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Disparities in geographical access to hospitals in Portugal

UIDB/04647/2020 UIDP/04647/2020 UIDB/04084/2020; Geographical accessibility to health care services is widely accepted as relevant to improve population health. However, measuring it is very complex, mainly when applied at administrative levels that go beyond the small-area level. This is the case in Portugal, where the municipality is the administrative level that is most appropriate for implementing policies ...

The role of individual and neighborhood characteristics on mental health after ...

Mental health is an intrinsic dimension of health influenced by individual and contextual factors. This cross-sectional study analyzes the association between the individual, neighborhood characteristics, and one’s self-assessed mental health status in the Lisbon region after an economic crisis. Via the application of multilevel regression models, the study assesses the link between one’s neighborhood environme...

Scenarios for population health inequalities in 2030 in Europe

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...

M Analysis of suicide rates and hospitalizations due to mental disorders.

Epidemiological study and qualitative study results.

Evolution and financial cost of socioeconomic inequalities in ambulatory care s...

Background: Hospitalizations for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (ACSC) are specific conditions for which hospitalization is thought to be avoidable through patient education, health promotion initiatives, early diagnosis and by appropriate chronic disease management, and have been shown to be greatly influenced by socioeconomic (SE) characteristics. We examined the SE inequalities in hospitalization rates...

Utilização de serviços de saúde mental em Portugal em tempos de crise económica.

Suicide in Portugal

The authors would like to thank the referees for their very helpful comments and Karen Bennett for the language review. This research was partially supported by two projects: GeoHealthS - Health Status Geography: An application of the Population Health Index in the last 20 years (PTDC/CSGEO/122566/2010) and SMAILE - Study on Mental Health. Assessment of the Impact of Local and Economic conditioners (PTDC/ATP-GE...