Using Large Cohort Data to Strengthen Information-Based Public Health Policies: An Appeal to Portuguese Authorities

Inês Fronteira; Frederik Schaltz-Buchholzer; Christine Stabell Benn; Paulo Ferrinho; Henrique Barros

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Using Large Cohort Data to Strengthen Information-Based Public Health Policies: An Appeal to Portuguese Authorities

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Inês Fronteira * Equally shared authorship position. Comprehensive Health Research Centre (CHRC). NOVA Medical School. Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Lisbon; Associação Portuguesa de Epidemiologia. Porto. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1406-4585
Frederik Schaltz-Buchholzer Odense Patient data Explorative Network (OPEN). Bandim Health Project. Institute of Clinical Research. Odense University Hospital/University of Southern Denmark. Odense. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7643-8322
Christine Stabell Benn Odense Patient data Explorative Network (OPEN). Bandim Health Project. Institute of Clinical Research. Odense University Hospital/University of Southern Denmark. Odense; Danish Institute for Advanced Study. University of Southern Denmark. Odense. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6102-3810
Paulo Ferrinho * Equally shared authorship position. Associação Portuguesa de Epidemiologia. Porto; Global Health and Tropical Medicine. Instituto de Higiene e Medicina. Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Lisbon. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3722-0803
Henrique Barros * Equally shared authorship position. Epidemiology Research Unit (EPIUnit). Instituto de Saúde Pública. Universidade do Porto. Porto; Laboratório para a Investigação Integrativa e Translacional em Saúde Populacional (ITR). Porto; Departamento de Ciências da Saúde Pública e Forenses e Educação Médica. Faculdade de Medicina. Universidade do Porto. Porto. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4699-6571

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https://doi.org/10.20344/amp.21329

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Biomedical Research, Health Information Management, Datasets, Portugal, Public Health, Registries, Research Design

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2024-05-02

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Fronteira I, Schaltz-Buchholzer F, Stabell Benn C, Ferrinho P, Barros H. Using Large Cohort Data to Strengthen Information-Based Public Health Policies: An Appeal to Portuguese Authorities. Acta Med Port [Internet]. 2024 May 2 [cited 2024 Nov. 22];37(5):409-10. Available from: https://actamedicaportuguesa.com/revista/index.php/amp/article/view/21329

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Vol. 37 No. 5 (2024): May

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