Funding Information: PORTHOS study arises from a scientific partnership between the Portuguese Society of Cardiology, AstraZeneca and NOVA Medical School. The authors are especially grateful to all the institutional partners that collaborated at various levels: Associação de Apoio aos Doentes com Insuficiência Cardíaca (AADIC), GlobalSports, Maria Design, Missão Continente (Sonae), Unilabs and GE. For the colla...
Funding Information: We would like to thank everyone who contributed to the study, namely the teams of participating hospitals who helped us to collect data: Centro Hospitalar Tâmega e Sousa (CHTS) – Maria da Anunciação Ruivo, MD; Centro Hospitalar Entre o Douro e Vouga (CHEDV) – Cristina Portal, MD; Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia e Espinho (CHVNG/E) – Fátima Lima, MD; Unidade Local de Saúde do Nordeste...
APP1155125. The present publication was funded by Funda??o Ci?ncia e Tecnologia, lP national support through CHRC (UIDP/04923/2020), and NOVA National School of Public Health ? NOVA University of Lisbon. Publisher Copyright: © Copyright © 2021 Dias, Gama, Maia, Marques, Campos Fernandes, Goes, Loureiro and Osborne.; The drivers of high prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCD) among migrants are well-docume...
Portugal has faced an economic and financial crisis that began circa FY2009 and whose effects are still ongoing. In FY2011, the Portuguese state and the European triumvirate – composed of the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund, and the European Central Bank – signed the Memoranda of Understanding. This troika agreement aimed to improve the operational efficiency of public services. This crisis...