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ISPUP NEWSLETTER
FEBRUARY, 2021
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The return of the study Diaries of a Pandemic |
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After a break of a few months, the Diaries of a Pandemic are back. We are asking the Portuguese to answer a set of questions daily again, to help us understand the present and to predict the evolution of the pandemic in the country. |
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Moza-BC: the first cohort of women with breast cancer in Mozambique |
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More than five years ago, ISPUP began working with the main hospitals in Mozambique to create the first longitudinal study of patients with breast cancer in the country. 262 Mozambican women have been followed since. See what we have found. |
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Cancer care must include not only patients but also their family |
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The health care of patients with cancer must consider not only patients, but also their family, highlights a study by ISPUP, published in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship. |
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FCT funds ISPUP projects on COVID-19 and urban housing |
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ISPUP had two projects approved under the Call for Projects for Scientific Research and Technological Development in all Scientific Domains – 2020 by FCT. One will assess the long-term neurological effects of SARS-CoV-2, and the other will measure gentrification and residential insecurity in neighborhoods of the Porto Metropolitan Area. |
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Want to help preserve agrobiodiversity? Participate in the INCREASE project! |
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The European project INCREASE invites the Portuguese to participate in a citizen science experiment, through the planting of different varieties of beans in the gardens of their houses, terraces or balconies. |
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Mariana Brandão: the fight against cancer has no borders |
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Mariana Brandão is a researcher at ISPUP and a PhD student in Public Health at the Universidade do Porto. She helped to implement the Moza-BC cohort: the first longitudinal study of patients with breast cancer in Mozambique. Get to know her. |
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- VISÃO. "COVID-19: the Institute of Public Health relaunches the survey Diaries of a Pandemic" (HERE);
- PÚBLICO. “Doing tests like in Denmark? More than a lot, Portugal must do it well (and quickly"(HERE); “COVID-19: what mistakes do we continue to make after 11 months of the pandemic?” (HERE); “PÚBLICO, ISPUP and INESC TEC launch a new edition of Diaries of a Pandemic” (HERE); "Stenia and Aida, faces of a story that united Portugal and Mozambique against cancer" (HERE);
- ANTENA 1. "The start of the state of emergency renewal process" (HERE).
- OBSERVADOR. “70% of the population will be vaccinated by September” (HERE).
- BBC SPAIN. "Coronavirus in Portugal: how the country has collapsed due to the pandemic and was forced to send seriously ill patients hundreds of kilometres away" (HERE);
- SIC NOTÍCIAS. “COVID-19. Epidemiologist says peak has already been reached in the North and Center” (HERE).
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- 05-03-2021: Technology-based interventions to tackle loneliness in later life: challenges and opportunities (HERE).
- 19-03-2021: Community engagement in the public health response to HIV/AIDS: using community-based research for social change (HERE).
- 30-03-2021: Grupo Tordesillas | COVID-19: Reflections on history and Public Health | Governing in times of crisis (and without crisis) (HERE).
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