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Health beliefs and attitudes toward Influenza and COVID-19 vaccination in Portugal
Santos, Ana João; Kislaya, Irina; Matias-Dias, Carlos; Machado, AusendaFunding Information: The author(s) declare that no financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2024 Santos, Kislaya, Matias-Dias and Machado.; Introduction: Vaccination is one of the most effective population strategies to prevent infectious diseases and mitigate pandemics, and it is important to understand vaccine uptake dete...
COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness among healthcare workers
Gaio, Vânia; Santos, Ana João; Amaral, Palmira; Faro Viana, João; Antunes, Isabel; Pacheco, Vânia; Paiva, Artur; Pinto Leite, PedroPublisher Copyright: © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.; OBJECTIVES: Healthcare workers (HCWs) were the first to be prioritised for COVID-19 vaccination. This study aims to estimate the COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness (VE) against SARS-CoV-2 symptomatic infection among HCWs in Portuguese hospitals. DESIGN: ...
Comparative complete scheme and booster effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in p...
Kislaya, Irina; Peralta-Santos, André; Borges, Vítor; Vieira, Luís; Sousa, Carlos; Ferreira, Bibiana; Pelerito, Ana; Gomes, João PauloFunding Information: The acquisition of sequencing equipment and reagents used in this study by the Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge was partially funded by the HERA project (grant no. 2021/PHF/23776), supported by the European Commission through the European Centre for Disease Control, and also partially funded by the Genome PT project (grant no. POCI‐01‐0145‐FEDER‐022184), supported by COMPETE...
Monitoring COVID-19 and influenza
Torres, Ana Rita; Gómez, Verónica; Kislaya, Irina; Rodrigues, Ana Paula; Fernandes Tavares, Margarida; Pereira, Ana Catarina; Pereira, DéboraPublisher Copyright: Copyright © 2023 Ana Rita Torres et al.; Background. Severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) surveillance is recommended to assess the severity of respiratory infections disease. In 2021, the National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge, in collaboration with two general hospitals, implemented a SARI sentinel surveillance system based on electronic health registries. We describe its...
Impact of lifting mask mandates on COVID-19 incidence and mortality in Portugal
Torres, Ana Rita; Silva, Susana; Kislaya, Irina; Nunes, Baltazar; Barreto, Marta; Machado, Ausenda; Rodrigues, Ana PaulaPublisher Copyright: © 2023 CELOM. All rights reserved.; Introduction: The use of face masks in public was one of several COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions adopted to mitigate the pandemic in Portugal. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of lifting the mask mandate on the April 22, 2022 on COVID-19 incidence and mortality in mainland Portugal and in the Azores. As a secondary objective, we ...
Estudo de Prevalência de Insuficiência Cardíaca em Portugal (PORTHOS), fundamen...
Baptista, Rui; Silva Cardoso, José; Canhão, Helena; Maria Rodrigues, Ana; Kislaya, Irina; Franco, Fátima; Bernardo, Filipa; Pimenta, JoanaFunding Information: PORTHOS study arises from a scientific partnership between the Portuguese Society of Cardiology, AstraZeneca and NOVA Medical School. The authors are especially grateful to all the institutional partners that collaborated at various levels: Associação de Apoio aos Doentes com Insuficiência Cardíaca (AADIC), GlobalSports, Maria Design, Missão Continente (Sonae), Unilabs and GE. For the colla...
COVID-19 mRNA vaccine effectiveness (second and first booster dose) against hos...
Kislaya, Irina; Machado, Ausenda; Magalhães, Sarah; Rodrigues, Ana Paula; Franco, Rafael; Leite, Pedro Pinto; Dias, Carlos Matias; Nunes, BaltazarFunding Information: The authors are grateful to Marta Barreto and Verónica Gómez from the Department of Epidemiology of Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge and Camila Cruz and João Lima from Shared Services of the Health Ministry for their contributions for this work. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). All rights reserved.; We measured vaccine ef...
COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections, COVID...
Machado, Ausenda; Kislaya, Irina; Rodrigues, Ana Paula; Sequeira, Duarte; Lima, João; Cruz, Camila; Leite, Pedro Pinto; Dias, Carlos MatiasPublisher Copyright: © 2022 Machado et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.; Background Using data from electronic health registries, this study intended to estimate the COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness (VE) in th...
Effectiveness of complete primary vaccination against COVID-19 at primary care ...
Kissling, Esther; Hooiveld, Mariette; Martinez-Baz, Ivan; Mazagatos, Clara; William, Naoma; Vilcu, Ana Maria; Kooijman, Marjolein N.; Ilic, MajaFunding Information: This project received funding from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) under the contract ECD.11486. Funding Information: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101003673. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). All rights rese...
Local problem solving in the Portuguese health examination survey
Lyshol, Heidi; Gil, Ana Paula; Tolonen, Hanna; Namorado, Sónia; Kislaya, Irina; Barreto, Marta; Antunes, Liliana; Gaio, Vânia; Santos, Ana João© 2022. The Author(s).; BACKGROUND: Participation rates in health surveys, recognized as an important quality dimension, have been declining over the years, which may affect representativeness and confidence in results. The Portuguese national health examination survey INSEF (2015) achieved a participation rate of 43.9%, which is in line with participation rates from other similar health examination surveys. Th...