Research 2Care (R2Care)

1. Facilitate access for Primary Health Care (PHC) professionals to the technical-scientific resources supporting research available at the Garcia de Orta Center, which is part of ULSAS;

2. Map the current research barriers in PHC and develop a dynamic, robust, and personalized response to the needs of professionals wishing to conduct research in PHC.

3. Promote collaboration between PHC, Secondary Health Care (SHC), Academia, and other institutions (public or private) in scientific production, in a multidirectional way.

4. Create a website/app;

5. Establish a research culture in PHC and develop “building research capacity”;

6. Engage medical interns in an organizational culture where research is an essential activity of clinical practice;

7. Increase the quality of scientific production;

8. Foster evidence-based and person-centered clinical practice to improve population health and the efficiency of the health system.

• Support for the development of investigator-initiated studies carried out by professionals from ULS Almada-Seixal;

• Support for the development of investigator-initiated studies carried out by professionals external to ULS Almada-Seixal (who wish to implement their project within the area of influence of ULS Almada-Seixal);

• Collaboration with Secondary Healthcare services in clinical trials initiated by the Pharmaceutical Industry;

• Collaboration with Academia and other institutions (public or private) regarding scientific production;

• Creation of the "bank of ideas" and "bank of collaborators" to establish win-win partnerships between researchers and potential collaborators.

• Metabolic Syndrome

• Education, Medical, Undergraduate // Education, Medical, Graduate 

• Comorbidity

• Mobile Applications 

• Decision Support Systems, Clinical

• University Clinic of General and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon

• Institute of Preventive Medicine and Public Health (IMPSP), Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon

• Integrated Health Research Center (CHRC)

• LeanHealth

• VA|PREVENTION

• Seixal Users' Commission

• Portuguese Diabetes Association (APDP)

• Algarve Biomedical Center (ABC)