Background: Health and fitness apps have potential benefits to improve self-management and disease control among patients with asthma. However, inconsistent use rates have been reported across studies, regions, and health systems. A better understanding of the characteristics of users and nonusers is critical to design solutions that are effectively integrated in patients’ daily lives, and to ensure that these ...
Health and fitness apps have potential benefits to improve self-management and disease control among patients with asthma. However, inconsistent use rates have been reported across studies, regions, and health systems. A better understanding of the characteristics of users and nonusers is critical to design solutions that are effectively integrated in patients’ daily lives, and to ensure that these equitably re...
In recent years there has been an increase in the number of cases of intestinal tuberculosis mainly due to the HIV epidemic. Its clinical manifestations and endoscopic findings are nonspecific, making diagnosis difficult, requiring high degree of suspicion. The authors present the case of a man, 55 years old, immunocompetent, who goes to the doctor due to constitutional symptoms after two months of evolution. G...
Tendo em conta que o retorno de meio milhão de portugueses residentes nas ex-colónias constitui um dos fenómenos mais marcantes da sociedade portuguesa dos anos 70 e, simultaneamente, a consequência menos estudada do processo de descolonização, este importante fenómeno social foi tomado como objecto de estudo de um trabalho final da licenciatura em Sociologia pela Universidade de Coimbra. Conceptualmente, os re...