This article aims to highlight the partnership between the municipality of Loures and the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the mainfield of history and culture in order to promote the knowledge and research about the life and work of António Carvalho de Figueiredo, MD (1853-1917). First health subdelegate of the new municipality of Loures (created in 1886) and a man of science, pioneer in Malaria a...
The museum of the Portuguese Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine houses some scale models of medical facilities built in Mozambique in the first half of the 20th century in small villages to serve the indigenous population. Those facilities were intended as part of a network of medical assistance designed by the physician Francisco Ferreira dos Santos in the early 1920s that should cover the whole provin...
This paper results from the initiative taken by the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine of Lisbon, IHMT (institution representing today the first school of Portuguese Tropical Medicine, founded in Lisbon in 1902) in 2013, promoting the 2nd National Congress of Tropical Medicine, in memory of the 1st congress occurred 61 years before. It aims to analyse the motivations which conducted to the 1st National ...
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The authors assess the contributions of Portugal to the development of health systems in the Portuguese African empire until the early 20th century. The marine medicine, the support of health facilities in mainland Africa and the interventions of the Misericórdias are touched upon. Only after the French Revolution, the independence of Brazil and the liberal war in Portugal, under the pressure of the English Ult...
With short notes, is mentioned the medical history of the leprosy. A special focus is given to the leprosy in Portugal, to the old leprosery of Santana, in Lisbon, converted after in the Hospital of São Lázaro (HCL group) and to the Hospital- Colony of Rovisco Pais.; Em breves notas traça-se o percurso histórico da lepra, desde os tempos mais remotos até à atualidade. Fazem-se particulares referências dentro da...
In recent years the development and improvement of new models and methods of teaching and research using technological communication tools stimulates the flow and improves the quality of information and the sharing of networking experience. In this scenario, educational and research institutions have invested in involving their researchers in international exchange programs, enabling the formation of research g...