Background: Health planning is essential for effective public health interventions and optimal resource utilisation. The Portuguese Directorate-General of Health has a long history of developing health plans and programmes, for communicable and noncommunicable diseases, and their determinants. This study aimed to review the current 24 programmes and assess the adequacy of their structure and content. Methods: A...
Introdução: O novo coronavírus (SARS-CoV2), que resulta na infeção COVID-19, ameaçou os sistemas de saúde em todo o mundo, testando limites, desafiando capacidade de resposta, gerando ondas de choque com impacto colossal - Portugal não escapou à regra. A imposição de confinamento em meados de março de 2020, aliada ao receio da transmissão viral, conduziu a um decréscimo de afluência ao Serviço de Urgência (SU),...
The use of cinema as a mediator in therapeutic settings has been considered advantageous; however, few works have been published regarding this subject (Dermer & Hutchings, 2000; Egeci & Gencoz, 2017; Hesley & Hesley, 1998; Poltrum, 2009; Schulenberg, 2003; Wolz, 2005). The aim of this work was to explore the therapeutic potential of cinema, especially when applied to the treatment of substance use disorders, a...
INTRODUCTION: Psychiatric patients are at increased risk of death from a number of natural and unnatural causes. This study examines the mortality causes of all psychiatric inpatients of an acute psychiatric unit at a general hospital in Portugal for sixteen years (1998 to 2013). MATERIAL AND METHODS: Twenty-one inpatients died at the inpatient unit between 1998 and 2013 (average 1.3 per year). A retrospective ...