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Pandemic, Health and Protection: What Does the Health at a Glance Report 2022 T...
Pita Barros, PedroN/a.; N/a.
Are Socioeconomic Inequalities in the Process of Registration with Family Physi...
Moura, Ana; Pita Barros, PedroIntroduction: The percentage of citizens who were not registered with a family physician in Portugal reached 16.6% in 2011. In 2012 the Ministry of Health implemented several measures aiming at improving access to family physicians. One clear objective was that all individuals would be registered with a family physician by 2014. We evaluate the evolution of the socioeconomic inequalities regarding registration ...
Economic Crisis and Portuguese National Health Service Physicians: Findings fro...
Rego, Inês; Russo, Giuliano; Gonçalves, Luzia; Perelman, Julian; Pita Barros, PedroIntroduction: In Europe, scant scientific evidence exists on the impact of economic crisis on physicians. This study aims at understanding the adjustments made by public sector physicians to the changing conditions, and their perceptions on the market for medical services in the Lisbon metropolitan area.Material and Methods: A random sample of 484 physicians from São José Hospital and health center groups in Ca...
Scientific Research Policy for Health in Portugal: I - European and National En...
Sá Guerreiro, Cátia; Hartz, Zulmira; Sambo, Luís; Conceição, Cláudia; Dussault, Gilles; Russo, Giuliano; Viveiros, Miguel; Silveira, HenriqueThe global debate on scientific research policy for human health has been led by World Health Organisation with important contributions from other stakeholders such as Council on Health Research for Development, the World Bank and the Global Forum for Health Research. Recently it has been dominated by the thematic agendas of major global financiers. There is a growing interest worldwide in making better use of ...
Scientific Research Policy for Health in Portugal: II - Facts and Suggestions
Guerreiro, Cátia Sá; Hartz, Zulmira; Sambo, Luís; Conceição, Cláudia; Dussault, Gilles; Russo, Giuliano; Viveiros, Miguel; Silveira, HenriqueAfter more than 40 years of democracy and 30 years of European integration, Portugal has bridged the research gap it had previously. However, when compared to global and European research policies, Portugal still has a long way go regarding investment in research and development. Health Research in Portugal has been managed by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia and the National Health Institute Doctor Ric...
Becoming a New SHARE Country
Sakkeus, Luule; Abuladze, Liili; Kézdi, Gábor; Gál, Róbert; Pita Barros, Pedro; Delerue Matos, Alice; Majcen, Boris; Lavrač, Vladimir; Mašič, Saša[Excerpt] This chapter reflects the experience of four countries which entered SHARE as new countries in wave four. We asked the authors to give an account of what motivated them to become part of SHARE, what obstacles and challenges they encountered, how these were overcome and to give a brief outlook of future directions. Countries appear in alphabetical order.
IN VITRO FERTILISATION IN PORTUGAL: COST- EFFECTIVENESS STUDY
Silva, Vladimiro; Pita Barros, Pedro; Lourenço, Óscar; Batel Marques, FranciscoObjectives: To perform an economic evaluation comparing urinary and recombinant gonadotropins in ovarian stimulation for in vitro fertilisation (IVF) in the National Health Service perspective. Pituitary suppression was achieved through the use of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists in a long protocol. Incremental cost-effectiveness ratios of one alternative versus the other were calculated for three...
Double health insurance coverage and health care utilisation
Pita Barros, Pedro; Moreira, SaraDouble health insurance coverage exists when an individual benefits from more than one health insurance plan at the same time. We examine the impact of such supplementary insurance on the utilisation of doctor consultations in Portugal, taking advantage of institutional features which make double coverage plausibly exogenous. The novelty is that the analysis is carried out for different points of the conditiona...