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Avaliação de Impacte na Saúde

Active and healthy aging after COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal and other European...

The population aging in Europe imposes challenges to societies that require adaptations and responses at various levels to minimize impacts and figuring out opportunities. Portugal has been committed to the World Health Organization and European Union's values and policy frameworks concerning active and healthy aging. In 2017, an inter-ministerial working group developed the National Strategy for Active and Hea...

Psychosocial Determinants of Presenteeism at the Workplace in the Pre - COVID-1...

Introduction: The impact of organizational stressors on presenteeism at individual and organizational levels, mediated by workers Psychological Wellbeing (PWB) acting as a buffering effect, in the pre-COVID-19 era, is reported. We hypothesize that individual wellbeing is the pathway through which organizational stress affects presenteeism. Methods: A study was conducted between November 2012 and June 2013 and d...

Pandemia SARS-CoV-2

Sociodemographic disparities in hypertension prevalence: results from the first...

Introduction: Cardiovascular disease is an important cause of death and disability worldwide, and hypertension is responsible for at least 45% of all deaths due to heart disease and 51% of deaths due to stroke. This study aimed to estimate and describe the distribution of prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in the Portuguese population in 2015. Methods: A national survey using a represe...

Portuguese version of a stress and well-being evaluation tool (ASSET) at the wo...

Objective: The main objective of this work was to translate the English version of ASSET (A Shortened Stress Evaluation Tool) into the Portuguese version and to validate its psychometric properties. Additionally, this work tested the convergent validity of the instrument. Methods: The translation and retroversion were conducted by experts and submitted to the authors for approval. Within an observational, cross...

A comparison of in-hospital acute myocardial infarction management between Port...

Objective: To compare healthcare in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) treatment between contrasting health systems using comparable representative data from Europe and USA. Design: Repeated cross-sectional retrospective cohort study. Setting: Acute care hospitals in Portugal and USA during 2000-2010. Participants: Adults discharged with AMI. Interventions: Coronary revascularizations procedures (percutaneous co...

The Atlantic divide in coronary heart disease : epidemiology and patient care i...

Introduction and Objectives: We aimed to compare access to new health technologies to treat coronary heart disease (CHD) in the health systems of Portugal and the US, characterizing the needs of the populations and the resources available. Methods: We reviewed data for 2000 and 2010 on epidemiologic profiles of CHD and on health care available to patients. Thirty health technologies (16 medical devices and 14 d...

Picturing inequities for health impact assessment : linked electronic records, ...

Health impact assessment (HIA) focuses on minimizing inequities when studying the effects of a policy on the population’s health. Nevertheless, it is seldom simultaneously quantified, multivariate, and visually graphically comprehensible for non-statisticians. This paper aims to address that gap, assessing a policy promoting the quality of Electronic Health Records, linking hospital and primary health care data...

Prevalência de hipertensão arterial em Portugal : resultados do Primeiro Inquér...

The aim of this study was to estimate the distribution of prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hyper tension in the Portuguese population in 2015. A National survey using a representative sample of 4911 individuals, living in Portugal for more than 12 months and aged between 25 and 74 years old, was implemented. Trained nurses per formed a health inter view and a physical examination, which comprised...