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Advancing tools to promote health equity across European Union regions: the EUR...
Santana, Paula; Freitas, Ângela; Stefanik, Iwa; Costa, Cláudia; Oliveira, Mónica; Rodrigues, Teresa C.; Vieira, Ana; Ferreira, Pedro LopesBackground Population health measurements are recognised as appropriate tools to support public health monitoring. Yet, there is still a lack of tools that offer a basis for policy appraisal and for foreseeing impacts on health equity. In the context of persistent regional inequalities, it is critical to ascertain which regions are performing best, which factors might shape future health outcomes and where ther...
Scenarios for population health inequalities in 2030 in Europe: the EURO-HEALTH...
Alvarenga, António; Costa, Carlos A. Bana e; Borrell, Carme; Ferreira, Pedro Lopes; Freitas, Ângela Mendes; Freitas, Liliana; Oliveira, Mónica D.Background: Health inequalities have been consistently reported across and within European countries and continue to pose major challenges to policy-making. The development of scenarios regarding what could affect population health (PH) inequalities across Europe in the future is considered critical. Scenarios can help policy-makers prepare and better cope with fast evolving challenges. Objective: This paper de...
Prioritizing health care interventions : a multicriteria resource allocation mo...
Oliveira, Mónica D.; Rodrigues, Teresa C.; Costa, Carlos A. Bana e; Sá, Armando Brito deMany countries, including Portugal, are currently dealing with budget cuts and a shortage of resources in the health sector, while the demand for health care services is increasing. The Group of Health Centres (GHC) of the Northen Lisbon faces the challenge of priortizing community care programmes in order to decide wich programmes to fund. We describe the development with the GHC of a Multi-criteria model to a...