O Enfarte Agudo do Miocárdio (EAM) é uma das principais causas de morte em Portugal. A pessoa com vive um processo transição saúde-doença abrupto impacto significativo no autocuidado. Os cuidados enfermagem têm, imediato e ao longo todo o doença, como intencionalidade potenciar a capacidade Neste registo, as intervenções centradas na educação para saúde são fundamentais possibilitar autonomia a...

W hile working in Uganda, a physician by the name of Denison Parson Burkitt first described the tumor that now carries his name. In 1957, Dr. Burkitt, along with his colleagues, examined a child with what appeared to be swelling along the jaw. After observing a second child with the same clinical presentation, his curiosity prompted him to study hospital records for similar cases. He found that...

The concept of self-care is multidimensional, with many defining elements. This paper describes the origin of this comprehensive concept. It examines the response of the nursing discipline to citizen self-care initiatives and the subsequent effects this response has had on the development of nursing knowledge. The evolution of self-care as a core concept within Canadian health policy is present...

Discontinuous time invariant controllers have been re cently proposed in the literature as an alternative method to stabilize nonholonomic systems These control laws are not Lipschitz continuous at the origin and hence they may use signi cant amount of control e ort especially if the ini tial conditions are close to an equilibrium manifold We seek to remedy this situation by constructing bounde...

There is a lot wrong with global health, and the COVID-19 pandemic highlighting many of these wrongs.1Büyüm AM Kenney C Koris A Mkumba L Raveendran Y Decolonising health: if not now, when?.BMJ Glob Health. 2020; 5e003394Crossref PubMed Scopus (61) Google Scholar The growing calls to decolonise health point imbalances that contribute status quo in knowledge production: insufficient funding for r...

The global health landscape has increasingly come under intense scrutiny in the last two years for diverse reasons, traceable to its colonial and, by extension, Western-dominated structure. From foreign gaze of research, poor diversity composition editorial boards journals, tendency high article processing charges (APCs) journals that exclude contribution researchers from low-income countries, ...

State-dependent changes in breathing are caused by nonrespiratory (tonic) inputs to the brainstem systems that control ventilation. In wakefulness, tonic excitatory inputs include those from the reticular formation, brainstem aminergic systems, and hypothalamic orexin-containing neurons. In non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, decrements in these excitatory inputs can explain the features of br...