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Emergência e Desenvolvimento - duas realidades distintas.Consequências no terre...
Fonseca, Ana GlóriaEste pequeno texto baseia-se na minha experiência pessoal enquanto participante do projecto Querer e fazer, da Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, o qual acompanhei desde o seu início, enquanto aluna desta Faculdade. Vou abordar, muito especifcamente, uma acçao que o projecto desenvolveu em Cabo Delgado, a província mais setentrional de Moçambique, fazendo fronteira com a Tan...
Doing One Health! Using Participatory and Systems-Thinking Steps to Develop and...
McIntyre, K. Marie; Thomson, Deborah J.; Travis, Dominic; Boriani, Elena; Fonseca, Ana Glória; Unwin, SteveThis chapter describes the necessary thought processes to develop interventions to improve a health outcome using One Health approaches, considering how you will share and disseminate knowledge learned by communicating with colleagues and collaborators. Whilst developing acceptable and feasible interventions against problems needing a One Health solution, you work with your stakeholders, mapping out the systems...
Evaluation of One Health Initiatives
Chantziaras, Ilias; Pessoa, Joana; Meneghi, Daniele de; Aragrande, Maurizio; Fonseca, Ana Glória; Häsler, BarbaraThis chapter equips you with the tools to evaluate One Health initiatives that address health issues at the intersection of humans, animals and the environment. It emphasizes the importance of a systematic approach to assess these initiatives’ effectiveness and impact. The chapter uses the Theory of Change (ToC) as a framework for outlining how the initiative will achieve its goals. Stakeholder involvement is a...
Chronic Histiocytic Intervillositis: A Rare Cause of Placenta Mediated Obstetri...
Ferreira, Melanie; Fonseca, Ana Glória; Cunha, Vitória; Almeida, Maria Manuela; Santos, Antónia; Ilgenfritz, RaquelThe authors report a case of a 31-year-old woman, pregnantfor the third time, with a medical history of severe placentalmediated obstetrical complications, referred for exclusion ofa pro-thrombotic state. Thrombophilia testing was negative,however isolated alkaline phosphates elevation (10 times superiorto the upper reference limit) was detected. Alkalinephosphatase elevation that does not surpass twice the upp...
Characterizing human cysticercosis in Portugal 2006-2013
Vilhena, Manuela; Fonseca, Ana Glória; Marques da Silva, José Rafael; Dias, Sara; Torgal, JorgeCysticercosis results from the ingestion Taenia solium eggs directly by faecal-oral route or contaminated food or water. While, still considered a leading cause of acquired epilepsy in developed countries, this zoonosis has been controlled or eradicated in industrialized countries due to significant improvements in sanitation, pig rearing and slaughterhouse control systems. We developed a retrospective study on...
Human cysticercosis in Portugal: long gone or still contemporary?
Vilhena, Manuela; Fonseca, Ana Glória; Dias, Sara; Marques da Silva, José Rafael; Torgal, JorgeCysticercosis, a leading cause of acquired epilepsy in developing countries, has been controlled or eradicated in industrialized countries. This paradigm has recently been challenged, with human neurocysticercosis (NCC) being increasingly diagnosed in these countries. In order to assess the NCC burden in Portugal, a retrospective study on NCC hospitalizations (2006–2013) was conducted based on the national data...
Portuguese expatriates’ health in Angola and Mozambique—a cross-sectional study...
Fonseca, Ana Glória; Dias, Sara S.; Baptista, João Luis; Torgal, JorgeBackground: Increasing numbers of expatriates are working in sub-Saharan Africa. There is little published data on the complex population and this survey aimed at understanding expatriate morbidity by accessing self-reported health problems and malaria preventive practices. Methods: A cross-sectional web-based survey was conducted targeting Portuguese expatriates in Angola and Mozambique. Logistic regression an...
Surveillance of imported hospital requiring malaria in Portugal: can it be impr...
Fonseca, Ana Glória; Dias, Sara; Baptista, João Luís; Torgal, JorgeAlthough eradicated in Portugal, malaria keeps taking its toll on travellers and migrants from endemic countries. Completeness of hospital requiring malaria notification in Portugal 2000–11 was estimated, using two-source capture–recapture method. Data sources were: national surveillance database of notifiable diseases and the national database of the Diagnosis-Related Groups resulting from National Health Serv...
CUTANEOUS LEUKOCYTOCLASTIC VASCULITIS INDUCED BY PROPYLTHIOURACIL
Matos, Diogo; Barreiros, Hugo; Coelho, Ricardo; Bártolo, Elvira; Fonseca, Ana Glória; Cunha, VitóriaPropylthiouracil (PTU) is widely used in the treatment of Hyperthyroidism. Usually well tolerated, it is though associated with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) and, less frequently, with late-onset ANCA positive vasculitis. The authors describe the clinical case of a 45-year-old female patient with Graves’ disease for which she was being treated with PTU since 3 years before, who developed an ANCA-...
Hereditary Thrombophilia and Pregnancy: Thrombotic Risk and Pregnancy Outcome
Fonseca, Ana GlóriaThromboembolic disease and obstetric complications related to ischemia of the placenta are currently the major causes of maternalmortality and morbidity. Thrombophilia been implicated in their aetiology and the magnitude of the risk depends on the type of thrombophilia.As the evidence is still unclear and controversial, questions about the clinical management of pregnant women with thrombophiliaare a daily issu...