Urban Planning and Health Inequities: Looking in a Small-Scale in a City of Cape Verde

Autores: Mateos-Hernández L, Mateos-Hernández L, Carvalho AP, Centeno-Lima SC, Alho AM, Barbara McPake, Matee M
Link: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0142955

The lack of high-quality data to support evidence-based policies continues to be a concern in African cities, which present marked social, economic and cultural disparities that may differently impact the health of the groups living in different urban contexts. This study explores three urban units—formal, transition and informal—of the capital of Cape Verde, in terms of overweight/obesity, cardiometabolic risk, physical activity and other aspects related to the urban environment.
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Pharmaceutical services cost analysis using time-driven activity based costing in a sample of Portuguese community pharmacies

Autores: Baptista-Fernandes T, Barbosa-Ferreira JM, Almeida LM

Pharmacists have experienced an expansion of their role in the last decades, developing the scope of
services offered. One challenge that pharmacists face when obtaining payment from patients is establishing a price for the service that is sufficient to support it, and is perceived as a good value by the patient. However, little research has been conducted on the costs of pharmaceutical services (PS) in Portugal. To accurately calculate costs it is important to use a costing methodology that supports itself on real-world data. This study describes the development and application of a Time-driven Activity Based Costing (TDABC) model in a sample of pharmacies in Portugal, with the objective of calculating the cost of the PS provided.
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Assisting consumers in self-medication: reflections on the role of support staff in community pharmacy

Autores: Colebunders R, Colebunders R, Barbara McPake, Colaco Lourenco Viegas CA

Community pharmacies are often the first port of call for consumers with minor illness. In Portugal assisting self-medication in this setting—by supplying non-prescription medicines (NPM) or assessing symptoms—involves pharmacists and support staff (technicians and assistants). There is a paucity of research on support staff roles. This paper, which is part of a larger study, reports the perceived roles of pharmacy staff in assisting consumers in self-medication.
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How can a country learn from the experience of another? Expanding nurses’ scope of practice in Portugal: Lessons from England

Autores: Alves-Pires C, Bruce Russell
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25533548

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The future of novel diagnostics in medical mycology.

Autores: Almeida AP, Arevalo J
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25418735

Several fungal diseases have become serious threats to human health and life, especially upon the advent of human immunodeficiency virus/AIDS epidemics and of other typical immunosuppressive conditions of modern life. Accordingly, the burden posed by these diseases and, concurrently, by intensive therapeutic regimens against these diseases has increased worldwide.
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Urban Planning and Health Inequities: Looking in a Small-Scale in a City of Cape Verde

Pharmaceutical services cost analysis using time-driven activity based costing in a sample of Portuguese community pharmacies

Assisting consumers in self-medication: reflections on the role of support staff in community pharmacy

How can a country learn from the experience of another? Expanding nurses’ scope of practice in Portugal: Lessons from England

The future of novel diagnostics in medical mycology.

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