Un acercamiento de los docentes de la carrera de trabajo social a la educación en valores / An approach of the teaching staff of the social work career to the education in values

Se realizó una investigación cualitativa durante 2014, que contempló a los 57 docentes de la carrera de trabajo social, pertenecientes a la Universidad "Eloy Alfaro" de la República de Ecuador, con vistas a realizar un diagnóstico para identificar el nivel de preparación cognoscitivo de los profesores sobre la educación en valores y, a partir de los resultados, implementar posteriormente una estrategia educativa, teniendo en cuenta que el carácter complejo, multifacético de la educación en valores exige del claustro de profesores una preparación especial.

A qualitative investigation was carried out during 2014 including the 57 members of the teaching staff from the social work career, belonging to "Eloy Alfaro" University at the Republic of Ecuador, with the aim of carrying out a diagnosis to identify the cognitive preparation level of the professors on the values education and, from the results obtained, to implement an educational strategy later on, keeping in mind that the complex and multifaceted character of the education in values demands a special preparation from the professor's board.

The Study on the Relationships Between Inhalation Volume and Exposure Duration and Biological Indices of Mercury among Workers Exposed to Mercury / 예방의학회지

This study was conducted to evaluate the relationships between the environmental exposure and biological monitoring among workers exposed to metallic mercury. We interviewed each workers to get the medical history including previous hazardous occupational history we measured the respiration rate and tidal volume of each worker in order to calculate the 8-hour inhaled mercury of workers. And we wanted to evaluate the effect of exposure duration to mercury concentrations in blood and urine as biologic exposure indices of metallic mercury. The regression and correlation analysis were done to the relationships of 8-hour inhaled mercury are mercury in blood and urine. The results were as follows; 1. The subjects were 35 fluorescent lamp manufacturing workers. The mean age of subjects was 24.8 years old, and the mean work careers of workers was 1.19 years. 89% of the total was consisted man. 2. The correlation coefficients between 8-hour inhaled mercury and mercury in blood and urine were higher than that of only considered air mercury concentration. 3. The correlation coefficients of 8-hour inhaled mercury and mercury in blood and urine were above 0.9 in workers who had exposed to mercury more than 1 year. 4. The R-square value and -value of regression analysis between the 8-hour inhaled mercury and mercury inn blood and urine was also higher in workers who had exposed to mercury over 1 year than in workers who had less than 1 year working experience. The important results or this study were that relationships between the 8hr-inhaled mercury and mercury in blood and urine was very high than that with air mercury concentration only. And the results were very apparent when considering workers 1 year or more. Therefore we concluded that the work career and respiratory volume of each individuals should be considered in evaluation the results of biological monitoring of workers exposed to metallic mercury.