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WhatsApp: A supplementary tool for improving bed nets universal coverage campaign in Mozambique

Background WhatsApp (WA) is the most recent and attractive applicative among Smartphone users. The use of WA in healthcare environment has been shown of multiple benefices. Mozambique team involved in 2017 bed nets universal coverage campaign (UCC) implemented a distant mentoring strategy using WA. This study aims to perform a descriptive analysis of the use […]
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The potential of focus groups in health research: A study on immigrants’ access to and utilization of health services

Focus groups have been widely used in health research to explore the perspectives and experiences of individuals regarding health, illness and the health system, and to understand its sociocultural and contextual factors. Migrant health is increasingly a research topic of interest nationwide. Immigrants are recognized as a group that tends to underuse healthcare services, which […]
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Elementary and lower secondary school students’ perceptions of the health at school programme: A case study in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

The Health at School Programme is a Brazilian inter-sector policy resulting from a partnership between the Ministries of Health and Education to expand health actions to public school students, with a view to the comprehensive education of primary and lower middle school students. This qualitative study was carried out in 2016 to investigate Brazilian schoolchildren’s […]
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Fruit and Vegetable Consumption among Immigrants in Portugal: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Stud

This study aims to compare adequate fruit and vegetable (F&V) intake between immigrants and natives in Portugal, and to analyse factors associated with consumption of F&V among immigrants. Data from a population based cross-sectional study (2014) was used. The final sample comprised 17,410 participants (≥20 years old), of whom 7.4% were immigrants. Chi-squared tests and […]
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Depressive symptoms at 13 years as predictors of depression in older adolescents: a prospective 4-year follow-up study in a nonclinical population

Depression is the most important source of disability in adolescents, partially due to its recurrence. There is a lack of studies on population-based samples investigating the continuity of depressive symptoms during adolescence. This study evaluates depressive symptoms at early adolescence as predictors of depressive symptoms later in adolescence. Urban adolescents born in 1990 and enrolled […]
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