Faculty
Associate Professor of Occupational Health, Member of the Public Health Research Center (CISP).
Areas of academic interest:
Occupational Health, Ergonomics, Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WRMSDs), Occupational Health and Safety, Patient Safety, Public Health.
Chairperson of the Supervisory Board of the Portuguese Association of Ergonomics (APERGO); Author and co-author of books, book chapters and several articles in scientific journals on areas of academic interest.
PEDAGOGICAL COORDINATION
- Ergonomics (Master in Occupational Health)
- Occupational Health Risk Assessment and Management - AGRSO (joint coordination with Prof. António Sousa-Uva, Master in Occupational Health)
- Work Physiology (Master in Occupational Health)
- Occupational Health and Safety (Master in Occupational Health)
- Occupational Medicine case study (Master in Occupational Health)
- Specialty Seminar on Environmental and Occupational Health (joint coordination with Prof. António Sousa-Uva, PhD Program in Public Health)
- Environmental and Occupational Health and Physical Determinants (joint coordination with Prof. António Sousa-Uva, Global Public Health Doctoral Program)
- Ergonomics and Patient Safety (Optional UCP)
TEACHING PARTICIPATION
- Occupational Health (Master in Public Health; CESP)
- Health and Safety at Work in Health Units (Optional UCP)
- Patient Safety and Risk Management (Optional UCP)
- Occupational Health (NMS/ FCM Optional)
Marisa Guerreiro - "WRMSDs Prevention in the automotive industry: prospective analysis of an intervention program". PhD in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Specialty. ENSP / NOVA with Prof. Eduardo Cruz - Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal. Presentation scheduled for June 2020.
The main research area focuses on Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WRMSDs) and Risk Assessment and Management. Academic and research interests extend to Ergonomics and are currently focused on Hospital Ergonomics and Patient and Health Care Safety. Overall these themes are part of the Occupational Health or Health and Safety research line. This work, for some years ago, was focused on the context of Hospitals and other Health Units, of the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health.
Member of the Public Health Research Center (CISP).
The participation in research projects (8 in total) was funded by various entities, such as the Working Conditions Authority (ACT) and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
- FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA,MÁRIO PEREIRA, CARLOS SILVA-SANTOS, MANUELA CABRITA. Auto-referência de sintomas de LME numa grande empresa em Portugal. Revista Portuguesa de Saúde Pública. 2 (2003) 37-48.
- FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA,FÁTIMA LOPES, ANTÓNIO SOUSA-UVA. Lesões músculo-esqueléticas e trabalho: uma associação muito frequente. Jornal das Ciências Médicas. Tomos CLXVIII (2004) 59-78.
- FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA,ANTÓNIO SOUSA-UVA. Avaliação do risco de LMEMSLT: aplicação dos métodos RULA e SI. Revista Portuguesa de Saúde Pública. Volume Temático (2006) 13-36.
- MARIA FONSECA,FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA. Sintomatologia músculo-esquelética auto-referida por enfermeiros em meio hospitalar. Revista Portuguesa de Saúde Pública. Volume Temático (2006) 37-44.
- EMA SACADURA-LEITE, ANTÓNIO SOUSA-UVA, FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA. Exposição a radiações ionizantes em cirurgia ortopédica, que níveis de risco? Revista Portuguesa de Saúde Pública. Volume Temático (2006) 55-66.
- LUÍS LANÇA, AUGUSTO SILVA, EDUARDO ALVES, FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA, MANUEL CORREIA. Evaluation of exposure parameters in plain radiography: a comparative study with European guidelines. Radiation Protection Dosimetry. 129: 1-3 (2008) 316-320.
- FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA,ANTÓNIO SOUSA-UVA. WRULMSDs risk assessment: different tools, different results! What are we measuring? Medicina y Seguridad del Trabajo. LIV: 212 (2008), 35-44.
- FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA,ANTÓNIO SOUSA-UVA, JORGE ESPÍRITO-SANTO. Estratégia de avaliação do risco de lesões músculo-esqueléticas dos membros superiores ligadas ao trabalho aplicada na indústria de abate e desmancha de carne em Portugal. Revista Brasileira de Saúde Ocupacional. 34:119 (2009) 58-66.
- AUGUSTO OLIVEIRA, J JESUS, EMA SACADURA-LEITE, FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA, ANTÓNIO SOUSA-UVA. Caracterização do feixe de radiação X num bloco operatório em cirurgia ortopédica. Revista Portuguesa de Saúde Pública. 1 (2009) 59-70.
- PAULO SOUSA, ANTÓNIO SOUSA-UVA, FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA, FAUSTO PINTO, JOHN OVRETVEIT, NIEK KLAZINGA, ROSA SUNOL, DARCEY TERRIS. The patient safety journey in Portugal: challenges and opportunities from a public health perspective. Revista Portuguesa de Saúde Pública. Número especial 25 anos (2009) 91-106.
- FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA; ANTÓNIO SOUSA-UVA. LER/DORT: que métodos de avaliação do risco? Revista Brasileira de Saúde Ocupacional.35: 122 (2010) 314-326.
- ANTÓNIO SOUSA-UVA; PAULO SOUSA; FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA. A Segurança do doente para além do erro médico ou do erro clínico. Revista Portuguesa de Saúde Pública. Volume Temático: 10 (2010) 1-2.
- SERRANHEIRA, F.; SOUSA, P.; UVA, A. Ergonomia hospitalar e segurança do doente: mais convergências que divergências. Revista Portuguesa de Saúde Pública. Volume Temático: 10 (2010) 58-73.
- PAULO SOUSA; ANTÓNIO SOUSA-UVA; FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA. Investigação e inovação em segurança do doente. Revista Portuguesa de Saúde Pública.Volume Temático: 10 (2010) 89-95.
- FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA, MAFALDA SOUSA-UVA, ANTÓNIO SOUSA-UVA. Lombalgias e trabalho hospitalar em enfermeiro(a)s. Revista Brasileira de Medicina do Trabalho. 10: 2. (2012) 80-87.
- FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA, TERESA COTRIM, VICTOR RODRIGUES, CARLA NUNES, ANTÓNIO SOUSA-UVA. Lesões musculoesqueléticas ligadas ao trabalho em enfermeiros portugueses: «ossos do ofício» ou doenças relacionadas com o trabalho? Revista Portuguesa de Saúde Pública 30: 2. (2012) 193-203.
- FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA, TERESA COTRIM, VICTOR RODRIGUES, CARLA NUNES, ANTÓNIO SOUSA-UVA. Nurses' working tasks and MSDs back symptoms: results from a national survey. Work(Reading, Mass.) 41 Suppl 1: (2012) 2449-2451.
- ANTÓNIO SOUSA-UVA, FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA.Trabalho e Saúde/Doença: o desafio sistemático da prevenção dos riscos profissionais e o esquecimento reiterado da promoção da saúde. Revista Brasileira de Medicina do Trabalho11: 1. (2013) 43-49.
- MARGARIDA NEVES, FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA. A formação de profissionais de saúde para a prevenção de lesões musculoesqueléticas ligadas ao trabalho a nível da coluna lombar: uma revisão sistemática. Revista Portuguesa de Saúde Pública 32: 1. (2013) 89-105.
- PAULO SOUSA, ANTÓNIO SOUSA UVA, FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA, CARLA NUNES, EMA S LEITE. Estimating the incidence of adverse events in Portuguese hospitals: a contribution to improving quality and patient safety BMC Health Services Research., 14: (2014) 311 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-14-311.
- STEFANIE COSTA, EVA OLIVEIRA, CLÁUDIA REIS, SUSANA VIEGAS, FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA. Mammography equipment design: impact on radiographers' practice. Insights into imaging. 5: 6. (2014) 723-730 Dec.
- FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA, DEREK SMITH. Work-related musculoskeletal disorders in nursing: current knowledge and ongoing challenges for occupational health. La Medicina del lavoro. 105: 5. (2014) 395-397 Sep/Oct.
- FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA, MAFALDA SOUSA-UVA, ANTÓNIO SOUSA-UVA. Hospital nurses tasks and work-related musculoskeletal disorders symptoms: A detailed analysis. Work. 51: (2015) 401-409.
- FÁTIMA DUARTE, FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA. Prevalência de sintomas associados a lesões musculoesqueléticas na atividade profissional dos higienistas orais. Revista Portuguesa de Saúde Pública.33: 1. (2015) 49-56.
- PEDRO ALVES DE MOURA, FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA, EMA SACADURA LEITE. Psychosocial risks in Psychiatry and Anaesthesiology residents in a Portuguese General and University Hospital. La Medicina del lavoro 107: 2. (2016) 129-140 03.
- MARIA EMÍLIA QUEIROZ-LIMA, FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA. Absenteeism and presenteeism costs from occupational accidents with WRMSDs in a Portuguese hospital. DYNA. 83: 196. (2016) 27-30 April.
- TÂNIA RIBEIRO, FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA, HELENA LOUREIRO. Work related musculoskeletal disorders in primary health care nurses. Applied Nursing Research.(2017) 72–77.
- PAULO SOUSA, ANTÓNIO SOUSA UVA, FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA, MAFALDA SOUSA UVA, CARLA NUNES. Patient and hospital characteristics that influence incidence of adverse events in acute public hospitals in Portugal: a retrospective cohort study. International Journal for Quality in Health Care. (2018) 1–6. doi: 10.1093/intqhc/mzx190.
- SARA RAMOS, FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA, ANTÓNIO SOUSA-UVA. Percepção dos riscos profissionais em trabalhadores de transporte de valores. bras. med. trab, 16:3, (2018) 327-335.
- PAULO SOUSA, ANTÓNIO SOUSA-UVA, FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA, MAFALDA SOUSA-UVA, CARLA NUNES. The importance of identifying Patient and hospital characteristics that influence incidence of adverse events in acute public hospitals. Adv, Intell. Sys. Comput. 819 (2019) 119-123.
- FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA, MAFALDA SOUSA-UVA, FRANCISCO HERANZ, FRANCISCO KOVACS, ANTÓNIO SOUSA-UVA. Low Back Pain (LBP) and Physical Work Demands Adv, Intell. Comput. 820 (2019)148-153.
- FLORENTINO SERRANHEIRA, MAFALDA SOUSA-UVA, FRANCISCO HERANZ, FRANCISCO KOVACS, EMA SACADURA-LEITE, ANTÓNIO SOUSA-UVA. (2019, July). Hospital Physical Demands and Non-specific Low Back Pain. In International Conference on Healthcare Ergonomics and Patient Safety(pp. 56-62). Springer, Cham.
Full details of publications can be found at:
- External expert from the Agency for the Evaluation and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES).
- Author of more than 100 papers in Congresses and other national and international scientific meetings.
- Consultant in the area of Occupational Health and Safety, and Ergonomics in several business-consulting projects by ENSP.