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The modifying role of major cardiovascular risk factors in the association betw...

Background: Despite the actual demographic trends and the global burden of cardiovascular diseases, there is little knowledge concerning the effects of retirement on this health outcome. Objective: We aimed to quantify the associations between retirement, and retirement age, with cardiovascular disease (heart disease and stroke) in the Portuguese population. Methods: We used data from the first Portuguese wave ...

Motivations in the practice of physical exercise and the stages of student chan...

This study sought to analyze the relationships between motivational regulations, the stages of change and the frequency of nursing students’ exercise practice in both sexes. A cross-sectional, descriptive and explo-ratory study was carried with 535 students. The results indicated that: (a) 55.3% of students did not practice consistently and continuously; (b) 27.6% had a regular involvement in this practice for ...

Building a model to analyse and compare social policies on ageing

Demographic ageing results in issues both for individuals and for organizations, with regards to social, economic and health issues. The challenge for public policies is to create the adequate resources and to adapt devices, in order to facilitate and allow an ageing process with well-being. The WHO’s proposal of Active Ageing has a great potential in guiding ageing policies, in particular local interventions. ...

Aging Conditions of the Portuguese Population Aged 50 Years and Over

Population aging is a social issue, related to people’s living conditions and the way they grow older. Researchers, policy makers, and stakeholders are working together to find the best solutions to meet population needs as people age. Policies should consider the heterogeneity that is inherent in the aging process, the characteristics of its beneficiaries, and their life conditions. This study presents an anal...

Youth positive development: An exploratory study carried out with Portuguese st...

The objective of this study was to understand how Portuguese young people are located in relation to some parameters that have been associated with young people’s positive development. For this purpose, the model of the 5C’s was considered (Lerner et al., 2005), in particular regarding to its evaluation proposal. Nine hundred and seven Portuguese students of both genders and between the ages of 12 and 15 comple...

O envolvimento das empresas e dos seus trabalhadores em actividade de voluntariado

Intervenção social. - ISSN 0874-1611. - N. 25-26 (2002). - p. 141-155; Esta comunicação aborda a questão de voluntariado ou cidadania empresarial como conceito e contributo para a coesão social. Reportando-se à experiência europeia e portuguesa, o autor dá conta de diferentes estratégias de colaboração das empresas e dos seus trabalhadores em actividades de acção social com referência igualmente a diferentes ca...

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Impact of physical exercise on catechol-O-methyltransferase activity in depress...

A public health approach to health and retirement: What do we know about their ...

ABSTRACT - The exit from active life and the ingress into a life stage in which labour activities andrelations do not exist, or could be of a different nature, is a feature of retirement.Several studies have investigated the effects of changes in health upon retirement. Severalothers have investigated the effects of retirement on health. If retirement is responsible foraffecting health, then the implementation ...

A public health approach to health and retirement: what do we know about their ...

ABSTRACT - The exit from active life and the ingress into a life stage in which labour activities and relations do not exist, or could be of a different nature, is a feature of retirement. Several studies have investigated the effects of changes in health upon retirement. Several others have investigated the effects of retirement on health. If retirement is responsible for affecting health, then the implementat...