This paper focuses on the case study of Escola Oficina (EO), a non-profit, socially-oriented organization that supports unemployed citizens by offering training and employability in the fields of sewing and cartonboard making, with an emphasis on circular economy and environmental sustainability. Although EO is successful in training and integrating their trainees into the job market, it faces external commu-ni...
ABSTRACT: This study departs from the acknowledged absence of validated measures to assess social and emotional competencies in incarcerated individuals. This is a critical gap given that most available programs aimed at fostering prosocial behavior and reducing antisocial behaviors are theoretically based on enhancing these competencies. This study assessed the psychometric properties of the Social and Emotion...
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 ...
Francisco Cambournac was a Portuguese malariologist and epidemiologist and a prominent figure on the international stage in the field of malaria and Tropical Medicine research, in the 20th Century. From this internationalization, the position Cambournac assumed in the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), namely as Diretor of the Regional African Office between 1954 and 1964, should be highlighted. Crossing Cambo...