Strengths and weaknesses in the high-risk baby care network.

Objective: To characterize the Stork Network in health care for high-risk babies, pointing out its main challenges.

Method: questionnaires were applied with those responsible for the babies and with network health professionals. Data were analyzed quantitatively.

VACCINATION: STATE-IMPLEMENTED MEDICO-SOCIAL AND LEGAL MEASURES.

The article reviews the medical and social vaccination-related initiatives in different countries of the world aimed at maintaining the balance between the public interest and respect for rights. A separate emphasis is put on exceptions to general rules of compulsory vaccination of children based on religious, philosophic and other personal beliefs of their parents. The connection between the medical and social initiatives applied in different countries, exemption from vaccination for non-medical reasons and reduction of herd immunity is determine.

The impacts of abnormal color vision on people's life: an integrative review.

Background: This article shows an integrative review on the impact that abnormal color vision may have on the daily routine of individuals.

Purpose: We followed the PRISMA guidelines for reviews and carried out researches in four databases (Pubmed, Lilacs, Scopus, and Web of Science) using keywords related to the impact of abnormal color vision.

Method: Initially, 805 articles were retrieved and after a first filtering stage, we selected 74 articles for a detailed analysis of the abstracts in which it was found that a total of 20 studies were in fact related to the topic of this review.

[The services for women victims of sexual violence: a qualitative study].

Objective: To assess public services attending female victims of sexual violence in the city of Sao Paulo.

Methods: This is a qualitative study conducted in two public services attending female victims of sexual violence. Interviews with 42 women were conducted, 13 of whom had sought these services for assistance and 29 were professionals working in these services.

[Automated cytophotomorphometric tests of blood smears in general clinical studies and population screening].

Automation of routine operations of photomorphometry of blood smears realized in the MEKOS-C cytoanalyzer helped create a new level of using a set of cytological tests, such as assessment of the leukocyte and erythrocyte formulae and of the histogram of hemoglobin distribution in red cells, estimation of leukocyte subtypes, assessment of the characteristics of the nucleolar system and the nucleoli-forming sites. Automated complex analysis of an increase in the measured characteristics of red and white blood cells impossible in common microscopy and flow cytoanalyzers appreciably improves the sensitivity and accuracy of tests and extends the range of their application. Low cost of analysis of a blood smear permits the use of MEKOS-C not only in clinical studies, but even in overall prophylactic screenings of the population.

[Content of chemical elements in the liquid manure of swine at a treatment plant using biological purification].

An atom absorption spectrophotometer was used to study 13 chemical elements in samples taken at the entrance of the purification station, at the mechanical step exit, at the biostep exist, and at the laguna exit as well as following treatment of the solid fraction in open surface purification and drying plots. It was found that part of the biogenic chemical elements remained in the liquid fraction after purification and were hazardous in terms of eutrophication of the water receptacle. A technology was worked out to treat the solid fraction, however, it did not provide for preserving the biogenic chemical elements.