https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/5497 Wed, 20 May 2026 04:44:36 GMT 2026-05-20T04:44:36Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48699 Title: Mães trabalhadoras em hospital de ensino: readaptação funcional na gestação e lactação Abstract: Work in a hospital environment is permeated by numerous health risks. In the case of pregnant or lactating women, ergonomic, physical, chemical, biological, and psychosocial risks can cause irreparable harm to maternal and infant health. Therefore, Brazilian legislation guarantees temporary job security from the confirmation of pregnancy until five months after childbirth, and removal from hazardous work without loss of salary. The general objective of this study was to analyze how female workers in a teaching hospital undergoing functional readaptation due to pregnancy and/or lactation have experienced these functional changes. This is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach, conducted in a hospital in the Southeast region of Brazil. Participants included pregnant and lactating healthcare professionals reassigned from hazardous activities and workers responsible for monitoring the functional readaptation process. Data collection was carried out using a socioeconomic characterization form and semi-structured interviews. Thematic content analysis resulted in three categories: Working women's rights; job reassignment process; health monitoring; and motherhood. The results showed that motherhood associated with hospital work is permeated by emotional ambivalence, psychological suffering, and difficulties in reconciling caregiving, breastfeeding, and professional performance. It was found that the workers' knowledge of their rights is focused on issues related to salary, maternity leave, and breastfeeding, and that there are weaknesses in the provision of institutional guidance and in the articulation between the fields of health and work. Job reassignment, although necessary for the protection of maternal and child health, was frequently limited to measures for managing environmental risk, especially changes in the workplace and caregiving functions, with predominantly reactive monitoring dependent on immediate supervisors. It is concluded that strengthening institutional policies, implementing continuous monitoring protocols, and systematic educational actions are fundamental to guaranteeing the realization of rights and promoting the health of pregnant and breastfeeding women in the hospital environment. Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48699 2026-02-27T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48653 Title: A atuação do Programa Minha Casa, Minha Vida na produção do espaço urbano: nas franjas do setor oeste de Uberlândia - MG Abstract: This Master’s degree dissertation addresses the production of urban space through housing policy, examining the implementation of the “Programa Minha Casa, Minha Vida” on the borders of the west sector of Uberlândia and investigating how the program’s implementation contributes to the reproduction of sociospatial inequalities and to the consolidation of specific patterns of urban expansion. Its central objective is to analyze the factors that determined the western sector of the city as the primary vector of urban expansion for the implementation of social housing within the municipality. To this end, it adopts a qualitative approach grounded in theoretical review on capitalist urbanization and social housing, documentary and normative analysis, collection and interpretation of secondary data, as well as cartographic and spatial examination of the housing developments under study. The results demonstrate that the implementation of the program in the city not only responds to housing demands but is primarily articulated with land and real estate interests that guide the peripheral location of developments. The analysis shows that the territorial distribution of housing units occurs in areas distant from urban facilities and infrastructure, increasing the social costs of mobility and reinforcing processes of segregation. It also identifies a mismatch between the existence of vacant properties and the persistence of the housing deficit, indicating structural limits of the policy as an instrument for addressing the housing issue. By examining urban planning instruments and their concrete application, the study reveals low regulatory effectiveness in the face of land valorization dynamics and the political-economic networks that induce locational decisions. The conclusion is that the program acts as an active agent in the production of urban space, contributing to peripheral expansion and to reproduce inequalities, while reaffirming the centrality of the market in guiding housing policy. The dissertation thus offers a critical reading of the articulation between state, market, and territory, inviting reflection on the limits and possibilities of public housing policies in confronting contemporary urban contradictions. Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48653 2026-03-18T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48602 Title: Entre a unidade e a fragmentação: a dicotomia Geografia Física e Geografia Humana Abstract: This thesis analyzes the fragmentation between Physical Geography and Human Geography as an expression of modern rationality and examines its impacts on the constitution of geographic knowledge. The central concern of the study is to investigate whether the Physical–Human dichotomy has the potential to undermine Geography’s specificity as a scientific field. Authors such as Wooldridge and East (1967), Mendonça (1998), Suertegaray (2001), Lacoste (2011), and Souza (2024) highlight the harmful effects of fragmentation on Geography, pointing to the epistemological difficulties this process has generated for both geographic thought and practice. Based on these premises, the objective of this research is to analyze the causes and consequences of fragmentation within Geography, with particular emphasis on the Physical versus Human dichotomy. Methodologically, the study is grounded in a theoretical and conceptual literature review. The analyses developed throughout the dissertation support the argument that the dichotomous fragmentation between Physical Geography and Human Geography constitutes an epistemological problem, compromising Geography’s specificity as a science oriented toward the understanding of relations. It is concluded that this division is not merely organizational or institutional, but rather expresses a legacy of modern fragmentary rationality, further reinforced by internal dynamics within the geographic field itself. In this sense, the study argues for the necessity of overcoming this dichotomy through the affirmation of a unity constructed within diversity, capable of preserving analytical plurality without undermining the epistemological coherence of Geography. Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48602 2026-02-25T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48587 Title: Paisagens e solos do Pantanal do Salobra– MS Abstract: The present study aims to identify the geoenvironments of the floodplain of the Salobra River and to characterize the physical, chemical, mineralogical, and morphological properties of the soils formed in this region, derived from carbonate materials of the Corumbá Group, transported by the river from its headwaters in the Bodoquena Plateau. The study area comprises the lower course of the Salobra River sub-basin, located within the geomorphological unit of the Northern Bodoquena Depression, referred to in this study as the Salobra Pantanal. Ten soil profiles were described and sampled, and five geoenvironments were identified, organized into two landscape compartments: (1) slightly flood-prone areas, represented by continuous and fragmented units, including terraces and forested mounds (capões); and (2) highly flood-prone areas, represented by bays, corixos (secondary channels), and the depositional plain of the Salobra River. Most soils exhibit dark surface horizons and subsurface horizons with grayish tones. Soil pH in H₂O ranged from 6.28 to 8.84 (mean 8.06), indicating predominantly neutral to alkaline reactions. Physical analysis revealed a predominance of clay in the slightly flood-prone geoenvironments, although high clay contents were also observed in seasonally flooded areas, with variations in sand and silt proportions. A notable feature is the presence of gastropod shell fragments, especially in soils from the lower-lying areas. Calcium carbonate equivalent showed high concentrations, reaching up to 900 g/kg in certain horizons. The results highlight the strong influence of the carbonate rocks of the Corumbá Group on the genesis of soils in the Salobra River floodplain, controlling their morphology, chemical composition, and mineralogy. Total oxide contents revealed the predominance of SiO₂, Al₂O₃, and Fe₂O₃, as well as significant variations in CaO among geoenvironments, evidencing the contrast between silicate and carbonate components and the strong control exerted by the parent material on the mineralogical organization of the soils. These characteristics, together with fluvial dynamics, confer specificity to the landscape and have direct implications for understanding pedogenesis. Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48587 2026-02-27T00:00:00Z