https://hdl.handle.net/10216/1885 Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:12:55 GMT 2026-08-07T19:12:55Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/173805 Title: Prescrição cultural Abstract: Art and culture play a fundamental role in several aspects of human life, including health, as evidenced by the World Health Organization's report (Fancourt & Saoirse, 2019). Cultural prescription, which advocates that health professionals can prescribe cultural and artistic experiences to promote well-being, has been adopted and studied in international contexts, due to the growing recognition of its positive impact on different spheres of human life (Jensen et al, 2024). Given the absence of this dimension in the curricular units (UC) of University of Porto courses, the creation of this UC addresses this need, focusing on the development of transversal skills in the area. The multidisciplinary nature of the syllabus, the contact with teachers from different areas in different venues and the translation of theory into lived experiences provide an enriching training opportunity for students, redefining and expanding the learning spaces into the cultural sphere, and fostering a networked collaboration between the university, cultural institutions, and civil society, with significant formative and relational potential. Thus, this experience provides, on the one hand, the interdisciplinary appropriation of scientific knowledge on the relationship between art and health and the relevance of cultural prescription for the individual and for society and, on the other, personal and attitudinal development, nourished by content and methods based on humanistic, relational and collaborative perspectives, experienced in workshops and in the development of cultural prescription projects. The transdisciplinary nature of the course has also fostered scientific, disciplinary and pedagogical synergies between lecturers, through the joint preparation and orientation of sessions, in an innovative partnership between higher education lecturers, scientists and artists. Description: A arte e a cultura desempenham um papel fundamental em diversos aspetos da vida humana, nomeadamente na saúde, como evidencia o relatório da Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS) (Fancourt & Saoirse, 2019). A prescrição cultural, que preconiza que profissionais de saúde possam prescrever experiências culturais e artísticas para promoção do bem-estar, tem vindo a ser adotada e estudada no contexto internacional, justamente pelo reconhecimento crescente do seu impacto positivo em diferentes esferas da vida humana (Jensen et. al., 2024). Dada a ausência desta dimensão nas unidades curriculares (UC) dos cursos da Universidade do Porto, a criação desta UC vem colmatar este hiato, orientando-se para o desenvolvimento de competências transversais a partir deste domínio. O cariz multidisciplinar do plano de estudos, o contacto com docentes de diferentes áreas em lugares diversificados e a vivência prática da teoria configuram uma oportunidade formativa enriquecedora para os estudantes, redefinindo e estendendo os lugares de aprendizagem à esfera da cultura, promovendo um trabalho em rede entre universidade, espaços culturais e sociedade civil, com potencial formativo e relacional significativo. Neste sentido, esta experiência proporciona, por um lado, a apropriação interdisciplinar de conhecimento científico sobre a relação entre arte e saúde e sobre a relevância da prescrição cultural para a pessoa e para a sociedade e, por outro, o desenvolvimento pessoal e atitudinal, alimentado por conteúdos e métodos alicerçados numa perspetiva humanista, relacional e colaborativa, ensaiada em workshops e na elaboração de projetos de prescrição cultural. A transdisciplinaridade da UC tem sido também promotora de sinergias científicas, disciplinares e pedagógicas entre os docentes, através da preparação e dinamização conjunta das sessões por elementos de diferentes unidades orgânicas e/ou de diferentes campos de atuação profissional, numa parceria inovadora entre docentes do ensino superior, cientistas e artistas. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10216/173805 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/173820 Title: Saúde, bem-estar e arquitetura Abstract: Although the space where people experience their lives influences their health, the professionals directly and indirectly involved in designing health promotion programmes and policies, and those who design these spaces, often ignore these relationships by working in isolation. In order to promote interdisciplinary dialogue and cooperation, we designed the Health, Well-being and Architecture curricular unit. The learning objectives of this course were to identify the main environmental and social determinants of health and to develop solutions for health-promoting spaces, integrating the basic concepts of public health and architecture. To this end, it combined theoretical and practical sessions, taught by lecturers from the fields of medicine, architecture, landscape design and geography, with field visits to green spaces and buildings and housing developments of different scales, identifying health needs and the relationship with the environment and opportunities for promoting a healthier environment. It also organised two seminars with international speakers and a public presentation of the work at the partner organisation (Domus Social). There were 101 applications for the three editions. The 61 participants successfully completed the course, getting actively involved in all the activities and showing a high degree of autonomy and commitment in the group exercises. More specifically, organised into multidisciplinary groups, they drew up diagnoses of the health situation of inhabitants in buildings managed by Domus Social, identifying proximal and distal determinants, and designed proposals for intervention at the levels of urban, collective and private space in the complexes under study. This interdisciplinary experience was positively received by the students, who recognised it as highly relevant to their professional training and personal development, and the exercises, developed in project-based learning, which were frankly positive, allowed them to think about health and architecture from a broad and articulated perspective Description: Ainda que o espaço onde as pessoas experienciam a sua vida influencie a sua saúde, os profissionais direta e indiretamente envolvidos no desenho de programas e políticas de promoção da saúde, e os que desenham estes espaços, frequentemente ignoram estas relações, trabalhando isoladamente. De forma a promover o diálogo e a cooperação interdisciplinar, desenhámos a unidade curricular de Saúde, Bem-estar e Arquitetura. Este curso teve como objetivos de aprendizagem a identificação dos principais determinantes ambientais e sociais da saúde e o desenvolvimento de soluções para espaços promotores de saúde, integrando os conceitos básicos de saúde pública e arquitetura. Para tal, combinou sessões teórico-práticas, lecionadas por docentes das áreas da medicina, arquitetura, paisagismo e geografia, com visitas de campo a espaços verdes e a edifícios e conjuntos habitacionais, de diferentes escalas, identificando necessidades de saúde e relação com o meio e oportunidades para a promoção de um ambiente mais saudável. Promoveu ainda dois seminários com palestrantes internacionais e uma apresentação pública dos trabalhos na entidade parceira (Domus Social). As três edições realizadas contaram com 101 candidaturas. Os 61 participantes completaram com aproveitamento a unidade curricular, envolvendo-se ativamente em todas as atividades e revelando um elevado grau de autonomia e empenho nos exercícios em grupo. Mais especificamente, organizados em grupos multidisciplinares, elaboraram diagnósticos da situação de saúde de habitantes em edifícios geridos pela Domus Social, identificando determinantes proximais e distais, e desenharam propostas para intervir aos níveis do espaço urbano, coletivo e privado dos conjuntos em estudo. Esta experiência interdisciplinar foi positivamente recebida pelos estudantes, reconhecendo-lhe elevada relevância para a sua formação profissional e desenvolvimento pessoal, e os exercícios, desenvolvidos em project-based learning, francamente positivos, permitiram o pensamento da saúde e da arquitetura numa perspetiva ampla e articulada. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10216/173820 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/167702 Title: O ensino da relação médico-doente em Psicologia Médica: um modelo práxico Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10216/167702 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/167713 Title: NeuroMed2: Neurociências e meditação para estudantes de Medicina Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10216/167713 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/167723 Title: O impacto da pandemia na minha prática pedagógica Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10216/167723 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/165828 Title: Cardiopulmonary, Metabolic and Perceived Exertion Characteristics Among Portuguese Firefighters Abstract: Background: Firefighting is a strenuous occupation that requires firefighters to be in excellent physical condition. However, some of these professionals are not sufficiently physically fit for duty, negatively impacting their performance. Objective: To cardiopulmonary characterize Portuguese firefighters at different exercise intensities to clarify if their physical fitness profile is adequate to overcome their occupational activities demands. Methodology: Twenty-four healthy Portuguese firefighters performed an intermittent running protocol (with 1 km·h1 increments and 30 s intervals) on a treadmill. Cardiorespiratory variables and core temperature were measured continuously during the exercise, while blood lactate and rating of perceived exertion were assessed during the rest periods between steps. Results: The increase in velocity along the running protocol resulted in higher values of oxygen uptake (41.5 ± 8.5 mL/min/kg), blood lactate (13.5 ± 4.6 mmol/L) and rating of perceived exertion (19 ± 1). However, there was stabilization of the respiratory quotient and heart rate from heavy to severe intensities. Discussion/Conclusions: Portuguese firefighters have a minimum level of cardiopulmonary fitness to perform their professional duties. However, given the high demands on the cardiopulmonary function of firefighting, it is essential that firefighters participate in regular training programs to maintain and develop cardiopulmonary physical fitness. (c) The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10216/165828 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/165832 Title: Modelling Physical Fatigue Through Physiological Monitoring Within High-Risk Professions Abstract: Physical fatigue is not only a tiredness condition but can also be a symptom of various diseases or a precursor of workplace accidents and incidents. High-risk professions like firefighters and military personnel are more frequently exposed to it and its consequences. To contribute to current research efforts towards physical fatigue quantification approaches for these professionals, the current work aimed to test a previously developed machine learning algorithm based on physiological monitoring on a dataset of soldiers engaged in an incremental running protocol. Personal characteristics and signals from heart rate, breathing rate and core temperature were recorded from participants and used to extract 20 features. These were used as inputs to an XGBoosted algorithm to classify four levels of physical fatigue: low, moderate, heavy and severe. Outcomes showed an overall accuracy of 85% and accuracies of 100 and 92% for detecting the low and heavy levels. Also, the importance of individualised monitoring and the need for more than one physiological indicator to accurately characterise the subject physical fatigue status were demonstrated. Overall, the results confirm the model's contribution to current fatigue detection methods. Future studies will be oriented to test its validity within a bigger sample while assessing more occupational activities. (c) The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10216/165832 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/167399 Title: Onde Mora a Saúde? Mês da Arquitetura da Maia Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10216/167399 2023-04-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/157638 Title: A análise sobre o processo e os resultados a partir da visão dos amigos críticos Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10216/157638 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/82410 Title: Diagnosing death by drowning through the analysis of blood markers by inductively coupled plasma: mass spectrometry Abstract: Investigation of bodies recovered out of water is a complex but frequent medico-legal task. The key problem is if the victim died due to drowning or by the means of other cause and placed in water. At the moment, the diagnosis of drowning is based on some unspecific findings during autopsy (lung distension and the presence of froth in upper airways and lungs) and the results of laboratory tests. Our project aimed to evaluate the usefulness of the determination by ICP-MS of trace elements (TE) in blood of the cardiac cavities of corpses found in aquatic environment as a tool to increase the certainty of the diagnostic of death by drowning. Blood samples were collected from 18 cadavers found in water, from 2006-2008, in Oporto area. The advantage of ICP-MS compared to other instrumental analytical techniques is clear and it proved to be useful. It allowed us to perform a multielemental analysis of blood, and the results highlight the importance of this kind of approach, compared to previous studies where we are dependent on the results of a single TE. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10216/82410 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/147446 Title: Sob o signo de Vesálio: Abel Sampaio Tavares na tradição anatómica da Escola do Porto Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10216/147446 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/60831 Title: Health-Related Quality of Life in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Description: This book is dedicated to inflammatory bowel disease, and the authors discuss the advances in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease, as well as several new parameters involved in the etiopathogeny of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, such as intestinal barrier dysfunction and the roles of TH 17 cells and IL 17 in the immune response in inflammatory bowel disease. The book also focuses on several relevant clinical points, such as pregnancy during inflammatory bowel disease and the health-related quality of life as an end point of the different treatments of the diseases. Finally, advances in management of patients with inflammatory bowel disease are discussed, especially in a complete review of the recent literature. Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10216/60831 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/125336 Title: Estratégias alimentares e nutricionais para a população idosa portuguesa: contributo do projeto Nutrition UP 65 Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10216/125336 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/124124 Title: Real time fatigue assessment: A short review evidencing the usage of safety monitoring systems with military enforcement Abstract: Fatigue decreases performance and physical strength causing incidents and accidents in operational settings. During military operations, soldiers encounter extreme conditions, which combined lead to a fatigue status that can cause serious physiological impairments, decreasing performance on the battlefield. Comprehensive studies in realistically stressful environments are essential to expand the knowledge regarding the consequences of real-life stress exposure and facilitate the development of operationally-useful techniques. This review, as part of a project for the development of a safety system based on physiological monitoring, aims to obtain relevant information about fatigue assessment through multiple physiological parameters in the military context, to focus on determining the associations between fatigue and physiological response in order to plan adequate interventions to prevent related negative consequences. Five databases (Scopus, PubMed, Science Direct, Medline and Web of Science) are used to develop a data search based on the crosswords of keywords. A total of 12 publications are included in the review. Topics such as sample characteristics, assessment context, purposes and findings of each study, parameters and equipment used, are analyzed. (c) Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10216/124124 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/142324 Title: Comunicação digital Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10216/142324 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/112073 Title: OpenEHR Based Systems and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Abstract: The concerns about privacy and personal data protection resulted in reforms of the existing legislation in European Union (EU). The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) aims to reform the existing measures on the topic of personal data protection of the European Union citizens, with a strong input on the rights and freedoms of people and in the establishment of rules for the processing of personal data. OpenEHR is a standard that embodies many principles of interoperable and secure software for electronic health records. This work aims to understand to what extent the openEHR standard can be considered a solution for the requirements needed by GDPR. A list of requirements for a Hospital Information Systems (HIS) compliant with GDPR and an identification of openEHR specifications was made. The requirements were categorized and compared with the specifications. The requirements identified for the systems were matched with the openEHR specifications, which result in 16 requirements matched with openEHR. All the specifications identified matched at least one requirement. OpenEHR is a solution for the development of HIS that reinforce privacy and personal data protection, ensuring that they are contemplated in the system development. The institutions can secure that their Eletronic Health Record are compliant with GDPR while safeguarding the medical data quality and, as a result, the healthcare delivery. Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10216/112073 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/106923 Title: ARFIMA-GARCH modeling of HRV: Clinical application in acute brain injury Abstract: In the last decade, several HRV based novel methodologies for describing and assessing heart rate dynamics have been proposed in the literature with the aim of risk assessment. Such methodologies attempt to describe the non-linear and complex characteristics of HRV, and hereby the focus is in two of these characteristics, namely long memory and heteroscedasticity with variance clustering. The ARFIMA-GARCH modeling considered here allows the quantification of long range correlations and time-varying volatility. ARFIMA-GARCH HRV analysis is integrated with multimodal brain monitoring in several acute cerebral phenomena such as intracranial hypertension, decompressive craniectomy and brain death. The results indicate that ARFIMA-GARCH modeling appears to reflect changes in Heart Rate Variability (HRV) dynamics related both with the Acute Brain Injury (ABI) and the medical treatments effects. (c) 2017, Springer International Publishing AG. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10216/106923 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/142363 Title: Aptidões básicas em comunicação clínica Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10216/142363 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/125239 Title: Analysis of Sequential Transverse B-Mode Ultrasound Images of the Carotid Artery Bifurcation Abstract: The study presented here addresses segmentation methodologies applied to Doppler ultrasound images of the carotid bifurcation acquired as a sequence of 2D ultrasound transverse images. Initial identification of image elements representing transversal cuts of the artery followed by parameter analysis enables a fast methodology for lumen and artery wall identification and segmentation for the complete image sequence. Different arterial geometries, along with the presence of plaque, artefacts and speckle noise, can modify the expected circular shapes of the arteries making identification extremely difficult. Initial identified parameters are crucial for the analysis of image behavior across the bifurcation suggesting methodologies for image correction and irregularity detection on the artery representation. Statistical analysis of the accuracy of the bifurcation modelling from transverse image segmentation validates the methodology results as compared to results from medical manual segmentation and results from segmentation of longitudinal Doppler ultrasound images. (c) Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10216/125239 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/90511 Title: Paraquat: Molecular mechanisms of neurotoxicity and its relation with autophagy Abstract: Paraquat (1,1'-dimethyl-4,4'-bipyridilium dichloride; PQ) is an effective and widely used herbicide in Asiatic and American countries with a claimed safety record when appropriately applied to eliminate weeds. However, over the last decades a growing body of epidemiologic evidence has been linking longterm/low-dose PQ exposure to the development of Parkinsons disease (PD). PQ is well known for its ability to induce oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, -synuclein fibrillation and neuronal cell loss. More recently, more attention has been given to the role of autophagy in several major neurodegenerative diseases and the influence of environmental toxins in this pathway. This chapter provides an overview of the main mechanisms of neurotoxicity of PQ with an emphasis in the autophagic process and its possible relationship to PD. (c) Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10216/90511 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z