The authors assess the contributions of Portugal to the development of health systems in the Portuguese African empire until the early 20th century. The marine medicine, the support of health facilities in mainland Africa and the interventions of the Misericórdias are touched upon. Only after the French Revolution, the independence of Brazil and the liberal war in Portugal, under the pressure of the English Ult...
The author presents over 60 years of his professional experience on the Inst ituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, since the beginning of his career at 16 years of age, as laboratory technician in Angola, in the Missão de Prospecção de Endemias, to his research work on Medical Parasitology, with part icular emphasis on Medical Entomology and specially on mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae), after the independence o...
In this art icle, we present the diagnosis project of the Inst ituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT) Library and its collect ion. We selected the main tools of analysis, and the criteria and parameters proposed for the general descript ion and analysis of historical charact er of t he document s, applied in a case st udy of t he “ Anais doIHMT ”. In conclusion we point out some fut ure perspectives which ...
The term neglected and poverty-related diseases, despite not being clearly defined, is usually regarded as synonym of a group of illnesses that primarily occur in developing count ries, where they severely impact the morbidity and mortality of the populat ions they afflict . Notwithstanding the absence, for some of them, of adequate prophylact ic as well as therapeut ic intervent ions, their persistence is very...
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