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Imunização contra a COVID-19: contributo dos serviços farmacêuticos hospitalare...

As vacinas previnem cerca de 2,5 milhões de mortes em todo o mundo a cada ano e estão entre as mais económicas medidas preventivas contra doenças infeciosas. Apesar da sua eficácia e disponibilidade, as taxas de vacinação e a aceitação deste serviço permanecem abaixo do ideal.

Determinants of dioxins and furans in blood of non-occupationally exposed popul...

Biomonitoring of dioxin body burden, as evaluated by PCDD/F levels in blood, has been carried out in a total of 138 adults from general population living in the vicinity of solid waste incinerators in Portugal. Measurements were performed included in cross-sectional surveys within two Environmental Health Surveillance Programs launched in response to ecotoxicological concern in relation to solid waste incinerat...

Human exposure to heavy metals in the vicinity of Portuguese solid waste incine...

Human exposure to heavy metals makes it necessary to monitor these elements in the human body if the objective is to relate heavy metal exposure to adverse health effects. In Portugal, biomonitoring projects on heavy metals are being carried out on people living in the vicinity of solid waste incinerators. The projects are being developed in the ambit of two environmental health surveillance programs related to...

Human exposure to heavy metals in the vicinity of Portuguese solid waste incine...

As part of environmental health surveillance programs related to solid waste incinerators located near Lisbon and on Madeira Island, human biomonitoring projects have been implemented in Portugal, some of them focused on crosssectional surveys of heavy metals in blood. One of the general aims of these programs is to provide Portuguese data on the extent and pattern of human exposure to the pollutants potentiall...

Human exposure to heavy metals in the vicinity of Portuguese solid waste incine...

As a part of environmental health surveillance programs related to Portuguese solid waste incinerators (SWI), two biomonitoring projects have been established to investigate additional exposure to lead in children under the age of 6 years living in the vicinity of those facilities. The above-mentioned programs, being the only ones in the country that integrate systematic observations on human exposure to heavy ...

Biomonitoring of PCDD/Fs in populations living near portuguese solid waste inci...

In the context of two Environmental Health Surveillance Programs, launched in response to public and scientific concern in relation to waste incinerators located near Lisbon and in Madeira Island, two human biomonitoring projects have been started in Portugal,focussed in dioxins and dioxin-like compounds in human milk. Results from the undertaken studies have already provided data on the extent and pattern of d...

Possible additional exposure to dioxin and dioxin-like compounds from waste inc...

Estratégias de saúde pública relativas à exposição a dioxinas : programas de vi...

A quantificação da exposição humana a dioxinas torna imprescindível o recurso à monitorização destes compostos no organismo humano, quando o objectivo é relacionar exposição e efeitos adversos na saúde dos indivíduos, e, por maioria de razão, quando os efeitos visados são os precoces, antes do aparecimento dos sinais clínicos. O leite materno é uma das matrizes humanas mais convenientes para a biomonitorização ...