The quality management of services and products in health institutions covers several areas such as health education, access to information on prevention programs, disease tracking, professional training, availability of diagnostic equipment and therapeutic resources available, which demonstrates the importance that this management has to ensure an efficient administration. To ensure excellence, institutions ar...
This work summarises the strategy adopted in the European research project PERSISTAH. It aims to increase the resilience of the population, focusing on the existing primary schools in the Algarve (Portugal) and Huelva (Spain) regions. Software was developed to assess the seismic safety of these schools, considering different earthquake scenarios. Seismic retrofitting measures were studied and numerically tested...
O sismo de 28 de fevereiro de 1969 foi o último sismo a provocar destruição no património edificado na região do Algarve. Contudo, não foi possível registar o nível de aceleração a que os edifícios foram sujeitos nessa região. Neste contexto, é de especial importância usar os efeitos dos sismos que são conhecidos para balizar qual terá sido o nível de aceleração a que os edifícios foram sujeitos, que é um impor...
The seismic assessment of existing school buildings is an important issue in earthquake prone regions; such is the case of the Algarve, which is the southern region of Portugal mainland. Having this problem in mind, the PERSISTAH project (Projetos de Escolas Resilientes aos SISmos no Território do Algarve e de Huelva, in Portuguese) aimed to develop a computational approach enabling the damage evaluation of a l...
These days, in hospital environment, reprocessing of Single-Use medical Devices (SUDs) is a practice used more and more often. Reprocessing of SUDs, in-house or by outsourcing, is a way for hospitals to produce cost savings and less quantity of waste. This review focuses on the evolution of SUDs reprocessing, as well as on the legislation and regulation associated, and discusses the potential risks involved. Hi...
Este trabalho desenvolve-se ao longo de várias fases, procurando-se ao longo delas fornecer o conjunto de informações que irá validar a proposta final. Assim, inicialmente procede-se à descrição do funcionamento do actual sistema de reabastecimento de bens de consumo corrente e correspondente diagnóstico, identifica-se os objectivos que um sistema deste tipo deve alcançar, para de seguida se fazer um levantamen...