Background: Conversational agents, which we defined as computer programs that are designed to simulate two-way human conversation by using language and are potentially supplemented with nonlanguage modalities, offer promising avenues for health interventions for different populations across the life course. There is a lack of open-access and user-friendly resources for identifying research trends and gaps and p...
In Portugal the Governmental framework for self-medication considers the use of non-prescription medicines to relieve minor illnesses only, although there is an international trend for extending it to long-term conditions.Medicines available as non-prescription in countries with similar United Nations Human Development Index are still classified as prescription-only in Portugal. The experiences of developed cou...