Tobacco Industry
Mostrando 13-24 de 50 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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13. Physical activity, absenteeism and the need for health care by automotive industry employees from São Caetano do Sul / Atividade física, absenteísmo e demanda por atendimento à saúde de funcionários de indústria automobilística de São Caetano do Sul
Background: By fostering physical activities and healthy life behavior, one can prevent chronic diseases. The health-related costs represent a heavy burden not only to the governmental entities but also to some private companies with many different levels of activities. The main objective of this study was to verify the association between absenteeism due to
Publicado em: 2009
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14. Estado funcional de fagócitos após a exposição de ratos ao formaldeído: relevância para a inflamação alérgica pulmonar. / Functional status of phagocytes after rat formaldehyde exposure: relevance for allergic lung inflammation.
Formaldehyde (FA) is an ambiental pollutant generated in industry and by burning of tobacco, alcohol, gasoline and LPG. As an airways irritant agent, the exposure to it may affect the modulation of allergic lung inflammation (ALI) triggered by unrelated antigens. We studied the functional activity of lung phagocytes and bone marrow cells from male Wistar rat
Publicado em: 2008
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15. Family Agriculture and Food Security: the importance of production for self-consumption / Agricultura Familiar e Segurança Alimentar: a importância da produção para o autoconsumo
The present dissertation approaches the theme of food security in the family agricultural context, having as its basis a research performed in the municipalities of Pelotas, São Lourenço do Sul and Canguçu. The focus of the study is centered upon the issue of self-consumption, which involves a myriad of practices adopted by families to ensure the full or
Publicado em: 2008
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16. Alterações dos fatores de risco cardiovasculares segundo o consumo de óleo de coco.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) represents the principal cause of mortality in this country and the prevalence is increasing amongst the lower socioeconomic classes. Modifiable risk factors, that can be removed or controlled by means of changes of lifestyle, are distinguished amongst the variables related to this occurence. Of these factors, tobacco smoking, se
Publicado em: 2007
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17. A INCORPORAÇÃO DE REQUISITOS ERGONÔMICOS NA INDÚSTRIA CALÇADISTA: UM MODELO EM PROL DA SAÚDE DOS DIABÉTICOS / THE INTEGRATION OF ERGONOMIC REQUIREMENTS AT SHOES INDUSTRY: A MODEL TO INCREASE THE HEALTHINESS OF PEOPLE WITH DIABETIC FEET
This dissertation presents the results of a research that lead to a theoretical model proposing the integration of ergonomic requirements at shoes´ industry in order to increase the healthiness of people with diabetic feet. It´s expected that the model here presented benefits, by extension, also patients injured by other pathologies that causes neuropathyc
Publicado em: 2006
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18. A tutela jurisdicional na responsabilidade civil das indústrias do tabaco por danos advindos do tabagismo
Por meio desse trabalho, intitulado A tutela jurisdicional na responsabilidade civil da indústria do tabaco por danos advindos do tabagismo, procura-se demonstrar que o ordenamento jurídico pátrio encontra-se apto para fundamentar condenações judiciais contra a indústria do fumo, em ações movidas contra ela por fumantes (ou seus familiares, em caso d
Publicado em: 2006
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19. ANALYSES OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE OF A TOBACCO INDUSTRY HEAD TO THE EXCELLENCE: A STUDY CASE / ANÁLISE DA MUDANÇA ORGANIZACIONAL DE UMA INDÚSTRIA FUMAGEIRA RUMO À EXCELÊNCIA: ESTUDO DE CASO
A expansão do mercado internacional e as constantes mudanças no ambiente externo tornam as organizações e seus processos cada vez mais flexíveis. As novas imposições de mercado transformam os conceitos do sistema mecanicista em um sistema de inter-relações, nas organizações. A organização de hoje precisa quebrar seus paradigmas e preparar seus c
Publicado em: 2006
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20. Clonagem do cDNA que codifica a enzima UDP-glicose pirofosforilase de batata (Solanum tuberosum L.). / Cloning of cdna encoding potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) udp-glucose pyrophosphorylase.
Biotechnology is revolutionazing human activity in several fields. In forestry, new technologies like transgenies, genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics have been quickly consolidated. Assossiating these technologies with conventional forestry breeding will accelerate the process of obtaining new trees with specific wood properties for the paper and pulp i
Publicado em: 2004
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21. Do we believe the tobacco industry lied to us? Association with smoking behavior in a military population
Despite the dangers of smoking, tobacco companies continue to impede tobacco control efforts through deceptive marketing practices. Media campaigns that expose these practices have been effective in advancing anti-industry attitudes and reducing smoking initiation among young people, yet the association between knowledge of industry practices and smoking ces
Oxford University Press.
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22. Waking a Sleeping Giant: The Tobacco Industry’s Response to the Polonium-210 Issue
The major tobacco manufacturers discovered that polonium was part of tobacco and tobacco smoke more than 40 years ago and attempted, but failed, to remove this radioactive substance from their products. Internal tobacco industry documents reveal that the companies suppressed publication of their own internal research to avoid heightening the public’s aware
American Public Health Association.
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23. Turning negative into positive: public health mass media campaigns and negative advertising
Literature suggests that ‘negative advertising’ is an effective way to encourage behavioral changes, but it has enjoyed limited use in public health media campaigns. However, as public health increasingly focuses on non-communicable disease prevention, negative advertising could be more widely applied. This analysis considers an illustrative case from to
Oxford University Press.
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24. Project Cerberus: Tobacco Industry Strategy to Create an Alternative to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Between 1999 and 2001, British American Tobacco, Philip Morris, and Japan Tobacco International executed Project Cerberus to develop a global voluntary regulatory regime as an alternative to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). They aimed to develop a global voluntary regulatory code to be overseen by an independent audit body and to focus att
American Public Health Association.