O Grupo de Trabalho de Estatísticas de Saúde - GTES foi criado no âmbito do Conselho Superior de Estatística (Secção Permanente de Estatísticas Sociais), com o objetivo de identificar e redefinir o conteúdo do sistema de informação das estatísticas oficiais de saúde nos domínios “estado de saúde e seus determinantes”, “cuidados de saúde”, e “causas de morte”. Para atingir esse objetivo o Grupo, em primeiro luga...
Propomos a introdução do método de diferenças finitas como tópico a ser abordado na disciplina de mecânica quântica de um curso de graduação em física. O método é suficientemente simples para ser introduzido e exemplificado em seis horas de aula, permitindo a obten cão de resultados tanto qualitativamente corretos como de alta precisão quantitativa. Devido a sua grande aplicabilidade, seu entendimento por parte...
Background: Chlamydia trachomatis is one of the most disseminated human pathogens, for which no vaccine is available yet. Understanding the impact of the host pressure on pathogen antigens is crucial, but so far it was only assessed for highly-restricted geographic areas. We aimed to evaluate the evolutionary picture of the chlamydial key antigen (MOMP), which is one of the leading multi-subunit vaccine candida...
The experience reported in an earlier Eurosurveillance issue on a fast method to evaluate the impact of the 2003 heatwave on mortality in Portugal, generated a daily mortality surveillance system (VDM) that has been operating ever since jointly with the Portuguese Heat Health Watch Warning System. This work describes the VDM system and how it evolved to become an automated system operating year-round, and shows...
In clinical practice, the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is often determined with serum creatinine. However, studies have shown cystatin C to be a better parameter for the diagnosis of impaired renal function. We compared GFR estimated by plasma cystatin C with GFR estimated by serum creatinine in a sample of 50 pediatric renal transplant recipients and 24 healthy children. The correlation between GFR estimat...
Neste segundo artigo sobre sistemas hamiltonianos, apresentamos o método da explosão (blow-up) para a determinação da natureza de pontos fixos (pontos de equilíbrio) degenerados. Aplicamos o método a dois modelos hamiltonianos com um e dois graus de liberdade, respectivamente. Primeiramente, analisamos um sistema formado por um pêndulo simples submetido a um torque externo constante. Em seguida, consideramos um...
Malaria is undoubtedly the world's most devastating parasitic disease, affecting 300 to 500 million people every year. Some cases of Plasmodium falciparum infection progress to the deadly forms of the disease responsible for 1 to 3 million deaths annually. P. falciparum-infected erythrocytes adhere to host receptors in the deep microvasculature of several organs. The cytoadhesion of infected erythrocytes to pla...
In the present study, 470 children less than 72 months of age and presenting acute diarrhea were examined to identify associated enteropathogenic agents. Viruses were the pathogens most frequently found in stools of infants with diarrhea, including 111 cases of rotavirus (23.6% of the total diarrhea cases) and 30 cases of adenovirus (6.3%). The second group was diarrheogenic Escherichia coli (86 cases, 18.2%), ...
Mine wastes and sediments from the ancient copper mine of Tinoca (Alto Alentejo – Portugal) were submitted to a sequential extraction with the objective to establish distribution patterns for copper (Cu), iron (Fe), zinc (Zn) and lead (Pb) in different specific phases: amorphous oxides; rystalline oxides; sulphides and silicates. The results of the sequential extraction showed that Cu and Fe were pr...
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