Health literacy, a more complex concept than knowledge, is a required capacity to obtain, understand, integrate and act on health information [1], in order to enhance individual and community health, which is defined by different levels, according to the autonomy and personal capacitation in decision making [2]. Medium levels of Health literacy in an adolescent population were found in a study conducted in 2013/2014, being higher in sexual and reproductive health and lower in substance use. It was also noticed that the higher levels of health literacy were in the area adolescents refer to have receipt more health information. The health literacy competence with higher scores was communication skills, and the lower scores were in the capacity to analyze factors that influence health. Higher levels were also found in younger teenagers, but in a higher school level, confirming the importance of health education in these age and development stage. Adolescents seek more information in health professionals and parents, being friends more valued as a source information in older adolescents, which enhance the importance of peer education mainly in older adolescents [3]. As a set of competences based on knowledge, health literacy should be developed through education interventions, encompassing the cultural and social context of individuals, since the society, culture and education system where the individual is inserted can define the way the development and enforcement of the health literacy competences [4]. The valued sources of information should be taken into account, as well as needs of information in some topics referred by adolescents in an efficient health education. Schizophrenia is a serious and chronic mental illness which has a profound effect on the health and well-being related with the well-known nature of psychotic symptoms. The exercise has the potential to improve the life of people with schizophrenia improving physical health and alleviating psychiatric symptoms. However, most people with schizophrenia remains sedentary and lack of access to exercise programs are barriers to achieve health benefits. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of exercise on I) the type of intervention in mental health, II) in salivary levels of alpha-amylase and cortisol and serum levels of S100B and BDNF, and on III) the quality of life and selfperception of the physical domain of people with schizophrenia. The sample consisted of 31 females in long-term institutions in the Casa de Saúde Rainha Santa Isabel, with age between 25 and 63, and with diagnosis of schizophrenia according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR). Physical fitness was assessed by the six-minute walk distance test (6MWD). Biological variables were determined by ELISA (Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay). Psychological variables were assessed using SF-36, PSPP-SCV, RSES and SWLS tests. Walking exercise has a positive impact on physical fitness (6MWD -p = 0.001) and physical components of the psychological test...

ResumoPartindo do trabalho de diagnóstico da população sénior de Vila Nova de Gaia, enquadrado na elaboração do Plano Gerontológico deste concelho, o presente artigo pretende discutir a diversidade de perfis dos seniores inquiridos e, deste modo, demonstrar que a velhice está longe de ser uma etapa da vida homogénea. Conhecer esta heterogeneidade é fundamental para os atores políticos com responsabilidades de intervenção social, já que potencia o desenvolvimento de respostas sociais adequadas a essa diversidade. Com o objetivo de contribuir para a adequação das respostas ao perfil da população, e recorrendo a procedimentos de análise estatística como a análise de correspondências múltiplas e de clusters, identificaram-se três perfis principais de seniores: velhice com recursos privilegiados, velhice com recursos remediados e velhice com exclusão e retraimento.Palavras-chave: envelhecimento; perfil sociodemográfico; plano gerontológico; análise de correspondênci-as múltiplas; análise de clusters.

Centrality measures are used in network science to assess the centrality of vertices or the position they occupy in a network. There are a large number of centrality measures according to some criterion. However, the generalizations of the most well-known centrality measures for weighted networks, degree centrality, closeness centrality and betweenness centrality have solely assumed the edge weights to be constants. This article proposes a methodology to generalize degree, closeness and betweenness centralities taking into account the variability of edge weights in the form of closed intervals (interval-weighted networks, IWN). We apply our centrality measures approach to two real-world IWN. The first is a commuter network in mainland Portugal, between the 23 NUTS 3 Regions. The second focuses on annual merchandise trade between 28 European countries, from 2003 to 2015.

Os métodos de cálculo de tarifas do transporte por ônibus utilizados no Brasil, em sua grande parte, estão obsoletos, sendo necessárias novas formas de se calcular o valor das tarifas. A automatização dos métodos de cálculos faz com que os órgãos competentes e projetistas levem menos tempo com demandas operacionais e possam focar em análises mais profundas sobre os custos do sistema de transporte coletivo urbano. Portanto, este estudo apresenta uma proposta de automatizar um desses métodos de cálculo: o Método Leonês. Tal automatização foi executada no Microsoft Excel através da linguagem de programação própria do software, denominada VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). Por fim, foram obtidos como resultados a planilha final de cálculo, considerações na concepção da planilha e ideias futuras de melhorias possíveis no programa construído.