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Polícias, trabalho e consumos de performance
Gonçalves, Carlos Manuel; Tavares, David; Lopes, Noémia; Elias, RúbenO equacionamento das relações entre natureza do trabalho e os consumos de performance (medicamentos, suplementos alimentares e outros produtos naturais) para a melhoria do desempenho físico, intelectual e social do grupo profissional dos polícias, que integram a Polícia de Segurança Pública, é o objeto central do presente artigo. O recurso a tal tipo de consumos é um fenómeno social com relativa disseminação cu...
Medication use for the management of professional performance: between invisibi...
Lopes, Noémia; Tavares, David; Pegado, Elsa; Raposo, Hélder António; Rodrigues, CarlaThis article aims to explore pharmaceuticalisation processes in professional work contexts. The approach focuses on identifying patterns of medicine and dietary supplement use for managing work performance, and on discussing the relationship between these consumption practices and work-related pressure factors. This analysis adapts the notions of 'normalisation' to understand the extent of cultural acceptabilit...
Nurses under pressure: the demands of professional performance and their manage...
Raposo, Hélder António; Egreja, Catarina; Lopes, NoémiaThis article discusses the relationship between the demands on nurses’ professional performance and adherence to the use of medicines and supplements for their management. This approach allows us to analyze the transformations of nursing work and how nurses use various natural and pharmaceutical resources to cope with the pressures they face in their professional activities. To understand the interconnection be...
Polícias, trabalho e consumos de performance
Gonçalves, Carlos Manuel; Tavares, David; Lopes, Noémia; Elias, RúbenO equacionamento das relações entre natureza do trabalho e os consumos de performance (medicamentos, suplementos alimentares e outros produtos naturais) para a melhoria do desempenho físico, intelectual e social do grupo profissional dos polícias, que integram a Polícia de Segurança Pública, é o objeto central do presente artigo. O recurso a tal tipo de consumos é um fenómeno social com relativa disseminação cu...
Medication use for the management of professional performance : between invisib...
Lopes, Noémia; Tavares, David; Pegado, Elsa; Raposo, Hélder; Rodrigues, CarlaThis article aims to explore pharmaceuticalisation processes in professional work contexts. The approach focuses on identifying patterns of medicine and dietary supplement use for managing work performance, and on discussing the relationship between these consumption practices and work-related pressure factors. This analysis adapts the notions of ‘normalisation’ to understand the extent of cultural acceptabilit...
Nurses under pressure : the demands of professional performance and their manag...
Raposo, Hélder; Egreja, Catarina; Lopes, NoémiaThis article discusses the relationship between the demands on nurses’ professional performance and adherence to the use of medicines and supplements for their management. This approach allows us to analyze the transformations of nursing work and how nurses use various natural and pharmaceutical resources to cope with the pressures they face in their professional activities. To understand the interconnection be...
Polícias, trabalho e consumos de performance
Gonçalves, Carlos Manuel; Tavares, David; Lopes, Noémia; Elias, RúbenEquating the relationship between the nature of work and performance consumption (medicines, food supplements and other natural products) to enhance physical, intellectual and social performance of the professional group of police officers (Polícia de Segurança Pública) is the object center of this article. The use of such consumption is a social phenomenon with relative cultural dissemination within the scope ...
«I heard about some pills» : the online as a sharing space and source of inform...
Egreja, Catarina; Elias, Rúben; Lopes, NoémiaDeparting from a broader sociological study, this article presents exploratory research seeking to analyse practices of online information exchange on the consumption of medicines and food supplements among students, mainly to improve cognitive performance. It aims to show that the Internet is a relevant space which should be considered when analysing where lay people, specifically students, get information abo...
Medicines and medication literacy : social practices and use of information
Lopes, Noémia; Pegado, Elsa; Egreja, Catarina; Rodrigues, Carla; Fernandes, Ana IsabelThis article discusses results from a sociological study on (i) the sources and use of information on medicines and/or supplements and (ii) the self-assessment of how informed participants were about the last medicine or supplement they purchased. It seeks to demonstrate the plurality of information sources (expert and lay) that individuals call upon—with which they build up their medication literacy—and their ...
Medication literacy and its social contextuality
Lopes, Noémia; Rodrigues, Carla; Pegado, ElsaThis article aims to contribute to the discussion about medication literacy, by focussing on the social contextuality of the information mobilised in the use of medicines. We aim to explore the social construction processes of medication literacy, as an essential dimension for a more layperson-centred approach in the promotion of literacy in this field. This approach is justified by the growing social and cultu...