...Bárbara Pedrosa; Graça Cardoso; Sofia Azeredo-Lopes; Manuel Gonçalves-Pereira; Deborah Oyine Aluh; Ugnė Grigaitė; Margarida Santos-Dias; Manuela Silva; José Caldas-de-Almeida Introduction: Few studies analysed the impact of COVID-19 on supported accommodations (SAs) for people with serious mental...

... priorities and mobilize resources for surveillance, prevention, and control. In Portugal, the Directorate-General of Health (DGS) is responsible for EI and publishes a weekly public health threat report (RONDA). Changes in threats in regular threat reports since COVID-19 have not been previously described...

...João Tavares; Daniela Figueiredo; Lígia Passos; Leila Sobrinho; Elaine Souza; Larissa Pedreira Background: COVID-19 has currently well-described signs and symptoms. However, older adults often present with an atypical condition, which can confuse and delay diagnosis and treatment. Summary...

...Sylwia Frączek; Lara Noronha Ferreira Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all societies, and its effects relate not only to physical health but also to mental health, social relations, and the economic situation of the population all over the world. This research aims at studying...

.... Ensuring the most significant protection for this age group is essential. Methods: This is an ecological study of 10 Latin American and the Caribbean countries to study protecting children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the information from UNICEF, a coverage analysis was done...

...Kaltoum Boutahar; Said Ihbour; Karima Hadi; Kamal Kaoutar; Ahmed Chetoui; Abdesalam El Kardoudi; Mohamed Najimi; Fatiha Chigr Introduction: The widespread lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic was insured by Moroccan authorities in early 2020 to preserve the health of citizens. The lockdown...

... e na sua prevalência na população estudada. São necessários mais estudos para aferir se este é um fenómeno específico do período estudado. Palavras Chave Burnout, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Saúde pública, Internato médico Burnout COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 Public health Medical residency...

...; Alexandre Abrantes Background: The COVID-19 pandemic may affect youth’s physical and mental well-being, partially because of the countries’ rules to contain the virus from spreading. However, there is still uncertainty about the impact of physical distancing on youth’s mental health. We aimed to estimate...

... differences influence risk perception during a pandemic crisis? Here, we investigated how age influenced predicted risk during the COVID-19 emergency state in Portugal. We show that time-projected estimations (e.g., appraisals based on ‘now’ vs. ‘in two weeks’ time’, or ‘in four weeks’ time’) of both risk...

...Joana Seringa; Sérgio Pedreiras; Maria João Freitas; Rosa Valente de Matos; João Rocha; Christopher Millett; Rui Santana Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has posed greater financial pressure on health systems and institutions that had to respond to the specific needs of COVID-19 patients while...

...Ana Aguiar; Isabel Maia; Marta Pinto; Raquel Duarte Introduction: The current worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has been having a considerable impact not only on health but also on the economy of societies, emphasizing food insecurity as a significant public health concern. Aim: The objective...

...Héloïse Lucaccioni; Cristina Costa; Mariana Perez Duque; Sooria Balasegaram; Rita Sá Machado Introduction: Health professionals face higher occupational exposure to SARS-CoV-2. We aimed to estimate the risk of COVID-19 test positivity in health professionals compared to non-health professionals...

...Diana Portela; Duarte Vital Brito; Hugo Monteiro Digital technologies revolutionized the way we dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic and outstood the obvious societal change in the information age. Currently, data are an essential element of any health institution. Their use has the potential...

...Manuela Hoedl; Doris Eglseer; Silvia Bauer Background/Aims: So far detailed insights into the nursing staff’s COVID-19 symptoms, testing, and results are missing. Therefore, this study aimed to describe the setting and regional differences in the occurrence of COVID-19 among nursing staff...

...Beatriz Simões Vala; Mariana Lopes Costa; Joana Aquino; Bilhota Xavier Introduction: The novel coronavirus pandemic poses a challenge to healthcare systems’ balance. Since children apparently have milder disease courses, COVID-19 guidelines were not easily adapted to pediatrics. We intend...

..., quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. COVID-19 Health ethics Vaccination Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19...

... of standard vaccinations for children under the age of 15 does not violate the right to private life as protected under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Although the outcome of this ruling is not surprising, it may also have consequences relating to the controversy of mandatory COVID-19...

... transmission to healthcare workers (HCW) in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Our hospital center identified its first COVID-19 confirmed case on March 9, 2020, in a 6-day hospitalized patient. The first confirmed COVID-19 case in a HCW happened 3 days later, in a nurse with a probable epidemiological link related...

... health. Excess deaths recorded without a COVID-19 diagnosis are called excess mortality without COVID-19 (EM non-COVID-19). This study aims to estimate the EM non-COVID in the 7-month period after the first registered Covid-19 death. Methods: The following 2 methods were used to estimate the excess...

...Marta Moniz; Patrícia Soares; Carla Nunes Background: At the end of January 2021, Portugal had over 700,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases. The burden of COVID-19 varies between and within countries due to differences in contextual and individual factors, transmission rates, and clinical and public...