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Home / Archives for Havik PJ

Mental health, morbidity and mortality of African immigrant communities in Portugal: implications for primary care

  • Autores: Havik PJ, Mapril J, Saraiva C
  • Ano de Publicação: 2018
  • Journal: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323811607_Mental_health_morbidity_and_mortality_of_African_immigrant_communities_in_Portugal_implications_for_primary_care

This chapter aims to relate different aspects of migrants’ self-perception with perspectives held by medical professionals relating to mental disorders and the health seeking behaviour among African migrant communities resident in Portugal. Placing the discussion on mental illness and migration in a public health framework, the chapter first provides an overview of the literature on […]
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Death on the Move: managing narratives, silences and constraints in a trans-national perspective

  • Autores: Havik PJ, Mapril J, Saraiva C
  • Ano de Publicação: 2018
  • Journal: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323811622_Death_on_the_Move_managing_narratives_silences_and_constraints_in_a_trans-national_perspective

The chapters of this book analyse different aspects of the management of death, dying and mortality by migrants in Southern Europe, by deconstructing persistent idiosyncratic beliefs, myths, narratives, silences, and constraints. It focuses on migrants from diverse geographical (Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Brazil, Bangladesh and China) and cultural backgrounds in Portugal, Spain and Italy. It also […]
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Rethinking Historical Trajectories of Tropical Medicine in a Global Perspective

  • Autores: Havik PJ
  • Ano de Publicação: 2018
  • Journal: Anais do Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical
  • Link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324780263_Rethinking_Historical_Trajectories_of_Tropical_Medicine_in_a_Global_Perspective

The Workshop on the History of Tropical Medicine (WHTM) organized under the auspices of the Centre for Global Health and Tropical Medicine (GHTM) took place at the Institute for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine of the Universidade NOVA in Lisbon on 14th and 15th December 2017, forming part of the celebrations of the institute’s 115th anniversary. […]
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Public Health, Social Medicine and Disease Control: Medical Services, Maternal Care and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Former Portuguese West Africa (1920–63)

  • Autores: Havik PJ
  • Ano de Publicação: 2018
  • Journal: Medical History
  • Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30191784

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Agro-economic transitions in Guinea-Bissau (West Africa): Historical trends and current insights

  • Autores: Havik PJ, Monteiro F, Catarino S, Correia AM, Catarino L, Romeiras MM
  • Ano de Publicação: 2018
  • Journal: Sustainability
  • Link: http://ce3c.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/research/publications/ver.php?id=1244

The present study provides a critical analysis of the introduction of exotic food crop species and their impact on agricultural transformations in Guinea-Bissau, based on survey data and a review of the literature from the 1800s to the present. It applies a multidisciplinary analysis to map historical and contemporary agrarian knowledge in Guinea-Bissau, presenting the […]
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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.

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