By March 2020, the first COVID-19 cases were detected in Portugal. Anecdotal evidence showed that the National Health Service absenteeism rate rose. The present study aimed to quantify and characterize the absenteeism rate among these healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal. This study used data from the Portuguese National Health Service Transparency Portal for the number of National Health...
Funding Information: The authors declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was supported by Programa de Desenvolvimento Rural 2020 (PDR 2020), Programa Operacional da Região Centro (Centro2020), Portugal2020, and Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER) under the projects “PinusResina” [grant number PDR2020-101-031905] and “BIOPIN...
This work was supported by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal, through projects UID/QUI/00100/2019, IF/01091/2013/CP1163/CT0001 and PTDC/QUIQAN/32242/2017 as well as doctoral fellowships SFRH/BD/102846/2014 (to CC) and SFRH/BD/140157/2018 (to JN);joint funding from FCT and the COMPETE Program is also acknowledge through RNEM-LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-022125-funded postdoctoral fellowship (to JM)....