GHTM

Global Health and Tropical Medicine

  • GHTM
    • Vision
    • Mission
    • Governance
    • Scientific Advisory Board
  • News
    • Outreach
    • Events
      • GHTM Sessions
      • Workshops
    • Articles
    • Jobs
  • Research
    • Cross-cutting issues
      • Global Pathogen Dispersion and Population Mobility
      • Drug Discovery and Drug Resistance
      • Diagnostics
      • Public Health Information
      • Fair Research Partnerships
    • Research Groups
      • PPS – Population health, policies and services
      • THOP – TB, HIV and opportunistic diseases and pathogens
      • VBD – Vector borne diseases and pathogens
      • IHC – Individual health care
    • Research in numbers
      • 2020
      • 2019
      • 2018
      • 2017
    • Projects
      • Ongoing Projects
    • Members
      • Population health, policies and services
        • PPS PhD members
        • PPS non PhD members
      • TB, HIV and opportunistic diseases and pathogens
        • THOP PhD members
        • THOP non PhD members
      • Vector-borne diseases and pathogens
        • VBD PhD members
        • VBD non PhD members
      • Individual Health Care
        • IHC PhD members
        • IHC non PhD members
      • Technical / administrative support
  • Publications
  • Education
    • Master Theses
    • PhD Theses
  • Services
Home / Archives for Delgado AP

The need for planning training among public health officers in Cape Verde

  • Autores: Ferrinho P, da Luz Lima Mendonça M, Delgado AP
  • Ano de Publicação: 2019
  • Journal: International Journal of Health Planning and Management
  • Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30211961

Cape Verde is a small island developing state (SIDS). The health sector is guided by strategic and programmatic documents of the Ministry of Health. The objective of this paper is to understand the planning capacity and experience of its Public Health Officers. A questionnaire was applied to 27 Cape Verdean public health officers in order […]
Ler mais

Low potassium and high sodium intakes: A double health threat to Cape Verdeans

  • Autores: Alves D, Santos Z, Amado M, Craveiro I, Delgado AP, Correia A, Gonçalves L
  • Ano de Publicação: 2018
  • Journal: BMC Public Health
  • Link: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-018-5911-x

Background Cape Verde presents a high rate of cardiovascular diseases. Low potassium and high sodium intakes are related to cardiovascular diseases. However, studies regarding these two micronutrients continue to be rare in African urban settings. This work aims to estimate potassium and sodium intakes and to analyse the self-reported salt intake by gender and by […]
Ler mais

Establishment of a cooperation network in medical education in the scope of PECS-CPLP

  • Autores: Delgado AP, Ferreira MA, Ferrinho P, Fresta MJ, Sambo MR, Sidat M, Torgal J
  • Ano de Publicação: 2016
  • Journal: Anais do Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical
  • Link: http://ihmtweb.ihmt.unl.pt/PublicacoesFB/Anais/Anais2016-suplemento/index.html#29/z

Given the strong growth of medical education initiatives in African Member States of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) and considering the increased cooperation in medical education, it is justified under the Strategic Plan for Cooperation in Health (PECS) of the CPLP, to think this cooperation in a triangular, southnorth-south approach, coordinating the initiatives […]
Ler mais

The evolution of the medical workforce in Cape Verde since independence in 1975

  • Autores: Delgado AP, Ferrinho P, Tolentino AC
  • Ano de Publicação: 2017
  • Journal: Human Resources for Health
  • Link: https://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-017-0180-9

Background Cape Verdean doctors have always graduated abroad. The first experience of pre-graduate medical education in Cape Verde begun in October 2015. Counting how many doctors Cape Verde has, knowing who they are, and knowing how they are distributed are very important to help fine-tune the medical training. The aim of this study is to […]
Ler mais

Determinants, Health Problems, and Food Insecurity in Urban Areas of the Largest City in Cape Verde

  • Autores: Alves D, Amado M, Correia A, Craveiro I, Delgado AP, Fortes AT, Gonçalves L, Santos Z
  • Ano de Publicação: 2016
  • Journal: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5129365/

Urbanization processes are intertwined with nutritional transition because there is easier access to food of low nutritional quality at reduced prices, changing dietary patterns and leading to an increase of non-communicable chronic diseases. This study aims to understand the perceptions for high blood pressure, obesity, and alcoholism, describing some interactions of these dimensions in the […]
Ler mais

  • 1
  • 2
  • Next Page »

About GHTM

GHTM is a R&D Center that brings together researchers from IHMT with a track record in Tropical Medicine and International/Global Health. It aims at strengthening Portugal's role as a leading partner in the development and implementation of a global health research agenda. Our evidence-based interventions contribute to the promotion of equity in health and to improve the health of populations.

Contacts

Rua da Junqueira, 100
1349-008 Lisboa
Portugal
+351 213 652 600
+351 213 632 105

  • Facebook
  • YouTube

Subscribe Newsletter

  • How to get to GHTM/IHMT
  • GHTM Sessions
  • Research Groups
  • Cross-cutting issues
© Copyright 2023 IHMT-UNL Todos os Direitos Reservados.
  • Universidade Nova de Lisboa
  • Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

    Project UID/Multi/04413/2013