Research

Publications

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. 

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

• ”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? ”, join with Brittany Morey and Sara Evans Lacko 

Referee/Reviewer

• Value in Health (2023)

• Lancet Psychiatry (2022)

• Archives of Public Health (2022)

• European Journal of Health Economics (2021)

• Health Policy (2020)