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Planning Matters: A Document Analysis of 24 Portuguese Health Programmes
Costa, S; Morais Vilaça, I; Lima, D; Pinheiro-Guedes, L; Barbosa, S; Salvador, S; Barbabela, R; Carvalho, AC; Oliveira, P; Chaves, AC; Teixeira, MBackground: Health planning is essential for effective public health interventions and optimal resource utilisation. The Portuguese Directorate-General of Health has a long history of developing health plans and programmes, for communicable and noncommunicable diseases, and their determinants. This study aimed to review the current 24 programmes and assess the adequacy of their structure and content. Methods: A...
Industries, citizens, and non-governmental organizations’ positioning and argum...
Baumann, S; Leão, TBackground: The European region has the highest daily alcohol consumption per capita and a high alcohol-related burden of disease. Policymaking at the European Union level is open to participation by interest groups, from public health organizations to alcohol industry representatives. This study aimed to map the interest groups present in the alcohol taxation and cross-border regulation initiatives and identif...
Ter filhos afeta de forma diferente a vida pessoal e profissional de pais e mães?
Leão, T; Maia, AS; Perelman, J; Moreno, J; Lucas, R; Dimka, J; Pereira, M; Mamelund, SE; Severo, M; Fraga, S; Amaro, JA parentalidade, outrora aceite como uma obrigação natural, é hoje uma escolha mais autónoma. Contudo, as pressões sociais que recaem sobre mulheres e homens no momento de serem pais tornam a vivência desta experiência ainda mais desafiante. Por permanecerem enraizadas conceções tradicionais sobre a divisão do trabalho, que atribuem ao homem o papel de provedor da família e à mulher o papel de cuidadora, a pare...
Imagine your perfect park: a qualitative study on adolescents’ usage of green s...
Costa, MS; Almeida, DQ; Silva, JP; Barros, H; Ribeiro, AI; Leão, TGreen spaces are essential urban infrastructures. They represent cost-effective interventions to reduce health inequities and contribute to climate-resilient cities and adolescents’ health and well-being. Nevertheless, evidence suggests they are underused by adolescents, especially in Southern Europe. We explored the perspectives of adolescents on their use of green spaces (including frequency of use, activitie...
Post-traumatic stress disorder in youth exposed to the Syrian conflict: A syste...
Kanan, J; Leão, TA decade of ongoing armed conflict in Syria has damaged the physical and mental health of millions of adults and children. This study aimed to systematically review the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder among youth exposed to the Syrian conflict, and understand its individual and contextual determinants. The screening procedure resulted in 26 studies, with a total of 11,400 Syrian children and adoles...
The relationship between social capital and inflammatory biomarkers in early ad...
Teixeira, P; Leão, T; Severo, M; Ramos, E; Fraga, SHigher levels of social capital (SC) are associated with better health status. However, there is little evidence of the impact of SC on biological health outcomes in the early ages. To identify the association between SC in adolescence and inflammation levels in early adulthood. Prospective study using data from 2435 participants from the Epidemiological Health Investigation of Teenagers in Porto cohort. SC was...
Is gender equality associated with a longer healthier life? Ecological evidence...
Leão, T; Doetsch, J; Henriques, A; Fraga, S"Background The association between gender equality and higher life expectancies has been described. Yet, little is known about its association with healthy life expectancy (HLE), or which domains are consistently associated with longer and healthier lives. We aimed to study the association between country-level gender equality, its domains and subdomains, with life expectancy and HLE in Europe, from 2013 to 20...
The influence of the Great Recession on perinatal health—an ecological study on...
Doetsch, JN; Almendra, R; Severo, M; Leão, T; Teixeira, R; Marques, S; Pilot, E; Krafft, T; Barros, HBackground: Few studies examine the relationship between socioeconomic factors and trends in mortality in high-income European countries. Due to the lack of regional-level data, most recent studies on social inequality in Portugal do not investigate regional differences. This study analyses time trends and regional disparities in the evolution of perinatal mortality (PMR) and infant mortality (IMR) associated w...
Insomnia and nightmare profiles during the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal: chara...
Gonçalves, M; Henriques, A; Costa, AR; Correia, D; Severo, M; Lucas, R; Barros, H; Santos, AC; Ribeiro, AI; Rocha, A; Lopes, C; Correia, D; Ramos, EObjective/background: To describe and characterize insomnia symptoms and nightmare profiles in Portugal during the first six weeks of a national lockdown due to COVID-19. Patients/methods: An open cohort study was conducted to collect information of the general population during the first wave of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal. We analyzed data from 5011 participants (≥16 years) who answered a weekly ...
Strengthening resilience of healthcare systems by focusing on perinatal and mat...
Doetsch, JN; Leão, T; Krafft, T; Barros, H[No abstract available]