The rates of malnutrition can go up to 20% in community and 80% among institutionalized older people. We have no surveillance system designed to detect and act on this issue. Our goal is to design a...
Tuberculosis (TB) is known to be associated with socioeconomic inequalities. Knowing that Portugal is nowadays facing a particularly serious situation concerning financial sustainability, and given...
A core feature of the national strategy for improving mental health (MH) and preventing suicide is to enhance the primary health care (PC) capacity in diagnosing and treating depression and...
Studies regarding unsafe food are limited in Portugal. However, a recent study regarding the attendees in primary care centers in 2012 showed that 49.0% of Portuguese households represented unsafe...
Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASP) are interventions designed to improve the proper use of microbials and prevent Healthcare-associated infections (HAI). In Portugal, the rates of HAIS are high...
This Project intends to implement a program to promote mental health in vulnerable population at higher risk of developing psychopathology - children and adolescents of parents with psychiatric...
To draw interventions, we must know the specificities of the target audience in their environment. However, the healthcare professionals do not have access to the individual and context information...
Reassessing the Portuguese mental health system: evaluating its performance, and designing a new financial and organizational model aimed at enhancing its equity, efficiency, and quality. The National...
Given that Portugal is in a situation of economic crisis, which is affecting many of its families, and has a high prevalence of obesity and cardiovascular diseases it is urgent to develop intervention...
STOP Depression meets one of the main recommendations of the National Plan of Mental Health-PNSM by implementing a pilot-study of stepped care and task-shifting for improving and expanding the...
Only 10–15% of mentally ill children and adolescents worldwide receive help from Mental Health (MH) services (WHO 2005). The Why Youth Mental Health Care School-Based with Primary Care Liaison...
This project takes into account the international and European frameworks, the strategic orientations and the political commitments in terms of gender equality and gender mainstreaming. It also...
