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Early childhood development strategy for the world’s children with disabilities

Early childhood is foundational for optimal and inclusive lifelong learning, health and well-being. Young children with disabilities face substantial risks of sub-optimal early childhood development (ECD), requiring targeted support to ensure equitable access to lifelong learning opportunities, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Although the Sustainable Development Goals, 2015–2030 (SDGs) emphasise...

Effectiveness of synchronous non-class education in higher health education

Background: the SARS-COV2 pandemic has conditioned the functioning of Higher Education Institutions, leading to the adoption of measures to ensure the teaching process, until then face-to-face, towards a synchronous non-face-to-face teaching typology. Objective: to evaluate the effectiveness of synchronous remote teaching in higher health education in response to the pandemic, from the student's perspective, an...

We need play-focused training!

Development of a postgraduate programme on play

On the academic year 22.23 the post-Graduate programme on “Play” started with a cohort of 16 students, composed of occupational therapy practitioners who range between 30 to 2 years of professional experience leading to an average of 13 years of clinical practice. Their working environment ranges within community, hospital and private practice settings. Nonetheless the programme planning and set up started in t...

Sustainable Development Goals summit 2023 and the global pledge on disability-f...

Correlation between physical markers and psychiatric health in a Portuguese sys...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease that affects a large number of people throughout the world. Anxiety, depression and fatigue are common symptoms of SLE that substantially contribute to decreased quality of life. This study investigates the interplay between physical and psychiatric manifestations of lupus. To this end, an SLE patient cohort was examined for correlations between...

Intervenção do fisioterapeuta na área da saúde da mulher, com ênfase no tratame...

A conceptual model to approach the scaling process of social entreprises- the c...

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics; The positive results of the past two years and the strong desire to expand social impact led the co-founders of the social takeaway Cozinha com Alma (CcA) to start planning the organization’s scaling strategy. Considering the complexities and challenges of the s...