investigacao – FNSBS

RESEARCH

Research and Applied Research

Beyond health care services, the Foundation has been developing, since 1986, research and applied research.

A pioneer approach based on preventive medicine, and on community and family nursing…

…with the support from JNICT, FCT, IAMANEH (International Association for Maternal and Neonatal Health), APSSP (Associação para a Promoção da Saúde Pública), Project VIDA, CNLS (Comissão Nacional de Luta Contra a Sida), Direção-Geral da Saúde and Community Programs.

Pursuing also in this way the Primary Objective of Public Health promotion, the research has privileged Epidemiological Studies (in particular in the HIV and Alcoholism fields), and also the promotion of research, such the studies primarily oriented to the prevention of drug's consumption and sexually transmitted diseases.

These studies (many of them published) reflect the Foundation’s pioneering approach based on preventive medicine and family nursing.

This in-depth look, shared and discussed with other professionals and institutions, has been a guide for the Foundation's health education activities and the education of its professionals.

Articles of Research Projects published in Speciality Magazines:

"Inclusão, Escola e Saúde" VALE, Mª do Carmo; Revista Rediteia, pag.55-64.
"HIV/AIDS risk perception, atitudes and sexual behaviour in Portugal" AMARO, Fausto; Frazão, C.; Pereira, M. E.; Teles, L.C. International Journal of SDT & AIDS(2004); 15:56 - 60.
"Doze Histórias de Vida de Consumidores de Drogas - Análise do Percurso Escolar" TELES,Louise C.; Frazão, C.; Pereira, E.; Magalhães, C. Toxicodependência (2003); Vol.9-nº. 2:31 - 44.
"Sexually transmitted diseases and reproductive tract infeccions among contraceptive users" GUERREIRO, Delfim; Gigante, M. A..M.; Teles, L. C. International Journal of Ginecology & Obstetrics 63 Suppl. 1 (1998) S167 - S173.
"Infecção Cervical a Chlamydia Trachomatis em Planeamento Familiar" GUERREIRO, Delfim; Orrego, M. J.; Teles, L. C.; Catry, M. A. Acta Médica Portuguesa 1996; 9: 151 156.
"Sexually behaviour in the city of Lisbon" AMARO, Fausto; Dantas, A. M.; Teles, L.C. International Journal of SDT & AIDS(1995); 6: 35 - 41.
"Prevalence of HIV-2 infection in a family planning clinic in Lisbon" VICTORINO,
Rui M. M.;Guerreiro, D.; Lourenço, M. H.; Ferreira, M. O. S.; Teles, L. C.. International Journal of SDT & AIDS(1992); 3: 281 - 284.