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Working group set up to implement lung cancer screening pilot project in Terceira and São Migue
Secretaria Regional da Saúde e Segurança Social
Working group set up to implement lung cancer screening pilot project in Terceira and São Migue
Azores are pioneers in health literacy project in schools
Secretaria Regional da Saúde e Desporto
Azores are pioneers in health literacy project in schools
Monitorização da satisfação dos utilizadores das Unidades de Saúde de Ilha dos Açores
Secretaria Regional da Saúde e Desporto
Monitorização da satisfação dos utilizadores das Unidades de Saúde de Ilha dos Açores
April 19, 2024 Working group set up to implement lung cancer screening pilot project in Terceira and São Migue
October 11, 2023 Azores are pioneers in health literacy project in schools
August 22, 2023 Monitorização da satisfação dos utilizadores das Unidades de Saúde de Ilha dos Açores
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Working group set up to implement lung cancer screening pilot project in Terceira and São Migue
Nota de Imprensa
April 19, 2024
Working group set up to implement lung cancer screening pilot project in Terceira and São Migue
The Regional Secretariat for Health and Social Security published today an order setting up a working group to define the technical assumptions for the implementation of a lung cancer screening pilot project on the islands of Terceira and São Miguel. The working group, which will operate with no associated costs, is coordinated by the President of the Azores Oncology Centre and includes the Regional Health Director and Vítor Rodrigues, as an expert. It also comprises members from Island Health Units and Hospitals: Vânia Medeiros, from the São Miguel Island Health Unit; Isabel Cota Silva and João Pedro Silva Toste, from the Terceira Island Health Unit; Carlos José Pavão Matos, from the Divino Espírito Santo Hospital in Ponta Delgada, and Maria Aurora Lino Silva Neves, from the Santo Espírito Hospital on Terceira Island. The existence of this working group is no obstacle to calling in contributors on an individual basis or workers from different services and organisations within the Regional Health Service, as well as from other entities whose contribution is considered relevant to the work in question. The working group is temporary. At the end of its work, it will present the results to the Regional Secretary, Mónica Seidi, along with a proposal to develop the recommended solution. Regarding the creation of this working group, the Secretary for Health and Social Security recalled that "lung cancer is one of the most common cancers in the Region and one of the three leading causes of death." "This is also one of the goals of the 2030 Regional Health Plan, as part of the Regional Strategy to Combat Oncological Diseases. Therefore, it is important to prepare this implementation through a pilot project to test the best solution adapted to our reality," she added.
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Azores are pioneers in health literacy project in schools
Nota de Imprensa
October 11, 2023
Azores are pioneers in health literacy project in schools
The Regional Secretariat for Health and Sport, through the Regional Directorate for Health, and in partnership with the Regional Directorate for Education and Educational Administration, announces the launch of a pilot project in the field of health literacy, following the guidelines of the Schools for Health in Europe (SHE) Network Foundation. SHE is a non-governmental organisation, supported by the World Health Organisation, which promotes the networking of several countries in Europe and Central Asia. Its main goal is to improve the health and knowledge about the health of children and young people in Europe by focusing specifically on schools. The foundation defends the role of school establishments as vehicles for health, which is reflected in the implementation of the Health Promotion School programme. It intends to make this programme widely accepted and recognised in the WHO European Region, recommending the "SHE Approach" when addressing Health Literacy in a school context. This event is a decisive milestone for the Azores, as it marks the moment when the first school in the Region has committed to integrating the "SHE Approach" as a way of implementing its Health Literacy project. The presentation of this project, in which Portugal is one of 46 European cooperating countries, will take place on Friday at the Tomás de Borba Basic Education and Secondary School.
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