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Urban Transitions and Dynamics: Cultural, Ecological, Digital and Degrowth

Urban Transitions and Dynamics: Cultural, Ecological, Digital and Degrowth

Prevalence of Dementia and Cognitive Decline in Portuguese Residential Care Hom...

Introduction: Dementia is one of the leading causes of dependency among older people and poses a critical challenge for long-term care systems. Despite the importance of the issue, national data on the prevalence of dementia in residential care homes remain limited.Methods: A cross-sectional, observational, and institution-based study was conducted within the framework of the SINDIA project. The study was based...

Reimagining Urban Futures: Perspectives on Cultural, Environmental and Digital ...

Reimagining Urban Futures: Perspectives on Cultural, Environmental and Digital Transitions

Reimagining Urban Futures: Perspectives on Cultural, Environmental and Digital ...

Reimagining Urban Futures: Perspectives on Cultural, Environmental and Digital Transitions

Reimagining Urban Futures: Perspectives on Cultural, Environmental and Digital ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: A Decade of Assistential Activity at Centro Hospital...

Introduction: Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) is the most frequent of human prion diseases, with an estimated incidence of 1 case per million / habitants per year. Clinical manifestations include multidomain cognitive impairment with pyramidal, extrapyramidal and/or cerebellar signs. It is a rapidly progressive and fatal disease. Our aim was to do a sociodemographic, clinical and progression evaluatio...

The influence of the Great Recession on perinatal health-an ecological study on...

Background Few studies examine the relationship between socioeconomic factors and trends in mortality in highincome European countries. Due to the lack of regional-level data, most recent studies on social inequality in Portugal do not investigate regional differences. This study analyses time trends and regional disparities in the evolution of perinatal mortality (PMR) and infant mortality (IMR) associated wit...

Seroepidemiology study of Cytomegalovirus and Rubella in pregnant women in Luan...

Background: Both CMV and Rubella virus infections are associated with the risk of vertical transmission, fetal death or congenital malformations. In Angola, there are no reports of CMV and Rubella studies. Therefore, our objectives were to study the seroprevalence of anti-CMV and anti-Rubella antibodies in pregnant women of Luanda (Angola), identify the risk of primary infection during pregnancy and evaluate th...

Unhealthy lifestyles, environment, well-being and health capability in rural ne...

Background: Non-communicable diseases are a leading cause of health loss worldwide, in part due to unhealthy lifestyles. Metabolic-based diseases are rising with an unhealthy body-mass index (BMI) in rural areas as the main risk factor in adults, which may be amplified by wider determinants of health. Changes in rural environments reflect the need of better understanding the factors affecting the self-ability f...

Evaluation of the drinking water quality surveillance system in the metropolita...

The present work evaluated the surveillance of the drinking water quality information system database and correlated the findings of the microbiological analysis with the distribution of intestinal protozoa from the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro. From the database, we obtained 1,654 georeferenced monitoring stations that were used in the analysis. The results indicate that the minimum number of samples ...