The role of community-based participatory research in mental healthpromotion

R E S U M O - A saúde mental é imprescindível ao desenvolvimento social e económico das comunidades. Envolver as comunidades no desenho e desenvolvimento de planos locais de promoção da saúde mental é um importante desafio para garantir mais e melhor saúde mental a cada comunidade. De 2009 a 2012 desenvolveu-se um estudo de caso baseado nos pressupostos de uma investigação participada de base comunitária numa comunidade urbana da região metropolitana de Lisboa, com o objetivo de fundamentar o desenho de um plano local de promoção da saúde mental local. O resultado deste trabalho de parceria, que envolveu habitantes e organizações governamentais e não-governamentais da comunidade urbana, fundamentado na capacitação individual e comunitária da comunidade e dos seus membros, confirmou a necessidade de uma participação ativa e efetiva da comunidade no desenvolvimento de políticas locais de promoção da saúde e concluiu pela definição de 6 eixos estratégicos de intervenção pelo período temporal 2012/2015: uma escola com saúde mental; uma comunidade ativa e segura; uma comunidade solidária e inclusiva; uma comunidade atenta; uma organização económico-laboral promotora de saúde mental; uma senioridade mentalmente saudável.A B S T R A C T – Mental health is essential to community social and economic development. Involving com-munities in the design and development of mental health promotion local plans is a majorchallenge to ensure more and better mental health in each community.From 2009 to 2012 a case study was developed based on the assumptions of a community-based participatory research in an urban community in the metropolitan area of Lisbon, inorder to support the design of a mental health promotion local plan. The result of this partnership, which involved inhabitants and governmental and nongovernmental organizations of the urban community, based on individual and community empowerment of the community and its members, confirmed the need for an active and effective participation of the community in the development of health promotion local policies and concluded by defining six strategic areas of intervention between 2012 and 2015: a school with mental health, an active and safe community, a supportive and inclusive community, a community aware, an organization promoting economic and work mental health, a seniority mentally healthy.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Inducao do Preferencias Alimentares Saudaveis Ensaio de Materiais e Metodos Adequados nos Primeiros Anos da Escola

Facing the plethora of food products, the consumer needs to be prepared to make wise choices which could preserve its own health and the environment. Children are particularly susceptible for acquiring the required abilities necessary to accomplish such objective. This study concentrated on the curriculum development at the early school years, integrated into the official school curriculum. During three years, after the diagnostic of knowledge, interests, behaviors, and representations about food and health of children, teachers and parents, the process of nutrition education was followed in three primary schools. Qualitative and quantitative methodologies were used and formative evaluation was done. Indicators for the process and outcome took into consideration the cognitive and affective domains. The outcome observed on the target-group of this research was much better than in a group of students of the same age, socio-economic level, and geographic area, even at the level of quality of the diet. On the basis of the precipitative observation and the analysis about the factors associated to certain eating behaviors of the children, a manual of nutrition education for the teachers to use with their students was conceivedAvailable from Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Servico de Informacao e Documentacao, Av. D. Carlos I, 126, 1200 Lisboa / FCT - Fundação para o Ciência e a TecnologiaSIGLEPTPortuga

Characterisation of microbial attack on archaeological bone

As part of an EU funded project to investigate the factors influencing bone preservation in the archaeological record, more than 250 bones from 41 archaeological sites in five countries spanning four climatic regions were studied for diagenetic alteration. Sites were selected to cover a range of environmental conditions and archaeological contexts. Microscopic and physical (mercury intrusion porosimetry) analyses of these bones revealed that the majority (68%) had suffered microbial attack. Furthermore, significant differences were found between animal and human bone in both the state of preservation and the type of microbial attack present. These differences in preservation might result from differences in early taphonomy of the bones. © 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved