Literacia em saúde e alimentação saudável : os novos produtos e a escolha dos alime

Resumo Com o objectivo de contribuir para entender o nível de literacia em saúde dos consumidores e verificar a relação entre esta e o comportamento no consumo de alimentos (consumerismo), foi efectuado um inquérito por questionário que incluiu a tradução para Português do Newest Vital Sign,© (2008) Pfizer Inc. Used with permission (NVS). Este instrumento foi aplicado a uma amostra estratificada, de 384 indivíduos com mais de 15 anos de idade, da região da Grande Lisboa, distribuída de acordo com o Census 2001. A nível de literacia em saúde foi avaliado através da versão Portuguesa do NVS que consiste numa “ferramenta” onde se fornece aos inquiridos uma série de informações relacionadas com a saúde, nomeadamente a informação nutricional constante de um rótulo, devendo estes fazer a demonstração das suas capacidades de utilização dessa informação respondendo a questões. Dos resultados recolhidos verifica-se que existe uma relação directa entre a literacia em saúde e a escolaridade, constatou-se ainda uma associação entre a literacia em saúde e o comportamento consumerista no consumo de alimentos assim como com um comportamento de consumo pautado pela consciência ecológica. De salientar ainda a relação estatisticamente significativa entre a literacia em saúde e a neofilia alimentar. No entanto os indivíduos mais idosos, com menores habilitações literárias e de menor rendimento são mais neofóbicos Não existe relação entre o género e a literacia em saúde. O NVS, agora disponível na língua portuguesa, constitui num contexto de promoção da saúde, uma ajuda em termos de Saúde Pública. Abstract Aiming to contribute to the understanding of consumer’s health literacy, and to verify the relation between health literacy and consumerism in food consumption, a validation of an inquiry, that include the Portuguese version of the Newest Vital Sign, © (2008) Pfizer Inc. Used with permission (NVS) was performed. Afterwards this epidemiologic instrument was applied to a convenience sample (384 individuals, over 15 years old) of the population of “Grande Lisboa”, distributed accordingly to Census 2001. Health literacy was evaluated by the Portuguese version of NVS and consists in a tool by which a number of health-related information, in this case nutritional information written in a food label, is used to demonstrate one’s ability to use that information answering to questions. From the results it is possible to verify that there is a close relation between health literacy and general literacy (school years), it was also possible to observe an association among health literacy, consumer behaviour and ecological consumption of food products. It is of relevance the fact that an association between health literacy and food neophilia is statistically significant. Nevertheless older individuals, with lower health literacy and income are the most neophobic. There is no statistical association between gender and health literacy. The Portuguese version of NVS is an essential tool to evaluate the population health literacy in a hea

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Tese de Mestrado em Gestão do Território Ambiente Recursos Naturais

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“One cannot analyse a legal concept outside the economic and socio-cultural context in which it was applied” – such is the longstanding thesis of António Manuel Hespanha. I argue that Hespanha’s line of argument relative to legal concepts is also applicable, mutatis mutandis, to legal agents: the magistrates, advocates, notaries, solicitors and clerks who lived and exercised their professions in a given time and place. The question, then, is how to understand the actions of these individuals in particular contexts – more specifically in late 18th century and 19th century Goa. The main goal of the present thesis was to comprehend how westernized and Catholic Goan elite of Brahman and Chardó origin who provided the majority of Goan legal agents used Portuguese law to their own advantage. It can be divided into five key points. The first one is the importance of the Constitutional liberalism regime (with all the juridical, judicial, administrative and political changes that it has brought, namely the parliamentary representation) and its relations with the perismo – a local political and ideological tendency nurtured by Goan native Catholic elite. It was explored in the chapter 2 of this thesis. The second key point is the repeated attempts made by Goan native Catholic elite to implement the jury system in local courts. It was studied in the chapter 3. Chapter 4 aims to understand the participation of the native Catholic elite in the codification process of the uses and traditions of the indigenous peoples in New Conquests territory. The fourth key point is the involvement of those elites not only in the conflict of civil and ecclesiastical jurisdictions but also in the succession of the Royal House of Sunda. It was analyzed in the chapter 5. The functions of an advocate could be delegated to someone who, though lacking a law degree, possessed sufficient knowledge to perform this role satisfactorily. Those who held a special licence to practice law were known as provisionários (from provisão, or licence, as opposed to the letrados, or lettered). In the Goa of the second half of the 18th century and the 19th century, such provisionários were abundant, the vast majority coming from the native Catholic elite. The characteristics of those provisionários, the role played by the Portuguese letrados in Goa and the difficult relations between both groups were studied in the chapter 6.