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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Analysis of the quality of hospital information systems audit trails

Autores: João Paulo Borges, João Dinis, João Pinto, João Pinto, Barbosa-Ferreira JM, Joao Perdigao, Joao Perdigao
Link: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/13/84

Audit Trails (AT) are fundamental to information security in order to guarantee access traceability but can also be used to improve Health information System’s (HIS) quality namely to assess how they are used or misused. This paper aims at analysing the existence and quality of AT, describing scenarios in hospitals and making some recommendations to improve the quality of information.
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Healthcare access and the patterns of maternal health care utilization among poor and non-poor women living in urban areas in Portugal

Autores: Alho AM, Alho A, Jeyaseeli L
Link: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=40475

Studies on attitudes and practices are increasingly used but not specifically related to the motivations for the use of reproductive health care among women of fertile age, living in urban areas and in different social contexts.
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Experiences with treating immigrants: A qualitative study in mental health services across 16 European countries

Autores: Itoe MA, Alam MZ, J. Couto, J. Couto, J. de la Fuente, J. de la Fuente, J. Piedade, J. Ferrolho, Jaenson T, J. Ferrolho, Itoe MA, Jackson Y, Jackson Y, Jacob JM, Jacob JM, J. Piedade
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22714866

While there has been systematic research on the experiences of immigrant patients in mental health services within certain European countries, little research has explored the experiences of mental health professionals in the delivery of services to immigrants across Europe. This study sought to explore professionals’ experiences of delivering care to immigrants in districts densely populated with immigrants across Europe.
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Programmes and calls for public health research in European countries

Autores: Craveiro I, Craveiro I
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24189793

Public health research, at population and organizational level, needs to be identified independently within ‘health’ research from biomedicine and life sciences. In PHIRE (Public Health Innovation and Research in Europe), we investigated the extent and character of public health research calls and programmes in European countries.
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Urban Planning and Health Inequities: Looking in a Small-Scale in a City of Cape Verde

Analysis of the quality of hospital information systems audit trails

Healthcare access and the patterns of maternal health care utilization among poor and non-poor women living in urban areas in Portugal

Experiences with treating immigrants: A qualitative study in mental health services across 16 European countries

Programmes and calls for public health research in European countries

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