Health communication by virtual environments: an experience report.

Objective: to report an experience of health communication with a strategy based on hosting health videos in a virtual environment.

Method: a video sharing site (YouTube), accessible websites, and tools to facilitate the execution of tasks (applications) were used to report a health education experience based on the hosting of videos addressing the subjects of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, airway obstruction by foreign bodies, and hemorrhages.

Results: in 17 months, there were 31,727 views for the resuscitation and the obstruction videos, which were accessed by people from 69 countries, especially Brazil and the United States; the videos about hemorrhages had 5,400 views, by viewers from the same countries.

Workloads, strain processes and sickness absenteeism in nursing.

Objective: to analyze the workloads, strain processes and sickness absenteeism among nursing workers from a teaching hospital in the Brazilian Central-West.

Method: a descriptive and cross-sectional study was developed with a quantitative approach, based on the theoretical framework of the social determination of the health-disease process. Data were collected between January and December 2009, based on records of complaints related to occupational exposure among nursing professionals, filed in the software Monitoring System of Nursing Workers' Health.