Background: This paper aims to discuss how physical activity (PA) brief assessment, brief counseling, and self-monitoring tools were designed and implemented in the Portuguese National Health Service (NHS), and to report on their current use by health professionals and citizens. Methods: Three digital tools to facilitate PA promotion in primary health care (PHC) were developed: 1) a PA brief assessment tool was...
During a period of twelve years--January 1983 to December 1994, 371 children suspected of foreign body inhalation were admitted in Hospital Pediatric of Coimbra. The diagnosis was confirmed in 200 of them (54%), and this group was analysed. The incidence has increased until 1989 and stabilized in the last 5 years with a median of 18 cases/year. Two third of the children were boys and 84% were under three years ...