Cláudia Costa
Biographic Data
| ID | 3641490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cláudia Costa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cláudia |
| FAMILY NAME | Costa |
| SIGNATURE | COSTA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centro de Estudos em Geografia e Ordenamento do Territorio |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2715-1154 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Intensive resource exploitation in Late Neolithic Iberia
Analysis of Organic Residues in the Context of the Middle Bronze Age in the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula
This paper presents and discusses the results of chromatographic analyses conducted on the contents of a ceramic pot recovered from Cova da Moura, a coastal funerary context located on the western slope of the Serra de Santa Luzia in Carreço, within the municipality and district of Viana do Castelo, Northwest Portugal. The site was excavated in 1931 by Abel Viana, who uncovered a monument beneath a tumulus that concealed a cluster of granite outc…
Nem episódicas, nem acidentais
O artigo, que se situa no campo dos estudos latino-americanos que buscam desvelar as formas de colaboração e cumplicidade entre militares, empresários e empresas no contexto dos regimes ditatoriais instituídos na região entre as décadas de 1960 e 1980, tem como objetivo principal descrever e contextualizar a constituição e funcionamento do sistema de vigilância, monitoramento e repressão política institucionalizado na Petrobras, empresa petrolífe…
The influence of home and environmental characteristics on 5–18 years old children's health during the Covid-19 pandemic
Background The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has dramatically changed the health and wellbeing of children. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between the home environment and the environmental characteristics on 5–18 years old children health in Iran. Method An online survey was conducted among parents of children aged 5 to 18 living in large cities in Iran in 2021. The statistical population of this cross-sect…
Towards an understanding of the different uses of sheep/goat and hare in Iberian South-Western Bronze Age funerary contexts
Trends of amenable deaths due to healthcare within the European Union countries. Exploring the association with the economic crisis and education
The study of premature deaths from causes that are generally preventable given the current availability of healthcare - called amenable deaths due to healthcare - provides information on the quality of services. However, they are not only impacted by healthcare characteristics: other factors are also likely to influence. Therefore, identifying the association between amenable deaths due to healthcare and health determinants, such as education, mi…
Spatial Access Matters
In 2006, a policy reform restructured the maternal and perinatal healthcare system, including closing smaller maternity units, to further improve care in Portugal. This study aimed to investigate the effects of the 2006 National Program of Maternal and Neonatal Health policy on spatial inequalities in access to care and consequently avoidable infant mortality. A thematic analysis of qualitative data including interviews and surveys and a quantita…
Socioeconomic Inequalities in Chronic Liver Diseases and Cirrhosis Mortality in European Urban Areas before and after the Onset of the 2008 Economic Recession
There are geographical socioeconomic inequalities in chronic liver diseases and cirrhosis mortality, mainly among men, that did not change during the 2008 financial crisis. These results should be monitored in the long term
Disparities in Geographical Access to Hospitals in Portugal
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 to improve the access to those services. The aim of this paper is to assess whether i…
Effect of the recent economic crisis on socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in nine urban areas in Europe
To analyse socioeconomic inequalities in all-cause mortality among men and women in nine European urban areas during the recent economic crisis, and to compare the results to those from two periods before the crisis. This is an ecological study of trends based on three time periods (2000-2003, 2004-2008 and 2009-2014). The units of analysis were the small areas of nine European urban areas. We used a composite deprivation index as a socioeconomic…
The Association between Material Deprivation and Avoidable Mortality in Lisbon, Portugal
There is considerable evidence pointing to the existence of a socioeconomic gradient in mortality, which tends to be steeper in urban areas. Similar to other European cities, Lisbon is far from homogeneous since considerable geographical inequalities exist between the more advantaged and the more deprived neighborhoods. The main goals of this study are to describe the geographical pattern of premature deaths (before 65 years old), avoidable death…
The Role of Cohesion Policy Funds in Decreasing the Health Gaps Measured by the Euro-HEALTHY Population Health Index
Social, economic, and environmental differences across the European Union significantly affect opportunities to move forward in achieving greater equity in health. Cohesion Policy (CP) funds can contribute positively through investments in the main determinants of health. The aim of this study is to analyze to what extent the planned investments for 2014-2020 are addressing the regional health gaps, in light of the population health index (PHI), …
Health Disparities in Czechia and Portugal at Country and Municipality Levels
This article investigates the health outcomes and determinants between two different European populations, Portuguese and Czech, on two hierarchical levels: country and metropolitan area. At first, the decomposition method of age and cause of death were compared on the country level, and then health was examined based on a factor analysis at the municipality level of Prague and Lisbon. The results clearly indicate problematic diabetes mortality a…
Population Health Inequalities Across and Within European Metropolitan Areas through the Lens of the Euro-HEALTHY Population Health Index
The different geographical contexts seen in European metropolitan areas are reflected in the uneven distribution of health risk factors for the population. Accumulating evidence on multiple health determinants point to the importance of individual, social, economic, physical and built environment features, which can be shaped by the local authorities. The complexity of measuring health, which at the same time underscores the level of intra-urban …
Faunal Remains from Torre Velha 12 (Serpa, Beja, Southwest of Portugal)
Torre Velha 12 is located in Serpa (Beja) and was excavated and directed by two of the authors (LB and SG), during an emergency intervention within the Alqueva Project. This site is characterized by negative structures filled with pottery sherds and other materials dating to the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE. The aim of this paper is to publish the study of the faunal remains dated from Bronze Age (2nd millennium BCE). The faunal assemblage is small …
The symbolic meaning of cattle and sheep/goat in the Bronze Age
The inclusion of faunal remains in funerary practices is widely documented in Iberian prehistory. For the late prehistory (Neolithic to Bronze Age), there is relatively more data than in earlier periods, with limb segments being very common, and complete animals are rarer. In Bronze Age contexts from South-Western Iberia, a high percentage of human burials in subterranean chambers (hypogea) are associated with limb bones of cattle (Bos taurus) an…
A relutância das populações rurais às influências orientalizantes do 1o milénio a.C
As intervenções arqueológicas em várias ocupações rurais datadas do 1o milénio a.C. na margem direita do curso médio do rio Guadiana, em Portugal, levadas a cabo no âmbito do plano de salvaguarda da Barragem de Alqueva, permitiram a recolha de cinco conjuntos zooarqueológicos provenientes da Rocha do Vigio 2, Espinhaço de Cão 1, Monte dos Musgos 10, Malhada dos Gagos 13 e Malhada das Mimosas 2. O estudo arqueofaunístico demonstrou uma marcada dep…
Neolithic ditched enclosures in Southern Portugal (4th millennium BC)
This paper presents some new contextual data on five Neolithic ditched sites located in Alentejo hinterland (Perdigões, Horta do Pinheiro 6, Horta Nova 4, Estácio 6 and Cortes 1). An inventory of the available radiocarbon dates for the Neolithic (with twelve new dates) is provided and several aspects on the arising and early developments of the regional ditched enclosures are debated, e.g. spatial distribution, construction procedures, social re-…
Evolution and financial cost of socioeconomic inequalities in ambulatory care sensitive conditions
There was an increasing SE patterning in ACSC related hospitalizations, possibly reflecting increasing SE inequalities in early and preventive high-quality care, imposing a substantial financial burden to the Portuguese NHS
Detecting single events in large shell mounds
The Use of Animal Bone as Fuel in the Third Millennium BC Walled Enclosure of Castanheiro do Vento (Northern Portugal)
Experiments on fire manipulation of bones as fuel demonstrated that animal bones are effective in the act of maintaining lasting combustion. These experiments are almost always applied to the studies in hunter-gather societies in prehistory, even though the use of bones as fuel is also known in historical times.Based on data and models resulting from these recent experiments, both in laboratory and in real hearths, I tested the hypothesis of the …
Mortality, material deprivation and urbanization
Our findings explore the specific pattern of fourteen causes of death in LMA and reveals small areas with an excess risk of mortality associated with material deprivation, thereby identifying problematic areas that could potentially benefit from public policies effecting social inequalities
Suicide in Portugal
This study compares the existing statistical association between suicide mortality and the characteristics of places of residence (municipalities), before and during the current economic crisis, in Portugal. We found that (1) the traditional culture-based North/South pattern of suicidal behaviour has faded away, while the socioeconomic urban/rural divide has become more pronounced; (2) suicide is associated with higher levels of rurality and mate…
The socio-spatial context as a risk factor for hospitalization due to mental illness in the metropolitan areas of Portugal
This study's aims are: (i) identifying spatial patterns for the risk of hospitalization due to mental illness and for the potential risk resulting from contextual factors with influence on mental health; and (ii) analyzing the spatial association between risk of hospitalization due to mental illness and potential risk resulting from contextual factors in the metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto, Portugal. A cross-sectional ecological study was …
Associação espacial entre variáveis socioeconômicas e risco relativo de nascimentos pré-termo na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo (RMSP) e na Área Metropolitana de Lisboa (AML)
A prematuridade é um dos grandes problemas de saúde pública, contribuindo fortemente para a morbi-mortalidade infantil, tanto em países em desenvolvimento como o Brasil, quanto em países europeus como Portugal. O nascido prematuro é aquele que nasce com menos de 37 semanas de gestação. Os fatores de risco individuais associados à incidência da prematuridade são conhecidos. No entanto, os fatores contextuais que podem influenciar a sua incidência …
Animal limbs in funerary contexts in southern Portugal and the question of segmentation
Valera, António Carlos, Costa, Cláudia (2013): Animal limbs in funerary contexts in southern Portugal and the question of segmentation. Anthropozoologica 48 (2): 263-275, DOI: 10.5252/az2013n2a5, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/az2013n2a5
Collective secondary cremation in a pit grave
Suicide in Portugal
This study compares the existing statistical association between suicide mortality and the characteristics of places of residence (municipalities), before and during the current economic crisis, in Portugal. We found that (1) the traditional culture-based North/South pattern of suicidal behaviour has faded away, while the socioeconomic urban/rural divide has become more pronounced; (2) suicide is associated with higher levels of rurality and mate…
The Use of Animal Bone as Fuel in the Third Millennium BC Walled Enclosure of Castanheiro do Vento (Northern Portugal)
Experiments on fire manipulation of bones as fuel demonstrated that animal bones are effective in the act of maintaining lasting combustion. These experiments are almost always applied to the studies in hunter-gather societies in prehistory, even though the use of bones as fuel is also known in historical times.Based on data and models resulting from these recent experiments, both in laboratory and in real hearths, I tested the hypothesis of the …
Detecting single events in large shell mounds
Faunal Remains from Torre Velha 12 (Serpa, Beja, Southwest of Portugal)
Torre Velha 12 is located in Serpa (Beja) and was excavated and directed by two of the authors (LB and SG), during an emergency intervention within the Alqueva Project. This site is characterized by negative structures filled with pottery sherds and other materials dating to the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE. The aim of this paper is to publish the study of the faunal remains dated from Bronze Age (2nd millennium BCE). The faunal assemblage is small …
The symbolic meaning of cattle and sheep/goat in the Bronze Age
The inclusion of faunal remains in funerary practices is widely documented in Iberian prehistory. For the late prehistory (Neolithic to Bronze Age), there is relatively more data than in earlier periods, with limb segments being very common, and complete animals are rarer. In Bronze Age contexts from South-Western Iberia, a high percentage of human burials in subterranean chambers (hypogea) are associated with limb bones of cattle (Bos taurus) an…
Associação espacial entre variáveis socioeconômicas e risco relativo de nascimentos pré-termo na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo (RMSP) e na Área Metropolitana de Lisboa (AML)
A prematuridade é um dos grandes problemas de saúde pública, contribuindo fortemente para a morbi-mortalidade infantil, tanto em países em desenvolvimento como o Brasil, quanto em países europeus como Portugal. O nascido prematuro é aquele que nasce com menos de 37 semanas de gestação. Os fatores de risco individuais associados à incidência da prematuridade são conhecidos. No entanto, os fatores contextuais que podem influenciar a sua incidência …
Animal limbs in funerary contexts in southern Portugal and the question of segmentation
Valera, António Carlos, Costa, Cláudia (2013): Animal limbs in funerary contexts in southern Portugal and the question of segmentation. Anthropozoologica 48 (2): 263-275, DOI: 10.5252/az2013n2a5, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/az2013n2a5
Associação espacial entre variáveis socioeconômicas e risco relativo de nascimentos pré-termo na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo (RMSP) e na Área Metropolitana de Lisboa (AML)
A prematuridade é um dos grandes problemas de saúde pública, contribuindo fortemente para a morbi-mortalidade infantil, tanto em países em desenvolvimento como o Brasil, quanto em países europeus como Portugal. O nascido prematuro é aquele que nasce com menos de 37 semanas de gestação. Os fatores de risco individuais associados à incidência da prematuridade são conhecidos. No entanto, os fatores contextuais que podem influenciar a sua incidência …
Collective secondary cremation in a pit grave
Mortality, material deprivation and urbanization
Our findings explore the specific pattern of fourteen causes of death in LMA and reveals small areas with an excess risk of mortality associated with material deprivation, thereby identifying problematic areas that could potentially benefit from public policies effecting social inequalities
Suicide in Portugal
This study compares the existing statistical association between suicide mortality and the characteristics of places of residence (municipalities), before and during the current economic crisis, in Portugal. We found that (1) the traditional culture-based North/South pattern of suicidal behaviour has faded away, while the socioeconomic urban/rural divide has become more pronounced; (2) suicide is associated with higher levels of rurality and mate…
The socio-spatial context as a risk factor for hospitalization due to mental illness in the metropolitan areas of Portugal
This study's aims are: (i) identifying spatial patterns for the risk of hospitalization due to mental illness and for the potential risk resulting from contextual factors with influence on mental health; and (ii) analyzing the spatial association between risk of hospitalization due to mental illness and potential risk resulting from contextual factors in the metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto, Portugal. A cross-sectional ecological study was …
The Use of Animal Bone as Fuel in the Third Millennium BC Walled Enclosure of Castanheiro do Vento (Northern Portugal)
Experiments on fire manipulation of bones as fuel demonstrated that animal bones are effective in the act of maintaining lasting combustion. These experiments are almost always applied to the studies in hunter-gather societies in prehistory, even though the use of bones as fuel is also known in historical times.Based on data and models resulting from these recent experiments, both in laboratory and in real hearths, I tested the hypothesis of the …
Neolithic ditched enclosures in Southern Portugal (4th millennium BC)
This paper presents some new contextual data on five Neolithic ditched sites located in Alentejo hinterland (Perdigões, Horta do Pinheiro 6, Horta Nova 4, Estácio 6 and Cortes 1). An inventory of the available radiocarbon dates for the Neolithic (with twelve new dates) is provided and several aspects on the arising and early developments of the regional ditched enclosures are debated, e.g. spatial distribution, construction procedures, social re-…
Evolution and financial cost of socioeconomic inequalities in ambulatory care sensitive conditions
There was an increasing SE patterning in ACSC related hospitalizations, possibly reflecting increasing SE inequalities in early and preventive high-quality care, imposing a substantial financial burden to the Portuguese NHS
Detecting single events in large shell mounds
A relutância das populações rurais às influências orientalizantes do 1o milénio a.C
As intervenções arqueológicas em várias ocupações rurais datadas do 1o milénio a.C. na margem direita do curso médio do rio Guadiana, em Portugal, levadas a cabo no âmbito do plano de salvaguarda da Barragem de Alqueva, permitiram a recolha de cinco conjuntos zooarqueológicos provenientes da Rocha do Vigio 2, Espinhaço de Cão 1, Monte dos Musgos 10, Malhada dos Gagos 13 e Malhada das Mimosas 2. O estudo arqueofaunístico demonstrou uma marcada dep…
Health Disparities in Czechia and Portugal at Country and Municipality Levels
This article investigates the health outcomes and determinants between two different European populations, Portuguese and Czech, on two hierarchical levels: country and metropolitan area. At first, the decomposition method of age and cause of death were compared on the country level, and then health was examined based on a factor analysis at the municipality level of Prague and Lisbon. The results clearly indicate problematic diabetes mortality a…
Population Health Inequalities Across and Within European Metropolitan Areas through the Lens of the Euro-HEALTHY Population Health Index
The different geographical contexts seen in European metropolitan areas are reflected in the uneven distribution of health risk factors for the population. Accumulating evidence on multiple health determinants point to the importance of individual, social, economic, physical and built environment features, which can be shaped by the local authorities. The complexity of measuring health, which at the same time underscores the level of intra-urban …
Faunal Remains from Torre Velha 12 (Serpa, Beja, Southwest of Portugal)
Torre Velha 12 is located in Serpa (Beja) and was excavated and directed by two of the authors (LB and SG), during an emergency intervention within the Alqueva Project. This site is characterized by negative structures filled with pottery sherds and other materials dating to the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE. The aim of this paper is to publish the study of the faunal remains dated from Bronze Age (2nd millennium BCE). The faunal assemblage is small …
The symbolic meaning of cattle and sheep/goat in the Bronze Age
The inclusion of faunal remains in funerary practices is widely documented in Iberian prehistory. For the late prehistory (Neolithic to Bronze Age), there is relatively more data than in earlier periods, with limb segments being very common, and complete animals are rarer. In Bronze Age contexts from South-Western Iberia, a high percentage of human burials in subterranean chambers (hypogea) are associated with limb bones of cattle (Bos taurus) an…
Disparities in Geographical Access to Hospitals in Portugal
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 to improve the access to those services. The aim of this paper is to assess whether i…
Effect of the recent economic crisis on socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in nine urban areas in Europe
To analyse socioeconomic inequalities in all-cause mortality among men and women in nine European urban areas during the recent economic crisis, and to compare the results to those from two periods before the crisis. This is an ecological study of trends based on three time periods (2000-2003, 2004-2008 and 2009-2014). The units of analysis were the small areas of nine European urban areas. We used a composite deprivation index as a socioeconomic…
The Association between Material Deprivation and Avoidable Mortality in Lisbon, Portugal
There is considerable evidence pointing to the existence of a socioeconomic gradient in mortality, which tends to be steeper in urban areas. Similar to other European cities, Lisbon is far from homogeneous since considerable geographical inequalities exist between the more advantaged and the more deprived neighborhoods. The main goals of this study are to describe the geographical pattern of premature deaths (before 65 years old), avoidable death…
The Role of Cohesion Policy Funds in Decreasing the Health Gaps Measured by the Euro-HEALTHY Population Health Index
Social, economic, and environmental differences across the European Union significantly affect opportunities to move forward in achieving greater equity in health. Cohesion Policy (CP) funds can contribute positively through investments in the main determinants of health. The aim of this study is to analyze to what extent the planned investments for 2014-2020 are addressing the regional health gaps, in light of the population health index (PHI), …
Trends of amenable deaths due to healthcare within the European Union countries. Exploring the association with the economic crisis and education
The study of premature deaths from causes that are generally preventable given the current availability of healthcare - called amenable deaths due to healthcare - provides information on the quality of services. However, they are not only impacted by healthcare characteristics: other factors are also likely to influence. Therefore, identifying the association between amenable deaths due to healthcare and health determinants, such as education, mi…
Spatial Access Matters
In 2006, a policy reform restructured the maternal and perinatal healthcare system, including closing smaller maternity units, to further improve care in Portugal. This study aimed to investigate the effects of the 2006 National Program of Maternal and Neonatal Health policy on spatial inequalities in access to care and consequently avoidable infant mortality. A thematic analysis of qualitative data including interviews and surveys and a quantita…
Socioeconomic Inequalities in Chronic Liver Diseases and Cirrhosis Mortality in European Urban Areas before and after the Onset of the 2008 Economic Recession
There are geographical socioeconomic inequalities in chronic liver diseases and cirrhosis mortality, mainly among men, that did not change during the 2008 financial crisis. These results should be monitored in the long term
The influence of home and environmental characteristics on 5–18 years old children's health during the Covid-19 pandemic
Background The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has dramatically changed the health and wellbeing of children. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between the home environment and the environmental characteristics on 5–18 years old children health in Iran. Method An online survey was conducted among parents of children aged 5 to 18 living in large cities in Iran in 2021. The statistical population of this cross-sect…
Towards an understanding of the different uses of sheep/goat and hare in Iberian South-Western Bronze Age funerary contexts
Analysis of Organic Residues in the Context of the Middle Bronze Age in the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula
This paper presents and discusses the results of chromatographic analyses conducted on the contents of a ceramic pot recovered from Cova da Moura, a coastal funerary context located on the western slope of the Serra de Santa Luzia in Carreço, within the municipality and district of Viana do Castelo, Northwest Portugal. The site was excavated in 1931 by Abel Viana, who uncovered a monument beneath a tumulus that concealed a cluster of granite outc…
Geography (22 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (13 works) · Environmental health (12 works) · Population (12 works) · Global Health Care Issues (11 works) · Archaeology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · Demography (9 works)