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Home / Archives for International Journal of Public Health

A tool for exploring the dynamics of innovative interventions for public health: the critical event card

  • Autores: Bernier J, Couturier Y, de Araújo Oliveira SR, de Sa RF, do Socorro Machado Freire M, Figueiró AC, Hartz Z, Medina MG, Potvin L, Samico I
  • Ano de Publicação: 2017
  • Journal: International Journal of Public Health
  • Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00038-016-0861-5

Public health interventions are increasingly represented as complex systems. Research tools for capturing the dynamic of interventions processes, however, are practically non-existent. This paper describes the development and proof of concept process of an analytical tool, the critical event card (CEC), which supports the representation and analysis of complex interventions’ evolution, based on critical events. […]
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Cross-sectional and prospective relationship between physical activity and chronic diseases in European older adults

  • Autores: Brownson RC, de Matos MG, Marques A, Martins J, Peralta M
  • Ano de Publicação: 2017
  • Journal: International Journal of Public Health
  • Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00038-016-0919-4

This study examined the relationship between physical activity (PA) and chronic diseases in European older adults, using a prospective analysis with data from 2011 and 2013. Participants were 37,524 older adults (16,204 men) who responded to the fourth (in 2011) and fifth (in 2013) wave of SHARE project, from 13 European countries. Participants’ answers to […]
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Distress and unemployment: the related economic and noneconomic factors in a sample of unemployed adults

  • Autores: Caldas de Almeida JM, de Matos MG, Frasquilho D, Gaspar T, Marques A
  • Ano de Publicação: 2016
  • Journal: International Journal of Public Health
  • Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00038-016-0806-z

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Factors associated with HIV testing among immigrants in Portugal.

  • Autores: Barros H, Dias S, Gama A, Severo M
  • Journal: International Journal of Public Health
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21057852

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This paper describes the uptake of HIV testing and its associated factors among a sample of immigrants in Portugal.
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