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Critically ill patient mortality by age
Gonçalves-Pereira, João; Oliveira, André; Vieira, Tatiana; Rodrigues, Ana Rita; Pinto, Maria João; Pipa, Sara; Martinho, Ana; Ribeiro, SofiaFunding Information: Collaborators of the CIMBA-LT study: Hospital Vila Franca de Xira: André Oliveira; João Gonçalves-Pereira; Joaquim Lima. Centro Hospitalar de Médio Tejo (Abrantes): Rui Assis; Joana Monteiro. Hospital Nélio Mendonça (Funchal): André Simões; Catarina Lume. Centro Hospitalar de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Vila Real): Maria João Pinto. Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia: Sara Pipa. Hospit...
Ongoing monkeypox virus outbreak, Portugal, 29 April to 23 May 2022
Duque, Mariana Perez; Ribeiro, Sofia; Martins, João Vieira; Casaca, Pedro; Leite, Pedro Pinto; Tavares, Margarida; Mansinho, Kamal; Duque, Luís MiguelPublisher Copyright: © 2022 European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). All rights reserved.; Up to 27 May 2022, Portugal has detected 96 confirmed cases of monkeypox. We describe 27 confirmed cases (median age: 33 years (range: 22–51); all males), with an earliest symptom onset date of 29 April. Almost all cases (n = 25) live in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley health region. Most cases were neither ...
A strategy for the promotion of health literacy in Portugal, centered around th...
Costa, Andreia Silva; Arriaga, Miguel; Veloso Mendes, Rita; Miranda, Débora; Barbosa, Patrícia; Sakellarides, Constantino; Peralta, AndréApplied to health, literacy enhances the capacity to make the decisions that are necessary for autonomous health management. With this position paper, we intend to defend the thesis that the conditions for creating a national strategy for health literacy in Portugal along the life course are strengthened by the modernization of the National Health Service (SNS). First, we conducted a scope review on health lite...