Social trends, demographics, and community issues in modern Portugal.
Angela Merkel's jury chose the Alianza Ceibo from 304 nominations. The four-nation alliance protects two million hectares of forest and has won court rulings that annulled 52 illegal mining concessions.
The recovery-funded units of the ULS Médio Tejo take nursing care, vaccinations and chronic-disease checks to villages in Abrantes, Mação, Sardoal and Vila de Rei, on fixed days and hours in each place.
The national mental health coordinator puts the number of patients kept in psychiatric hospitals for lack of community places at 300-odd, and the continuing-care network at 590 places. Intensive rehabilitation units for Lisbon, Coimbra and Porto are waiting on a government decision.
A study of 750 journalists by the Labpats workplace-health laboratory finds stagnant pay, long shifts and weak management behind the exhaustion. Two thirds would still choose the profession again.
More than 750 beds have closed in five years, and the providers' association says frozen daily prices are to blame. Of 1,457 recovery-fund beds approved for Lisboa e Vale do Tejo, just over 100 have gone ahead.
The Federação Nacional da Educação has asked the government for a permanent relocation statute plus a separate housing allowance, scrapping the 70-kilometre threshold and topping out at 900 euros a month in critical-shortage areas.
Health Minister Ana Paula Martins told parliament on Tuesday that orthopaedics and traumatology are next for concentrated emergency units, with Lisboa e Vale do Tejo the priority. The same hearing produced two admissions about management delays.
