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Pulmonary Rehabilitation Nursing Interventions Promoting Self-Care in Elderly P...
Salvado, Susana; Grilo, Eugénia; Henriques, Helga; Ferraz, Isabel; Gaspar, Filomena; Baixinho, CristinaBackground/Objectives: Pulmonary rehabilitation is recognised as one of the most cost-effective interventions. However, patients’ adherence to these programmes remains a challenge. This systematic literature review aimed to describe pulmonary rehabilitation interventions carried out by nurses that promote self-care in elderly people with COPD (at home). Methods: The exploratory literature search was conducted t...
Productive experience and specialization opportunities for Portugal : an empiri...
Freitas, Miguel Lebre de; Nunes, Luis Catela; Neves, Rui Costa; Salvado, SusanaFollowing Hidalgo et al. (Sci Mag 317: 482–487, 2007), we use the structure of international trade to estimate a measure of “revealed relatedness” for each pair of internationally traded products, which intends to capture similarities in terms of the endowments or capabilities they use in production. Our method departs from the original one, in that we run statistical tests of equality in probabilities, instead...
Fiscal Policy Coordination Gains in a Monetary Union
Salvado, SusanaThe objective of my PhD thesis is to understand how much can a Monetary Union gain if its fiscal policy were conducted in a coordinated way. My main conclusion is that fiscal policy coordination should be accounted in order to achieve an higher long term welfare level, but is not appealing as ashort-run mechanism for reacting to shocks. The main contribution of this work concerns the quantification of the fisca...
Industry similarities, comparative advantage and structural transformation : th...
Freitas, Miguel Lebre de; Salvado, SusanaThis paper provides an empirical assessment of the “sophistication” of the Portuguese pattern of trade in 2005 and its possible implications for the process of structural transformation. Using trade data at the product (NC4) level for 96 countries in 2005, we first compute a measure of sophistication for each product (PRODY), as a weighted average of the per capita incomes of countries that export it. Following...