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Home / Archives for 2013

Scaling-up the medical work- force in Timor-Leste: Challenges of a great leap forward

  • Autores: Buchan J, Cabral J, Dussault G, Ferrinho P
  • Ano de Publicação: 2013
  • Journal: Social Science & Medicine
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23932856

The health services system of Timor-Leste (T-L) will, by 2015, add 800 physicians, most of them trained in Cuba, to the 233 employed by the national health system in 2010-2011. The need for more physicians is not in discussion: poor health indicators, low coverage and utilization of services, and poor quality of services are well documented in T-L.
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Depressive symptoms and its associated factors in 13-year-old urban adolescents

  • Autores: Barros H, Bulhões C, Dias S, Lindert J, Ramos E
  • Ano de Publicação: 2013
  • Journal: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24129117

The available estimates reveal that 20-50% of adolescents report depressive symptoms, being one of the most prevalent health problems in adolescence. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of depressive symptoms in a community sample of 13-year-old adolescents and identify associated features.
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Nursing workforce policy and the economic crisis: A global overview

  • Autores: Buchan J, Dussault G, O'May
  • Ano de Publicação: 2013
  • Journal: Journal of Nursing Scholarship
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23656542

This article draws from international data sources (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD] and World Health Organization), from national data sources (nursing regulatory authorities), and the literature to provide a context in which to examine trends in labor market and health spending indicators, nurse employment, and nurse migration patterns.
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Remember kerion celsi

  • Autores: Brissos J, Gouveia C, Neves C, Varandas L
  • Ano de Publicação: 2013
  • Journal: BMJ Case Reports
  • Link: http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2013/bcr-2013-200594.extract

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Entomological and ecological studies in a new potential zoonotic leishmaniasis focus in Torres Novas municipality, Central Region, Portugal

  • Autores: Afonso MO, Alves-Pires C, Branco S, Campino L, Cortes S, Cristóvão JM, Gonçalves L, Maia C
  • Ano de Publicação: 2013
  • Journal: Acta Tropica
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23262215

In Portugal human and canine leishmaniasis are caused by Leishmania infantum, and Phlebotomus perniciosus and P. ariasi are the proven vectors. Three main foci were identified in eighty’s decade: Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro region, Lisbon region and Algarve region, but according to OnLeish observatory data, canine leishmaniasis cases have been reported from several other regions, for which sand fly species and their infection rates are unknown.
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