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Monthly Analysis of Infant Mortality Rate in Portugal during the COVID-19 Pande...
Nogueira, Paulo Jorge; Camarinha, Catarina; Feteira-Santos, Rodrigo; Costa, Andreia Silva; Nobre, Miguel de Araújo; Nicolau, Leonor BacelarIntroduction: The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted global public health. Infant mortality rate (IMR), a vital statistic and key indicator of a population's overall health, is essential for developing effective health prevention programs. Existing evidence primarily indicates a decrease in IMR during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a national-level analysis to calculate IMR and describe its course ov...
Monthly Analysis of Infant Mortality Rate in Portugal during the COVID-19 Pande...
Nogueira, Paulo Jorge; Camarinha, Catarina; Feteira-Santos, Rodrigo; Silva Costa, Andreia; de-Araújo-Nobre, Miguel; Bacelar-Nicolau, LeonorIntroduction: The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted global public health. Infant mortality rate (IMR), a vital statistic and key indicator of a population’s overall health, is essential for developing effective health prevention programs. Existing evidence primarily indicates a decrease in IMR during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a national-level analysis to calculate IMR and describe its course ov...
Monthly analysis of infant mortality rate in Portugal during the COVID-19 pande...
Nogueira, Paulo Jorge; Camarinha, Catarina; Feteira-Santos, Rodrigo; Costa, Andreia; Nobre, Miguel de Araújo; Bacelar-Nicolau, Leonor; Furtado, CristinaIntroduction: The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted global public health. Infant mortality rate (IMR), a vital statistic and key indicator of a population's overall health, is essential for developing effective health prevention programs. Existing evidence primarily indicates a decrease in IMR during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a national-level analysis to calculate IMR and describe its course ov...
Monthly analysis of infant mortality rate in Portugal during the COVID-19 pande...
Nogueira, Paulo Jorge; Camarinha, Catarina; Feteira-Santos, Rodrigo; Costa, Andreia Silva; De-Araújo-Nobre, Miguel; Bacelar-Nicolau, LeonorIntroduction: The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted global public health. Infant mortality rate (IMR), a vital statistic and key indicator of a population’s overall health, is essential for developing effective health prevention programs. Existing evidence primarily indicates a decrease in IMR during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a national-level analysis to calculate IMR and describe its course ov...
Determinants associated with uncontrolled asthma in Portugal: a national popula...
Camarinha, Catarina; Fernandes, Milene; Alarcão, Violeta; Franco, João; Manaças, M. E.; Bárbara, Cristina; Nicola, PauloIntroduction and objectives: Asthma is a chronic and heterogeneous disease that affects people of all ages and has a high estimated increase in prevalence worldwide. Asthma control represents a main goal in the disease management. International studies revealed low levels of disease control resulting in a significant burden for healthcare systems, not only in terms of quality of life, but also in terms of healt...
Multimorbidity profile of COVID-19 deaths in Portugal during 2020
Nogueira, Paulo Jorge; Nobre, Miguel de Araújo; Elias, Cecília; Feteira-Santos, Rodrigo; Martinho, António C.-V.; Camarinha, CatarinaBackground: COVID-19 is caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection and has reached pandemic proportions. Since then, several clinical characteristics have been associated with poor outcomes. This study aimed to describe the morbidity profile of COVID-19 deaths in Portugal. Methods: A study was performed including deaths certificated in Portugal with "COVID-19" (ICD-10: U07.1 or U07.2) coded as the underlying cause of death...
Improving morbidity information in Portugal: evidence from data linkage of COVI...
Feteira-Santos, Rodrigo; Camarinha, Catarina; Nobre, Miguel de Araújo; Elias, Cecília; Bacelar-Nicolau, Leonor; Costa, Andreia; Furtado, CristinaBackground: COVID-19 rapidly spread around the world, putting health systems under unprecedented pressure and continuous adaptations. Well-established health information systems (HIS) are crucial in providing data to allow evidence-based policymaking and public health interventions in the pandemic response. This study aimed to compare morbidity information between two databases for COVID-19 management in Portug...
Multimorbidity profile of COVID-19 deaths in Portugal during 2020
Nogueira, Paulo Jorge; Nobre, Miguel de Araújo; Elias, Cecília; Feteira-Santos, Rodrigo; Martinho, António C. V.; Camarinha, CatarinaBackground: COVID-19 is caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection and has reached pandemic proportions. Since then, several clinical characteristics have been associated with poor outcomes. This study aimed to describe the morbidity profile of COVID-19 deaths in Portugal. Methods: A study was performed including deaths certificated in Portugal with “COVID-19” (ICD-10: U07.1 or U07.2) coded as the underlying cause of death...
COVID-19 in Portugal: a retrospective review of paediatric cases, hospital and ...
Elias, Cecilia; Feteira-Santos, Rodrigo; Camarinha, Catarina; Nobre, Miguel de Araújo; Costa, Andreia Silva; Bacelar-Nicolau, Leonor; Furtado, CristinaBackground COVID-19 is considered by WHO a pandemic with public health emergency repercussions. Children often develop a mild disease with good prognosis and the recognition of children at risk is essential to successfully manage paediatric COVID-19. Quality epidemiological surveillance data are required to characterise and assess the pandemic. Methods Data on all reported paediatric COVID-19 cases, in Portugal...
The Role of Health Preconditions on COVID-19 Deaths in Portugal: Evidence from ...
Nogueira, Paulo Jorge; de Araújo Nobre, Miguel; Costa, Andreia; Ribeiro, Ruy M.; Furtado, Cristina; Bacelar Nicolau, Leonor; Camarinha, CatarinaBackground: It is essential to study the effect of potential co-factors on the risk of death in patients infected by COVID-19. The identification of risk factors is important to allow more efficient public health and health services strategic interventions with a significant impact on deaths by COVID-19. This study aimed to identify factors associated with COVID-19 deaths in Portugal. Methods: A national datase...