Is the Health Budget to hire 4.200 professionals enough?
Eduardo Costa, of Nova SBE Health Economics & Management Knowledge Center, analyzed for Público whether the 100 million euros of the Health budget to hire 4200 professionals will be enough.
“The 60 million euros for the risk subsidy for professionals who are at the forefront of combating the pandemic will be taken out of this amount, and six million will be used to hire 261 new health emergency workers. It would be necessary to have more detailed information to understand if this amount will be sufficient”, notes Eduardo Costa.
"It would be important to know the type of health professionals to be hired – it is completely different to hire doctors or operational assistants [from the point of view of expenditure] – and the month of entry into work, to be able to assess the realism of this budget"
Europeans know and act on WHO recommendations during COVID-19
The World Health Organization recommended a range of preventative behaviors to protect the public from COVID-19. This column examines how familiar and compliant the adult population of seven European countries were with WHO’s recommendations. Using individual-level data from 7,000 respondents to an online survey conducted in April 2020, the study finds that information from WHO in the context of COVID-19 was well trusted and largely followed, with heterogeneities by recommendation type, country, and individual level characteristics such as region, age, gender, and education.
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Eduardo Costa, PhD Candidate in Economics at Nova SBE, conducted a research on the impact oh hospital strikes.
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Predict the risk of developing diabetic nephropathy
Nova SBE Data Science Knowledge Center and the clinical staff of APDD, aims to develop a prototype of a predictive model that can identify the risk factors of a patient with type 2 diabetes mellitus II come to develop diabetic nephropathy.
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