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Exploring the Implementation of Health Impact Assessment in Portuguese Public H...

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a proactive, evidence-based approach that integrates health considerations into decision-making across sectors to prevent adverse effects and promote health equity. While global interest in HIA is growing, its implementation varies by country. In Portugal, despite existing legal frameworks and some previous capacity-building efforts, HIA is not fully institutionalized, and its ...

Health promotion and disease prevention registries in the EU: a cross country c...

Background: Health promotion and disease prevention programme registries (HPPRs), also called 'best practice portals', serve as entry points and practical repositories that provide decision-makers with easy access to (evidence-based) practices. However, there is limited knowledge of differences or overlaps of howe current national HPPRs in Europe function, the context and circumstances in which these HPPRs were...

Social prescribing (SP) as a community health promoting tool: lessons from a co...

Issue: Social Prescribing (SP) describes evidence-based interventions designed to improve health and wellbeing by referring individuals with non-medical, health-related social needs to health-promoting community-based support and services. Differences in national health systems, sociopolitical infrastructures and terminology, has however created a heterogeneity on SP practice and limited its implementation. Des...

Prescrição social e outras estratégias de promoção da saúde na comunidade: expe...

Implementation Gaps of the Portuguese Nacional Health Plan 2012 2021: Evidence ...

The National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA) is responsible for carrying out the evaluation of the Portuguese National Health Plan (PNS) 2012-2016, extended to 2020 (and later to 2021). As part of PNS evaluation, this study aims to identify gaps in the implementation of the PNS 2012-2021, and to identify the degree of alignment and coherence between the strategic axis, goals, and monitoring fram...

Reorientação do sistema de saúde para a promoção da saúde através da prescrição...

(...) A Prescrição Social concretiza e efetiva a ligação entre o SNS e todos estes agentes promotores da saúde na sociedade, conseguindo assim atuar nos determinantes sociais da saúde, que fora da esfera de atuação do Ministério da Saúde contribuem para 80% da saúde dos portugueses. Na prática, é um modelo que permite aos profissionais de saúde detetar em consulta situações de vulnerabilidade social ou necessid...

Museologia e Património Volume 3

Ensaios sobre Memória - Volume 1

Health Impact Assessment in Portugal

Sustainable integration of HIA in Portuguese public health system is needed. However, it still requires a common agreement within the health sector stakeholders to define the strategy on both policy and technical approache

Conhecimento e atitude face à redução gradual da quantidade de sal no pão: inqu...

O consumo de sal em excesso contribui para a doença cardiovascular. Em Portugal, a ingestão de sal excede os níveis recomendados pela Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS). O conhecimento e atitudes individuais relacionados com o consumo de sal podem influenciar a quantidade de sal consumida. Enquadrado num estudo-piloto em Health Impact Assessment (HIA), este trabalho pretendeu observar o conhecimento e atitudes ...