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Monthly tracking of infant mortality in Portugal: post-COVID trends
Nogueira, P.; Elias, C.; Camarinha, C.; de-Araujo-Nobre, M.; Bacelar-Nicolau, L.; Furtado, C.; Oliveira, M. M.; Costa, A. S.Background: The Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) is a fundamental health indicator that reflects the overall well-being of populations. Recognizing the need for more timely data to inform public health strategies, the authors have presented a novel method for monitoring IMR monthly instead of traditional annual reporting. Our work aims to increase further the robustness of a novel method for monitoring IMR monthly. ...
Social prescribing for older adults in mainland Portugal: Perceptions and futur...
Costa, A. S.; Henriques, J.; Alarcão, V.; Madeira, T.; Virgolino, A.; Henriques, A.; Feteira-Santos, R.; Polley, M.; Arriaga, M.; Nogueira, P.Background In order to address health inequalities, which have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and promote older adults’ quality of life, it is necessary to explore non-medical approaches such as social prescribing. Social prescribing is a person-centered approach that allows health professionals to refer patients to services provided by the social and community sectors. This study aimed to explore o...
Health literacy among older adults in Portugal and associated sociodemographic,...
Costa, A. S.; Feteira-Santos, R.; Alarcão, V.; Henriques, H.; Madeira, T.; Virgolino, A.; Arriaga, M.; Nogueira, P. J.Although the health literacy level of the general population was described recently, little is known about its specific levels among older adults in Portugal. Therefore, this cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the levels of health literacy demonstrated by older adults in Portugal and explore associated factors. Using a randomly generated list of telephone numbers, adults aged 65 years or more living in ...
Reducing sexual and reproductive health inequities between natives and migrants...
Candeias, P.; Alarcão, V.; Stefanovska-Petkovska, M.; Santos, O.; Virgolino, A.; Pintassilgo, S.; Pascoal, P. M.; Costa, A. S.; Machado, F.L.The increasing number of international migrants (ranging from 153 million in 1990 to ∼272 million in 2019) brought to attention the wide variation of national contexts concerning the policy measures to protect migrants’ rights and ensuring their equal access to basic and essential services, namely in health. Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) is a key component to the overall health and quality of life and is...
Intersections of immigration and sexual/reproductive health: An umbrella litera...
Alarcão, V.; Stefanovska-Petkovska, M.; Virgolino, A.; Santos, O.; Costa, A. S.Identifying the opportunities and barriers of promoting and fulfilling the sexual health rights of migrants remains a challenge that requires systematic assessment. Such an assessment would include estimating the influence of acculturation processes on sexual and reproductive health, and mapping intersectional inequities that influence migrants’ sexual and reproductive health in comparison with the native popul...
Looking ahead: Health impact assessment of front-of-pack nutrition labelling sc...
Feteira-Santos, R.; Alarcão, V.; Santos, O.; Virgolino, A.; Fernandes, J.; Pacheco Vieira, C.; Gregório, M. J.; Nogueira, P.; Costa, A. S.; Graça, P.This study aimed to describe the underlying process, used methods and major recommendations emerging from a comprehensive and prospective health impact assessment of the endorsement of a front-of-pack nutrition labelling (FOP-NL) system by the Portuguese health authorities. A mixed-methods approach was used to gather information on the impact of four FOP-NL schemes on consumers’ selection of food products accor...
Effectiveness of social prescribing programs in the primary health-care context...
Costa, A. S.; Sousa, C. J.; Seabra, P.; Virgolino, A.; Santos, O.; Lopes, J.; Henriques, A.; Nogueira, P.; Alarcão, V.Social prescribing (SP) is an approach that promotes the use of local non-clinical activities by people. The referral is usually made by primary health-care professionals, in a process wherein local providers play a pivotal role. The main objective of this study was to identify domains of intervention and evidence about the effectiveness of SP programs regarding health-related outcomes. A systematic literature ...
Distinguishing mild cognitive impairment from healthy aging and alzheimer’s dis...
Moreira, H. S.; Costa, A. S.; Machado, Á; Castro, S. L.; Lima, C. F.; Vicente, S. G.Executive functions are affected differently in healthy aging, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's Disease (AD), and evaluating them is important for differential diagnosis. The INECO Frontal Screening (IFS) is a brief neuropsychological screening tool, developed to assess executive dysfunction in neurodegenerative disorders. Goals: We aimed to examine whether and how MCI patients can be differentia...
Assessing executive dysfunction in neurodegenerative disorders: a critical revi...
Moreira, H. S.; Costa, A. S.; Castro, S. L.; Lima, C. F.; Vicente, S. G.Executive function (EF) has been defined as a multifaceted construct that involves a variety of high-level cognitive abilities such as planning, working memory, mental flexibility, and inhibition. Being able to identify deficits in EF is important for the diagnosis and monitoring of several neurodegenerative disorders, and thus their assessment is a topic of much debate. In particular, there has been a growing ...
Necrose das folhas da batatinha, causada por toxina de afídios
Costa, A. S.; Carvalho, Ana Maria B.; Costa, Cláudio LúcioObservations made in potato fields for manv vears have shown that there is a type of vein necrosis associated with the infestation of the plants with high populations of aphids. In insectary experiments, potato plants of several varieties were infested separately with non-viruliferous aphids of three species, Myzus persicae, Macrosiphum solanifolii, and Aphis gossypii. The results showed that the first two spec...