Association Between Occupational Stress, Work Shift and Health Outcomes in Hospital Workers of the Recôncavo of Bahia, Brazil: The Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic.

The aim of this study was to ascertain the level of occupational stress before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, how it changed, and its association with health outcomes of hospital workers in the Recôncavo of Bahia, Brazil. A longitudinal study was conducted with 218 hospital workers over 18 years old. A semi-structured questionnaire was used for collecting sociodemographic, occupational, lifestyle, anthropometric, and health data. The main exposures were occupational stress, assessed through Job Content Questionnaire and classified according to the Demand-Control Model and reported shift work. Health outcomes considered were nutritional status assessed by Body Mass Index (BMI), Waist Circumference (WC), and Body Fat Percentage (BF%); health self-perception; and cardiovascular risk factors. We used McNemar chi-squared or Wilcoxon tests to compare levels of exposure and outcome variables before and during the pandemic, and odds ratios to evaluate associations between changes in occupational stress and shiftwork with health outcomes. During the pandemic, participants reported increased occupational stress and shift work, lower self-perceived health, and had higher BMI and cardiovascular risk factors, compared with before the pandemic. No association was observed between change in occupational stress and health outcomes. However, increased amount of shift work was related to increased BMI in the overall sample (OR 3.79, CI95% 1.40-10.30), and in health workers (OR 11.56; CI95% 2.57-52.00). These findings support calls to strengthen labour policies to ensure adequate working conditions for hospital workers in context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Maternity in times of the Covid-19 pandemic: what mothers admitted in a reference hospital have to tell us

The Covid-19 pandemic has affected all aspects of our lives. Women in the perinatal period have unique needs, demanding health and safety guidelines regarding the risks associated to social isolation. The objective was to know the women's experience during pregnancy or puerperium in the pandemic while being cared at a hospital. Qualitative study referenced on concepts of integrality of care and daily life. Eighteen pregnant and postpartum participated. Three themes emerged: Repercussions on pregnancy and puerperium, repercussions on practical life, and coping strategies created by women. The reports reveal different repercussions of the pandemic in the lives of women and their families, also the strategies and precautions used to mitigate its adverse effects. We suggest directing preventive measures and public health policies to prioritize pregnant and postpartum women, recognizing and embracing subjective issues involved at this moment in women's lives. Copyright © 2022, Fundacao UNI Botucatu/UNESP. All rights reserved.

Connective life. Digital networks as sociotechnical mirrors of Ibero-America

Connective life has accelerated since 2020, when the covid-19 pandemic began, which contributed to intensify some digitization processes that have been underway for decades. This connective life also presents new challenges, such as surveillance capitalism, the attention economy, and contingent intellects, formed by powerful persuasive algorithms. In this context, the 147th edition of Chasqui is proposed as an Ibero-American transnational digital culture observatory. To do this, we have selected 10 articles that reveal significant networks, and in which user behaviors are studied;Ibero-American habits, uses and customs are mapped on social networks;Forms of organization in the consumption, production and circulation of content are described;techniques and content used to manipulate information and opinion are analyzed;describe and identify themselves in ways of spreading false news and hate speech;and new theoretical proposals are presented to understand Latin America through the analysis and reading of fields such as big data, machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, algorithms, or data analysis and visualization systems.

NOT EVEN DEATH UNITES US: THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY IN POST-COVID-19

This text intends to shift the centrality of the debate about COVID-19 to the human condition post-pandemic. We use the concept of imitation as an axis (Tarde, 1978), in addition to other authors who contribute to the reflection on the "tragedies" generated by the new Coronavirus, based on the climate of insecurity and fear established in humanity and the economy. We propose a theoretical essay in which we use resources from the "sociological imagination", in the sense of prospecting the inversion of the established order and we present nine different and correlated arguments, as an analysis of the possible panorama that offers a hope in the context of use the direct and pronoun transitive verb "to hope", of political action, of longing, of seeking and contrary to the act of waiting.

Risks, dilemmas and opportunities: Journalistic activities during the covid-19

This work deals with the role of journalism during the SARS-COV.2 (Covid-19) pandemic, in 2020. In this unique context, in which journalists and the media in general had a leading role, we reflect on the journalistic field (Bourdieu, 1992) relating it to a constructivist notion of reality (Berger & Luckmann, 1999). However, we use the notions of post-truth and "fake news" to demonstrate two of the main lines of force that today involve the media in general, as well as to expose a case analysis about institutions such as the World Health Organization and the European Commission. The objective was to address the problems of disinformation and "infodemia" (Zarocostas, 2020), which occupy the information gaps on the internet. The method used was mixed. In the quantitative dimension, we resorted to the application of a survey with a sample of 365 people, among journalists in the press, in the media in general and in recurring news consumers, about production processes, work routines, information generated during quarantine and news consumption in confinement time. In the qualitative dimension, we resort to the description of cases that demonstrate the presence of the phenomenon of post-truth and "fake news" in times of pandemic and how it affected social behavior. The results of this analysis point to the need to review certain productive practices in the journalistic field, which accentuate information gaps, in addition to practices that encourage professional insecurity. We note that there is a lack of critical stance between the press and official institutions, whose speeches, when erratic, can make it difficult for the public to perceive the difference between "fake news" and provisional news truths during the coverage of the pandemic. It is also concluded that there is a constant need for self-assessment of the failures of the professional field. © 2020 Universidade da Beira Interior. All rights reserved.