Introduction: Chronic pain, defined as pain that persists for at least three months, is a public health problem that affects 37% of the adult Portuguese population. Coping strategies refer to the adaptive mechanisms and behaviours that individuals use to deal with stressful situations, such as chronic pain, which can be adaptive or maladaptive. Knowing the strategies adopted by people with chronic pain allows f...
Since the negotiation of the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement at WTO negotiations, rich countries and the pharmaceutical industry have delayed competition from generic medicines with disastrous consequences for millions of Africans with HIV/AIDS. This paper shall analyze: 1. How TRIPS Agreement safeguards to protect public health have been undermined by patent extensions, ...
Water management of hydrological basins has been the source of low intensity conflicts, specially when shared by more than one state, due to the differentiated water and energy management perspectives, and relatively to isolated water auto-efficiency which every states tends to pursue in an isolated manner. Thus the author shall analyze and demonstrate the superiority of regional cooperation perspectives to the...