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MAMMALS IN PORTUGAL: A data set of terrestrial, volant, and marine mammal occur...
Grilo, Clara; Afonso, Beatriz C.; Afonso, Filipe; Alexandre, Marta; Aliácar, Sara; Almeida, Ana; Alonso, Ivan Prego; Álvares, Francisco; Alves, PauloMammals are threatened worldwide, with 26% of all species being included in the IUCN threatened categories. This overall pattern is primarily associated with habitat loss or degradation, and human persecution for terrestrial mam mals, and pollution, open net fishing, climate change, and prey depletion for marine mammals. Mammals play a key role in maintaining ecosystems func tionality and resilience, and theref...
MAMMALS IN PORTUGAL : A data set of terrestrial, volant, and marine mammal occu...
Grilo, Clara; Afonso, Beatriz C.; Afonso, Filipe; Alexandre, Marta; Aliácar, Sara; Almeida, Ana; Alonso, Ivan Prego; Álvares, Francisco; Alves, PauloMammals are threatened worldwide, with 26% of all species being includedin the IUCN threatened categories. This overall pattern is primarily associatedwith habitat loss or degradation, and human persecution for terrestrial mam-mals, and pollution, open net fishing, climate change, and prey depletion formarine mammals. Mammals play a key role in maintaining ecosystems func-tionality and resilience, and therefore...
MAMMALS in Portugal: A data set of terrestrial, volant, and marine mammal occur...
Grilo, Clara; Afonso, Beatriz C.; Afonso, Filipe; Alexandre, Marta; Aliácar, Sara; Almeida, Ana; Alonso, Ivan Prego; Álvares, Francisco; Alves, PauloMammals are threatened worldwide, with 26% of all species being includedin the IUCN threatened categories. This overall pattern is primarily associatedwith habitat loss or degradation, and human persecution for terrestrial mam-mals, and pollution, open net fishing, climate change, and prey depletion formarine mammals. Mammals play a key role in maintaining ecosystems func-tionality and resilience, and therefore...
Cost-Utility Analysis of Denosumab Versus Zoledronic Acid in the Treatment of P...
Bragança, Fátima Carvalho; Augusto, Margarida; Jesus, Gonçalo; Paquete, Ana Teresa Martins; Cristino, Joaquim; Pereira, JoãoIntroduction: Denosumab reduces the risk of osteoporosis fractures in post-menopausal women. Its cost and its added therapeutic value vs. zoledronic acid justify performing an economic evaluation in the Portuguese context. A societal perspective was adopted. Methods: A Markov model simulated the risk of osteoporosis fractures (hip, vertebrae, wrist and others) across patients’ lifetime, considering their clinic...
Blind Running: 25 Pictures Per Page
Neilson, Alison Laurie; Inocêncio, Andrea; São Marcos, Rita; Lacerda, Rodrigo; Simões, Maria; Andrade, Simone Longo de; Cantú, Rigel LazoThis experiential visual open work is built from a myriad of words, languages, cultures, and critical theories. . . . books and bombs, dance and record labels, mothers and daughters, small villages and islands, diaries and story, colonization and immigration, violence and healing, leaving and returning . . . wild animals It is a collaborative attempt to use untranslated images and untranslated embodied praxis t...
Carga e custo da fibrilhação auricular em Portugal
Gouveia, Miguel; Costa, João; Alarcão, Joana; Augusto, Margarida; Caldeira, Daniel; Pinheiro, Luís; Carneiro, António Vaz; Borges, MargaridaIntrodução e objetivos: A fibrilhação auricular é a disritmia persistente mais prevalente. Pretendemos estimar a carga e custos da doenc¸a atribuíveis à fibrilhac¸ão auricular em Portugal com base nas estatísticas demográficas e de saúde. Métodos: Utilizou-se informação sobre mortalidade por causa da OMS-Europa. Dados hospitalares foram provenientes da base de dados dos GDH. A carga da doença foi medida pelos D...
Burden of disease and cost of illness of atrial fibrillation in Portugal
Gouveia, Miguel; Costa, João; Alarcão, Joana; Augusto, Margarida; Caldeira, Daniel; Pinheiro, Luís; Carneiro, António Vaz; Borges, MargaridaIntroduction and Objectives: Atrial fibrillation is the most prevalent sustained arrhythmia. This paper estimates the burden and cost of illness attributable to atrial fibrillation in Portugal based on demographic and health statistics. Methods: Mortality data by cause of death came from the European Detailed Mortality Database of the World Health Organization (WHO). Hospital data were taken from the Portuguese...
Antidiabéticos orais e internamentos atribuíveis à diabetes em Portugal
Gouveia, Miguel; Laires, Pedro; Borges, Margarida; Augusto, Margarida; Martins, Ana PaulaIntrodução: O crescimento da despesa com antidiabéticos orais tem levado a preocupações questionando os ganhos de saúde e vantagens para o sistema de saúde gerados por esses medicamentos. Este estudo contribui para responder a estas questões.Material e Métodos: Numa primeira fase apresentam-se estimativas das três variáveis centrais a utilizar na análise: 1) a prevalência tratada da diabetes por ano e por regiã...
Antidiabetic Drugs and In-patient Admissions Attributable to Diabetes in Portugal
Gouveia, Miguel; Laires, Pedro; Borges, Margarida; Augusto, Margarida; Martins, Ana PaulaIntroduction: The growth of oral antidiabetic drugs spending has led to concerns questioning the health gains and benefits for the health system generated by these drugs. This study contributes to answering these questions. Material and Methods: Initially we present estimates of the three variables central to the analysis: 1) the prevalence of treated diabetes per year and health region, based on the consumptio...
Custos indirectos da dor crónica em Portugal
Gouveia, Miguel; Augusto, MargaridaNeste trabalho estimam-se os custos indirectos da dor crónica nas costas (lombalgia)e articulações seguindo a metodologia do capital humano. Mais especificamente são estimadas as perdas de produção por redução do emprego e acréscimo do absentismodevidos à dor crónica em Portugal Continental. A análise é feita do ponto de vista dasociedade, considerando a prevalência da dor crónica, numa abordagem bottom-up. Os ...