This article describes the development, implementation and evaluation of an international course dedicated to the involvement of the scientific community with society in the production of knowledge related to the processes of social determination of health / health promotion. The international course was carried out within the scope of the “Plataforma de Saberes” research project based at the Oswaldo Cruz Found...
Despite the recent efforts of the United Nations in the enactment of global partnerships for development, at the moment there are no concrete tools to assess the dynamics of international research partnerships in the health domain. The Research Fairness Initiative (RFI) aims at filling this gap, and in order to do so it collected a wide range of documents and practices which constitute an evidence base on the b...
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In November 1986, a research meeting took place in Oporto which dealt with the regional specificity of the «house» (casa) of northwestern Portugal. In order to produce an integrated picture of the «house» as a social, symbolical and physical unit, it was felt that a deepening of contact between specialists in divers fields of knowledge was required. In his introductory text, João de Pina Cabral suggests the con...