The development of the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) has been
motivated by the perceived limitations of fundamentally deterministic and probabilistic …

Frontline health workers are the first and often the only access point to basic health care
services in low-and-middle income countries. However, the work and the issues frontline …

Since the beginning of the well-drilling activities of oil and gas industry, in the 19th century,
these activities have presented specific risks that, over the course of their evolution to the …

Em sistemas de saúde, a resiliência se manifesta na capacidade de se adaptar às
demandas ou aos eventos adversos e disruptivos, como epidemias e/ou desastres …

The referral prioritization system from primary care to specialized ambulatory care in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, was centralized until 2012. From 2012 onwards major reforms in course in …

BACKGROUND: Community Health Workers (CHW) are a category of social workers
described in many countries' health systems as responsible for engaging people in their …

Work in socio-technical systems (STS) exhibits dynamic and complex behaviors, becoming
difficult to model, evaluate and predict. This study develops an integrated soft computing …

Artisanal fishing with rafts is responsible for most of the Brazilian Northeastern region fishing
production. Fishing is done in open sea, with very small boats in the unpredictable and often …

In this paper we study the working conditions of Community Health Workers in performing
house calls within low-income, violent communities in order to understand the challenges in …

In a health system, resilience is manifested in the ability to adapt to demands or to adverse
and disruptive events, such as epidemics and/or disasters, adjusting its functioning to …