during the first days of field work are revisited as they show up through the course of conducting field work.

What Is Peace? Being an Autoethnographic Account of Methodological Musings From the Beach

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 371-380
Author(s):  
Anandam Kavoori
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Peace Studies ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
Writing Project ◽  
Emotional Process ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Parts

This autoethnographic essay is focused on methodological space of “problematization”—the wrenching intellectual and emotional process (and lived experience) that a scholar goes through before settling into a long-term writing project—in this case travel to different parts of the world, in an attempt to explore the idea and experience of “Peace” in each of those places. Weaving through elements of family memoir, Georgia history, eco-criticism, and Peace Studies (across different sub fields), the essay illuminates the personal and liminal space of methodological engagement before field work.

scholarly journals Chagas' disease in the Brazilian Amazon: I - a short review

1994 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Rodrigues Coura ◽  
Angela Cristina Verissimo Junqueira ◽  
Cristina Maria Giordano ◽  
Ilra Renata Komoda Funatsu
Keyword(s):  
Trypanosoma Cruzi ◽  
Chagas Disease ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Ecological Balance ◽  
Domestic Cycle ◽  
Endemic Areas ◽  
Reservoir Hosts

At least eighteen species of triatominae have been found in the Brazilian Amazon, nine of them naturally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi or "cruzi-like" trypanosomes and associated with numerous wild reservoirs. Despite the small number of human cases of Chagas' disease described to date in the Brazilian Amazon the risk that the disease will become endemic in this area is increasing for the following reasons: a) uncontrolled deforestation and colonization altering the ecological balance between reservoir hosts and wild vectors; b) the adaptation of reservoir hosts of T.cruzi and wild vectors to peripheral and intradomiciliary areas, as the sole feeding alternative; c) migration of infected human population from endemic areas, accompanied by domestic reservoir hosts (dogs and cats) or accidentally carrying in their baggage vectors already adapted to the domestic habitat. In short, risks that Chagas' disease will become endemic to the Amazon appear to be linked to the transposition of the wild cycle to the domestic cycle in that area or to transfer of the domestic cycle from endemic areas to the Amazon.

scholarly journals House improvements and community participation in the control of Triatoma dimidiata re-infestation in Jutiapa, Guatemala

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. S168-S178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlota Monroy ◽  
Dulce Maria Bustamante ◽  
Sandy Pineda ◽  
Antonieta Rodas ◽  
Xochitl Castro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Construction Materials ◽  
Interdisciplinary Team ◽  
Ecosystem Approach ◽  
Laboratory Studies ◽  
Control Approach ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Wall Construction ◽  
Local Materials ◽  
Hygienic Conditions

The deterioration or absence of plaster walls in houses and poor hygienic conditions are the most important risk factors for indoor Triatoma dimidiata infestation in Guatemala. A cross-disciplinary study was conducted addressing T. dimidiata infestation, household hygiene, and housing construction. The study focused on local materials and cultural aspects (including gender roles) that could lead to long-term improvements in wall construction. A new plaster mix for walls was developed on the basis of laboratory studies on construction materials recommended by local villagers. Four villages with persistent (post-spraying) T. dimidiata infestation were studied. In two villages, an ecosystem approach was implemented, and the homeowners conducted wall improvements and household sanitation with the support of the interdisciplinary team (the ecosystem intervention). In the other two villages, a vector control approach based on insecticide spraying was adopted (traditional intervention). Both interventions were associated with a reduction in T. dimidiata infestation, but only the ecosystem approach produced important housing improvements (sanitation and wall construction) capable of preventing T. dimidiata re-infestation in the long term.

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