QUALIDADE DE VIDA NO TRABALHO: UM ESTUDO NO DISTRITO SANITÁRIO ESPECIAL INDÍGENA (DSEI) GUAMÁ-TOCANTINS, PARÁ, BRASIL

Recognizedforattractingandretainingtalent,lifequalityatwork(LQW)synthesizesaspectsvaluedbyworkers,whoareabletoinfluencestronglytheachievementoftheorganizationalobjectives.Underthisperspective,thisresearchcarriedouttheanalysisofthelifequalityatworkintheGuamá-TocantinsIndigenous Special Sanitary District (ISSD), locatedintheBelémdoParáCity,ParáState,Brazil.Forthispurpose,adescriptivesurveywascarriedoutwith67ofthe117workers,whoformedtheresearchuniverse,usinganon-probabilisticsamplingbytype.Dataprocessingwasquantitativeandhasusedexploratoryfactorialanalysis(EFA),descriptivestatistics,andclusteranalysis(CA).Thefactorialanalysishasidentifiedfourfactorsthatexplained72.50%ofthedatavariance,thatwere:“CompensationandCompliancewithLaborLegislation”(21.26%),“BalancebetweenWorkHoursandPersonalLife”(18.81%),“AutonomyandTrainingforWork”(17.23%),and“SocialInsertionandOrganizationalImage”(15.20%).Thedescriptivetechniquesshowedthatthe“CompensationandCompliancewithLaborLegislation”factorwasthebestratedbytheintervieweesand“AutonomyandTrainingforWork”factorwastheworstratedbythem.Theclusteranalysisclassifiedrespondentsintothreegroupsandshowedapositiveevaluationoflifequalityatworkformostrespondents,especiallyamongthosewithhighereducationandpay.Thus,thestudy'sfindingsprovedtobeabletoguidepeoplemanagementstrategiesandtogroundfutureresearchtoimprovelaborrelationsintheorganization.

Reversing the Chicago River

This chapter looks at the Chicago River and its effect on the lakefront. The chapter investigates how efforts to combat pollution in the river had the effect of cleaning up the water along the lakefront. It demonstrates how the lakefront ceased to be seen as a conduit for commerce — or as a repository for garbage and waste — and came to be regarded as an environmental and recreational amenity. The chapter then shifts to discuss the Chicago River's expansion. It details the obvious implications of the plan to reverse the river, sending sewage through the new canal into the Des Plaines River (whence to the Illinois River), for Illinois communities downstream from Chicago, such as Joliet and Peoria. The chapter also talks about the creation of the sanitary district at the close of the nineteenth century. It illustrates how the opening of the canal and the river's reversal produced an equally dramatic improvement in the quality of the water in the lake bordering Chicago. Ultimately, the chapter evaluates the challenges on the “Chicago diversion” of the waters of Lake Michigan and an endless stream of attempts to resolve the water diversion controversy.

Epidemiological profile of diseases caused by aedes aegypti in sanitary districts of São Luis, Brazil

In recent decades, the diseases caused by the Aedes aegypti have been responsible for a high number of mortality cases worldwide, making it a serious public health problem. This article describes the diseases prevalence caused by Aedes Aegypti: Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya, in the Sanitary Districts of city of São Luis - in the state of Maranhão in Brazil, from 2007 to 2017. This study is based on data analysis recorded by the Information System on Diseases of Compulsory Declaration (SINAN). From 2007 to 2017, 25,124 dengue cases were reported in the city of São Luís, there was an increase in prevalence in 2011 with 5,378 cases, about 53% of recorded cases in the State of Maranhão, probably due to the presence of new circulating serotypes: DENV-1; DENV-2 AND DENV-4, with 14 deaths. Female gender predominated among registered cases, and the age group with the highest number of reported cases was 20 to 39 years. In 2015 started the first reports of the Zika virus and chikungunya, both with epidemiological peak in 2016. São Luis has 229 urban neighborhoods and 165 rural neighborhoods distributed in seven health districts. The Bequimão Sanitary District in the urban area of city of São Luis consists of 64 neighborhoods, has recorded a higher number of dengue cases, 6,239 cases. From 2015 to 2017, it reported 864 cases of Zika virus and 407 cases of chikungunya. It is concluded that the prevalence of diseases, caused by Aedes aegypti, shows endemic variation, in the three arboviruses, related to population density and local sanitary conditions, characteristics which are present in the Sanitary District of Bequimão where it's registered a lack of sanitary infrastructure and intermittent water supply, the study notes the need to adopt control strategies of sanitary officers, and agencies and awareness of the population. Key messages The research produced knowledge about the impact of urbanization on the epidemiology of dengue, zika and chikungunya, enabling knowledge of the sanitation conditions of the studied city. The knowledge produced by the research substantiates strategies and actions to combat the vector by the health authorities and conscious action of the population.