Research
Publications
Machado S, Moura A, Vargas Lopes F, Marques D, Sa L. A health system assessment approach to analysis of political parties' health proposals, Portugal. Bull World Health Organ. 2024 Nov 1;102(11):820-827.
Lopes FV, Ravesteijn B, Van Ourti T, Riumallo-Herl C. Income inequalities beyond access to mental health care: a Dutch nationwide record-linkage cohort study of baseline disease severity, treatment intensity, and mental health outcomes. Lancet Psychiatry. 2023 Aug;10(8):588-597. | Eddy Van Doorslaer Award 2023
Lopes FV, Bakx P, Harper S, Ravesteijn B, Van Ourti T. The effects of supported housing for individuals with mental disorders. Health Econ. 2022 Aug 19. doi: 10.1002/hec.4579.
Mölenberg FJM, Lopes FV. Natural experiments: A Nobel Prize awarded research design for strengthening causal inference on global health challenges. J Glob Health. 2022;12:03005. Published 2022 Apr 28. doi:10.7189/jogh.12.03005
Lopes FV, Riumallo Herl CJ, Mackenbach JP, Van Ourti T. Patient cost-sharing, mental health care and inequalities: A population-based natural experiment at the transition to adulthood. Soc Sci Med. 2022 Jan 29;296:114741. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114741 | Dissemination and media coverage here | Awarded best junior publication of 2022 at Public Health ErasmusMC
Filipe L, de Almeida SV, Costa E, da Costa JG, Lopes FV, Santos JV. Trade-offs during the COVID-19 pandemic: A discrete choice experiment about policy preferences in Portugal. PLoS One. 2022 Dec 16;17(12):e0278526.
Valente de Almeida S, Costa E, Lopes FV, Santos JV, Pita Barros P. Concerns and adjustments: How the Portuguese population met COVID-19. PLoS One. 2020 Oct 14;15(10):e0240500.
Miguel LS, Lopes FV, Pinheiro B, Wang J, Xu R, Pellissier J, Laires PA. Cost. Effectiveness of Pembrolizumab for Advanced Melanoma Treatment in Portugal. Value Health. 2017 Sep;20(8):1065-1073
Policy report:
“Identifying smarter policies during the COVID-19 crisis to reduce health inequities in Rotterdam”, joint with Famke Molenberg, Eline de Jong, Marielle Beenackers, Joost Oude Groeniger, Wilma Jansen and Frank Van Lenthe
Work in Progress
“Does the presence of a psychologist in the primary care reduce the anti-depressive therapy? Evidence from Portugal”, joint with Joana Pestana (in review)
”Medicaid expansion and the mechanics of increased access to organ transplant”, joint with Sara Machado
“Mental health status and employment trends in the United States: have these changed for good? ”, joint with Brittany Morey, Bruce Link and Sara Evans Lacko
Referee/Reviewer
Portuguese Journal of Public Health (2024)
Jornal of Epidemiology and Community Health (2024)
Social Science and Medicine (2024)
Value in Health (2023)
Lancet Psychiatry (2022)
Archives of Public Health (2022)
European Journal of Health Economics (2021)
Health Policy (2020)