Insights from the EQUALS4COVID19 study on migrant mental health in Portugal: a cross-sectional mixed-methods approach

Authors: Violeta Alarcão, Pedro Candeias, Miodraga Stefanovska-Petkovska, Júlia Neves, Sónia Pintassilgo, Fernando Luís Machado, Osvaldo Santos, Ana Virgolino, Ricardo R. Santos, Maria João Heitor, Andreia Costa

Source: BMC Public Health, Vol 24, Iss 1, Pp 1-21 (2024)

Subject Terms: COVID-19 pandemic, Mental health, Social determinants of health, Resilience, Social support, Discrimination, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270

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Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1471-2458

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'You get out of the house, you talk to each other, you laugh…And that’s fantastic' – a qualitative study about older people’s perceptions of social prescribing in mainland Portugal

Authors: Andreia Costa, Joana Henriques, Violeta Alarcão, Teresa Madeira, Ana Virgolino, Marie J. Polley, Adriana Henriques, Rodrigo Feteira-Santos, Miguel Arriaga, Paulo Nogueira

Source: BMC Health Services Research, Vol 24, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2024)

Subject Terms: Focus groups, Qualitative research, Community participation, Older adults, Active and healthy aging, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270

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Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1472-6963

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Editorial: Dietary acrylamide in human health

Authors: Federica Laguzzi, Tommaso Filippini, Ana Virgolino

Source: Frontiers in Nutrition, Vol 11 (2024)

Subject Terms: acrylamide, contaminant, carcinogen, genotoxic, human health, dietary exposure, Nutrition. Foods and food supply, TX341-641

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Relation: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2024.1446690/full; https://doaj.org/toc/2296-861X

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Social prescribing for older adults in mainland Portugal: Perceptions and future prospects

Authors: Andreia Costa, Joana Henriques, Violeta Alarcão, Teresa Madeira, Ana Virgolino, Adriana Henriques, Rodrigo Feteira-Santos, Marie Polley, Miguel Arriaga, Paulo Nogueira

Source: Preventive Medicine Reports, Vol 39, Iss , Pp 102652- (2024)

Subject Terms: Social prescribing, Older adults, Quality of life, Person-centered, Portugal, Medicine

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Relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211335524000676; https://doaj.org/toc/2211-3355

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Psychometric properties of the Functional Literacy Questionnaire among Portuguese adolescents.

Authors: Raquel Martins, Carolina Capitão, Rodrigo Feteira-Santos, Ana Virgolino, Osvaldo Santos

Source: PLoS ONE, Vol 19, Iss 10, p e0306802 (2024)

Subject Terms: Medicine, Science

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Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203

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Effectiveness of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in the Recovery of Executive Deficits in Patients with Alcohol Use Disorder: A Systematic Review Protocol

Authors: Sónia Ferreira, Ana Virgolino, Cristina Ribeiro, Samuel Pombo, Leonor Bacelar-Nicolau

Source: Acta Médica Portuguesa (2023)

Subject Terms: Alcoholism, Alcohol Use Disorder, Cognitive Rehabilitation, Executive Functioning, Medicine, Medicine (General), R5-920

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Relation: http://www.actamedicaportuguesa.com/revista/index.php/amp/article/view/19804; https://doaj.org/toc/0870-399X; https://doaj.org/toc/1646-0758

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Clinical and Epidemiological Features of Hospitalized and Ambulatory Patients with Human Monkeypox Infection: A Retrospective Observational Study in Portugal

Authors: João Caria, Raquel Pinto, Ema Leal, Vasco Almeida, Gonçalo Cristóvão, Ana Catarina Gonçalves, Margarida Torres, Maria Beatriz Santos, Hélder Pinheiro, Diana Póvoas, Diana Seixas, Sara Lino, Orlando Cardoso, Maria José Manata, Ana Virgolino, Fernando Maltez

Source: Infectious Disease Reports, Vol 14, Iss 6, Pp 810-823 (2022)

Subject Terms: monkeypox, outbreak, person-to-person transmission, Other systems of medicine, RZ201-999

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Relation: https://www.mdpi.com/2036-7449/14/6/83; https://doaj.org/toc/2036-7449

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Monkeypox: From A Neglected Tropical Disease to a Public Health Threat

Authors: Francisco Antunes, Rita Cordeiro, Ana Virgolino

Source: Infectious Disease Reports, Vol 14, Iss 5, Pp 772-783 (2022)

Subject Terms: zoonosis, monkeypox virus, emerging infectious diseases, West and Central Africa, 2022 outbreak, Other systems of medicine, RZ201-999

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Relation: https://www.mdpi.com/2036-7449/14/5/79; https://doaj.org/toc/2036-7449

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Active aging awareness and well-being among older adults in Portugal

Authors: Andreia Costa, Joana Henriques, Violeta Alarcão, Adriana Henriques, Teresa Madeira, Ana Virgolino, Joana Sousa, Rodrigo Feteira-Santos, Miguel Arriaga, Jorge Rocha, Paulo Nogueira

Source: Frontiers in Public Health, Vol 11 (2023)

Subject Terms: active and healthy aging, well-being, older adults, social inequalities, Portugal, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270

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Relation: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1149731/full; https://doaj.org/toc/2296-2565

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Developing human biomonitoring as a 21st century toolbox within the European exposure science strategy 2020–2030

Authors: Maryam Zare Jeddi, Nancy B. Hopf, Henriqueta Louro, Susana Viegas, Karen S. Galea, Robert Pasanen-Kase, Tiina Santonen, Vicente Mustieles, Mariana F. Fernandez, Hans Verhagen, Stephanie K. Bopp, Jean Philippe Antignac, Arthur David, Hans Mol, Robert Barouki, Karine Audouze, Radu-Corneliu Duca, Peter Fantke, Paul Scheepers, Manosij Ghosh, An Van Nieuwenhuyse, Joana Lobo Vicente, Xenia Trier, Loïc Rambaud, Clémence Fillol, Sebastien Denys, André Conrad, Marike Kolossa-Gehring, Alicia Paini, Jon Arnot, Florian Schulze, Kate Jones, Ovnair Sepai, Imran Ali, Lorraine Brennan, Emilio Benfenati, Francesco Cubadda, Alberto Mantovani, Alena Bartonova, Alison Connolly, Jaroslav Slobodnik, Yuri Bruinen de Bruin, Jacob van Klaveren, Nicole Palmen, Hubert Dirven, Trine Husøy, Cathrine Thomsen, Ana Virgolino, Martin Röösli, Tim Gant, Natalie von Goetz, Jos Bessems

Source: Environment International, Vol 168, Iss , Pp 107476- (2022)

Subject Terms: Human biomonitoring, Chemicals mixtures, Data governance, Zero Pollution Ambition, One substance-one assessment, Circular economy, Environmental sciences, GE1-350

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Relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412022004032; https://doaj.org/toc/0160-4120

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Exposure to heavy metals and red blood cell parameters in children: A systematic review of observational studies

Authors: Carolina Capitão, Raquel Martins, Osvaldo Santos, Manuel Bicho, Tamás Szigeti, Andromachi Katsonouri, Beatrice Bocca, Flavia Ruggieri, Wojciech Wasowicz, Hanna Tolonen, Ana Virgolino

Source: Frontiers in Pediatrics, Vol 10 (2022)

Subject Terms: HBM4EU, biomonitoring, hematology, erythrocyte indices, child, Pediatrics, RJ1-570

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Relation: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2022.921239/full; https://doaj.org/toc/2296-2360

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Hepatitis C antibody prevalence and behavioral correlates in people who inject drugs attending harm reduction services in Lisbon, Portugal

Authors: Adriana Curado, Paulo Jorge Nogueira, Ana Virgolino, João Santa Maria, Luís Mendão, Cristina Furtado, Francisco Antunes

Source: Frontiers in Public Health, Vol 10 (2022)

Subject Terms: hepatitis C virus, injecting drug use, prevalence, behavioral correlates of infection, Portugal, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270

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Relation: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.952909/full; https://doaj.org/toc/2296-2565

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Developing healthy eating promotion mass media campaigns: A qualitative study

Authors: Carolina Capitão, Raquel Martins, Rodrigo Feteira-Santos, Ana Virgolino, Pedro Graça, Maria João Gregório, Osvaldo Santos

Source: Frontiers in Public Health, Vol 10 (2022)

Subject Terms: health promotion, feeding behavior, mass media campaigns, public health, qualitative research, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270

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Relation: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.931116/full; https://doaj.org/toc/2296-2565

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SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Prevalence in the Portuguese Municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia after the First Wave of the Pandemic

Authors: Álvaro de Carvalho, Ana Virgolino, Paula Queirós, Ana Rita Henriques, Helena Canhão, Ana Maria Rodrigues, Veneranda Barbosa, Joana Rodrigues, José Germano de Sousa, Miguel Guimarães

Source: Acta Médica Portuguesa, Vol 35, Iss 6 (2022)

Subject Terms: Antibodies, Viral, COVID-19, Epidemiological Monitoring, Portugal, SARS-CoV-2, Medicine, Medicine (General), R5-920

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Relation: https://actamedicaportuguesa.com/revista/index.php/amp/article/view/17676; https://doaj.org/toc/0870-399X; https://doaj.org/toc/1646-0758

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Dietary Acrylamide Exposure and Risk of Site-Specific Cancer: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Epidemiological Studies

Authors: Tommaso Filippini, Thorhallur I. Halldorsson, Carolina Capitão, Raquel Martins, Konstantinos Giannakou, Janneke Hogervorst, Marco Vinceti, Agneta Åkesson, Karin Leander, Andromachi Katsonouri, Osvaldo Santos, Ana Virgolino, Federica Laguzzi

Source: Frontiers in Nutrition, Vol 9 (2022)

Subject Terms: acrylamide, dietary exposure, neoplasms, carcinoma, systematic review, meta-analysis, Nutrition. Foods and food supply, TX341-641

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Relation: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2022.875607/full; https://doaj.org/toc/2296-861X

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Mental Health and Well-Being of Migrant Populations in Portugal Two Years after the COVID-19 Pandemic

Authors: Violeta Alarcão, Pedro Candeias, Miodraga Stefanovska-Petkovska, Sónia Pintassilgo, Fernando Luís Machado, Ana Virgolino, Osvaldo Santos

Source: Behavioral Sciences, Vol 13, Iss 5, p 422 (2023)

Subject Terms: coronavirus disease 2019, depression, anxiety, social determinants of health, migration, resilience, Psychology, BF1-990

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Relation: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/13/5/422; https://doaj.org/toc/2076-328X

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Fertility, Migration and Acculturation (FEMINA): a research protocol for studying intersectional sexual and reproductive health inequalities

Authors: Violeta Alarcão, Miodraga Stefanovska-Petkovska, Ana Virgolino, Osvaldo Santos, Sofia Ribeiro, Andreia Costa, Paulo Nogueira, Patrícia M. Pascoal, Sónia Pintassilgo, Fernando Luís Machado

Source: Reproductive Health, Vol 16, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2019)

Subject Terms: Sexual and reproductive health inequalities, Intersectionality, Immigrants, Fertility, Acculturation, Survey, Gynecology and obstetrics, RG1-991

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Relation: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12978-019-0795-5; https://doaj.org/toc/1742-4755

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Exploring the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health and Well-Being of Migrant Populations in Europe: An Equity-Focused Scoping Review

Authors: Violeta Alarcão, Ana Virgolino, Miodraga Stefanovska-Petkovska, Júlia Neves

Source: Behavioral Sciences, Vol 12, Iss 10, p 393 (2022)

Subject Terms: coronavirus disease 2019, mental health and well-being, social determinants of health, migration, Psychology, BF1-990

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Relation: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/12/10/393; https://doaj.org/toc/2076-328X

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Reducing Sexual and Reproductive Health Inequities Between Natives and Migrants: A Delphi Consensus for Sustainable Cross-Cultural Healthcare Pathways

Authors: Pedro Candeias, Violeta Alarcão, Miodraga Stefanovska-Petkovska, Osvaldo Santos, Ana Virgolino, Sónia Pintassilgo, Patrícia M. Pascoal, Andreia Silva Costa, Fernando Luís Machado

Source: Frontiers in Public Health, Vol 9 (2021)

Subject Terms: sexual and reproductive health, health equity, migrants, Delphi panels, inequities and inequalities in health, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270

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Relation: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.656454/full; https://doaj.org/toc/2296-2565

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Facing unemployment: study protocol for the implementation and evaluation of a community-based intervention for psychological well-being promotion

Authors: Ana Virgolino, Maria João Heitor, Joana Carreiras, Elisa Lopes, Simon Øverland, Steffen Torp, Dora Guðmundsdóttir, José Pereira Miguel, M. Fátima Reis, Osvaldo Santos

Source: BMC Psychiatry, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2017)

Subject Terms: Psychological well-being, Mental health promotion, Unemployment, Economic crises, Randomized field study, Study protocol, Psychiatry, RC435-571

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Relation: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12888-017-1416-x; https://doaj.org/toc/1471-244X

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