Mindfulness: a peaceful (r)evolution

Coronavirus pandemic

A European study on the coronavirus and the use of information by the population, involving Iryna Sabat (PhD student) and Pedro Pita Barros, KC Health Economics & Management Scientific Director.

Opinion Article

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.

Brown sugar, how come you taste so good?

More than 40 countries around the world have introduced or are considering introducing soda taxes. These instruments aim to reduce the consumption of products whose prices do not reflect their true social costs by making them comparatively more expensive. In Portugal, the soda tax is particularly interesting to study because there is a clear incentive for manufacturers of drinks with sugar content at or above the threshold to reformulate recipes and avoid paying the higher tax.

Effects of change in hospital treatment payment policy for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon: a health economics analysis

Sara Almeida, Nova SBE PhD student, together with Gloria Paolucci and Seita Akihiro, from the Department of Health, UNRWA, and Hala Ghattas, from the Centre for Research in Population and Health, American University of Beirut, developed this research paper.

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Research and Development