Manaca, Maria Nélia Joquim (Date of defense: 2011-09-27)
Past and present uses of DDT and pyrethroids have led to their incorporation into humans, mainly through the food chain and sometimes by direct exposure. The present work focuses on establishing the ...
Cash-Gibson, Lucinda (Date of defense: 2020-11-12)
This dissertation aims to understand where, why and how scientific knowledge on health inequalities is produced, why and how some places have strong capacity to produce this, and what determines this ...
Clemente Batalha Pardal, Diana (Date of defense: 2018-05-07)
Although universal and unavoidable, aging does not occur in a uniform way. In this dissertation, we assessed the effects of early life exposure to pro-inflammatory risk factors (air pollution and obesity) ...
Ramada Rodilla, José María (Date of defense: 2014-03-13)
Antecedentes: La traducción directa cuestionarios puede conducir a errores debido a diferencias culturales y lingüísticas. La utilización en estudios científicos de cuestionarios desarrollados en otros ...
Foraster Pulido, Maria (Date of defense: 2013-07-25)
Epidemiological evidence is limited regarding the effects of long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution and to traffic noise on blood pressure (BP). This thesis aims at (a) assessing the ...
Prado Bert, Paula de (Date of defense: 2022-10-17)
L'exposició a factors de risc ambientals durant la vida intrauterina o la infància ha estat relacionada amb un major risc a desenvolupar diverses malalties. Tot i això, els mecanismes biològics subjacents ...
Suades González, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2018-05-15)
Introduction The influence of the environment, and its interplay with genetics, can account for up to half of the variance of neurodevelopmental disorders. In this thesis we reviewed previous literature ...
Ubalde López, Mònica (Date of defense: 2016-04-19)
Background: Research on multimorbidity, the co-occurrence of two or more health-related conditions, has mainly focused on chronic and common diseases in patient and older populations. The prevalence of ...
Ayala García, Amaya (Date of defense: 2023-12-04)
The project focuses on cancer and its effects on work trajectories from a life course perspective, both from a qualitative and quantitative approach. Quantitative analyses were based on a retrospective ...
Llop Gironés, Alba (Date of defense: 2018-11-21)
The present thesis aims to give a critical overview of the health care and health inequalities for the Mozambican case. The thesis is divided into four articles, two of them are quantitative articles ...