© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.; BACKGROUND: We tested whether providing BCG vaccine to healthcare workers (HCWs) could reduce non-planned absenteeism and thereby reduce the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare systems in Africa. METHODS: We conducted a multicenter, single-blinded, placebo-controlled rando...
Funding Information: This research was funded by the Dean of Research and Graduate Studies at the Federal University of Alfenas, MG, No. 002/2020. We thank PhD Isabel Cristina Martins de Freitas for her methodological and statistical support. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 Centro Universitario Sao Camilo. All rights reserved.; The coronavirus disease pandemic greatly impacted society, creating unprecedented challe...
Funding Information: This research was financed by the Asylum, Integration and Migration Fund (ref.PT/2018/FAMI/350) under the Multianual Financial Framework 2014/20, by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) (ref.RESEARCH4COVID-19-065) and Global Health and Tropical Medicine (GHTM), Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (IHMT), NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal (ref.UID/04413/2020). ...
Supplement to the European Journal of Public Health which contains the abstracts of presentations at the 14th European Public Health (EPH) Conference «Public health futures in a changing world», held online 10-12 November 2021. Section: 1.G. Workshop: COVID-HL: A global survey on digital health literacy in university students during the pandemic; Background Worldwide there is an overwhelming amount of informati...
Introdução: Descrevemos a evolução da formação de técnicos de saúde (TdS) em Angola e verificamos que o Plano de Desenvolvimento de Recursos Humanos (PDRH) 1997-2007 teve um profundo impacto no desenvolvimento da formação da força de trabalho em saúde em Angola. Este artigo relata um estudo feito no âmbito da elaboração do segundo PDRH 2013-2025 tendo por objetivo obter dados comparáveis sobre o perfil dos estu...
Funding Information: This study was elaborated based on the work of first Miguelhete Lisboa?s doctoral program, a Funda??o Calouste Gulbenkian (FCG) scholarship holder (ID: P-135647/SBG/2014) and, used grants obtained from World Health Organization, The Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (WHO/TDR) and co-sponsored by the United Nations Children?s Fund, United Nations Development Pr...