A5040967276- Health disparities and outcomes
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Global Health Care Issues
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Noise Effects and Management
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Physical Activity and Health
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
Universidade do Porto
2016-2025
i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto
2015-2024
Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
2024
Fundação Técnico Educacional Souza Marques
2024
Polytechnic Institute of Porto
2024
Centro Hospitalar do Baixo Vouga
2023
Administração Regional de Saúde de Lisboa e Vale do Tejo
2009-2023
Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular
2023
Ambiente Italia (Italy)
2022
Tambov State Technical University
2022
Background: The provision of green spaces is an important health promotion strategy to encourage physical activity and improve population health. Green space has be based on the principle equity. This study investigated presence socioeconomic inequalities in geographic accessibility quality across Porto neighbourhoods (Portugal). Methods: Accessibility was evaluated using a Geographic Information System all were audited Public Open Space Tool. Kendall's tau-b correlation coefficients ordinal...
To control the spread of SARS-CoV-2 virus, countries around world implemented lockdowns with varying intensities. Lockdowns, however, have been associated a deterioration mental health, including post-traumatic stress symptoms, anger and anxiety. Exposure to nature might reduce provide relaxation opportunities.Firstly, we aimed determine which sociodemographic, housing lockdown-related characteristics were changes in exposure during COVID-19 lockdown Portugal Spain. Secondly, sought estimate...
Background Despite a concerted policy effort in Europe, social inequalities health are persistent problem. Developing standardised measure of socioeconomic level across Europe will improve the understanding underlying mechanisms and causes inequalities. This facilitate developing, implementing assessing new more effective policies, comparability reproducibility inequality studies among countries. paper presents extension European Deprivation Index (EDI), first developed France, to four other...
<h3>Abstract</h3> <h3>Objective</h3> To assess the association of low socioeconomic status and risk factors for non-communicable diseases (diabetes, high alcohol intake, blood pressure, obesity, physical inactivity, smoking) with loss functioning at older ages. <h3>Design</h3> Multi-cohort population based study. <h3>Setting</h3> 37 cohort studies from 24 countries in Europe, United States, Latin America, Africa, Asia, 1990-2017. <h3>Participants</h3> 109 107 men women aged 45-90 years....
A lower exposure to the natural environment has been hypothesized adversely affect human microbiome and its immunomodulatory capacity. However, underlying effects of this hypothesis are still not understood. We aimed evaluate effect early-life greenness species richness on development allergic diseases asthma in children.A longitudinal study was conducted comprising 1050 children from a population-based birth cohort recruited Portugal. Residential normalized difference vegetation index...
BackgroundFew studies have examined the interactions between individual socioeconomic position and neighbourhood deprivation findings so far are heterogeneous. Using a large sample of diverse cohorts, we investigated interaction effect position, assessed using education, on mortality.MethodsWe did longitudinal multicohort analysis that included six cohort participating in European LIFEPATH consortium: CoLaus (Lausanne, Switzerland), E3N (France), EPIC-Turin (Turin, Italy), EPIPorto (Porto,...
Views on gentrification and intersections with health well-being were explored via semi-structured interviews nineteen residents (≥60 years) in Porto (Portugal). Participants acknowledged that led to noticeable transformations recreational areas, food/beverage establishments, housing, commercial activities. had contrasting views gentrification-induced transformations. Some positive contributions, while others expressed concerns about higher living costs, scarcity of affordable weakening...
Physical activity (PA) has numerous health benefits, but older adults live mostly sedentary lifestyles. The physical and social neighborhood environment may encourage/dissuade PA. In particular, crime lead to feeling unsafe affect adults' willingness be physically active. Yet, research on this topic is still inconclusive. Older population, probably the age group most influenced by environment, been understudied, especially in Southern Europe. study, we aimed analyze association between...
There is considerable literature on the psychological and behavioural benefits of green space. However, less known about its health-promoting effects, as expressed biological markers. Additionally, incorporating biomarkers into pediatric research may help elucidate links between exposures to environmental stressors lifelong health.To measure association geographical accessibility spaces allostatic load (AL), a multi-system dysregulation.We used data from 3108 7-year old children enrolled in...
Socioeconomic inequalities are major health determinants. To monitor and understand them at local level, ecological indexes of socioeconomic deprivation constitute essential tools. In this study, we describe the development updated version European Deprivation Index for Portuguese small-areas (EDI-PT), its spatial distribution evaluate association with a general indicator-all-cause mortality in period 2009-2012. Using data from 2011 Union-Statistics on Income Living Conditions Survey...
Living in deprived neighbourhoods may have biological consequences, but few studies assessed this empirically. We examined the association between neighbourhood deprivation and allostatic load, a marker of wear tear, taking into account individual's socioeconomic position. analysed data from three cohort (CoLaus-Switzerland; EPIPorto-Portugal; Whitehall II-UK) comprising 16,364 participants. defined load using ten biomarkers dysregulated metabolic, cardiovascular, inflammatory systems (body...
Abstract Background Socio-economic inequalities in mortality are well established, yet the contribution of intermediate risk factors that may underlie these relationships remains unclear. We evaluated role multiple modifiable underlying socio-economic-associated and quantified potential impact reducing early all-cause by hypothetically altering socio-economic factors. Methods Data were from seven cohort studies participating LIFEPATH Consortium (total n = 179 090). Using both position (SEP)...
Tackling socioeconomic health inequalities is a big public challenge and ecological deprivation indexes are essential instruments to monitor understand them. In Portugal, no standard index exists, contrasting with other countries. We aimed describe the construction of Portuguese version transnational index, European Deprivation Index.The Index was developed under Townsend theorization deprivation. Using data from Union - Statistics on Income Living Conditions Survey, we obtained an indicator...
The creation of walkable communities constitutes a cost-effective health promotion strategy, as walking is an accessible and free intervention for increasing physical activity health. In this cross-sectional ecological study, we developed walkability index the Porto Metropolitan Area validated it by assessing its association with transportation. Neighborhood was measured using geographic information system resulted from weighted sum residential density, street connectivity, destination-based...
The Carrington event is considered to be one of the most extreme space weather events in observational history within a series magnetic storms caused by interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) from large and complex active region (AR) emerged on solar disk. In this article, we study temporal spatial evolutions source sunspot visual aurorae, compare storm with other basis their evolution. Sunspot drawings Schwabe, Secchi, describe position morphology AR at that time. Visual auroral...
Abstract Background Loss to follow-up is a major challenge for very preterm (VPT) cohorts; attrition associated with social disadvantage and parents impaired children may participate less in research. We investigated the impact of loss on estimated prevalence neurodevelopmental impairment VPT cohort using different methodological approaches. Methods This study includes births < 32 weeks gestational age (GA) from 4 regions UK Portugal participating European birth ( N = 1737 survivors)....
To assess the relationship between socioeconomic deprivation and health-related quality of life in urban neighbourhoods, using a multilevel approach.Of population-based cohort EPIPorto, 1154 georeferenced participants completed 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey. Neighbourhood classes were estimated latent-class analysis. Multilevel models measured clustering contextual effects neighbourhood on physical mental HRQoL.Residents from least deprived neighbourhoods had higher HRQoL. together with...
To analyse the geographical distribution of tuberculosis (TB) in Portugal and estimate association between TB socio-economic deprivation.An ecological study at municipality level using notifications for 2010-2014 was conducted. Spatial Bayesian models were used to calculate smoothed standardised notification rates, identify high- low-risk areas European Deprivation Index (EDI) its component variables.Standardised rates ranged from 4.41 76.44 per 100 000 population. Forty-one high-risk 156...