Pedro P Barros
Biographic Data
| ID | 1846843 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pedro P Barros |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pedro P |
| FAMILY NAME | Barros |
| SIGNATURE | BARROS P P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0881-4928 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How the four-day working week could affect health
Politics and confidence toward the Covid-19 vaccination
This study has the aim of assessing the Brazilian perceptions, influencing factors and political positioning on the confidence concerning COVID-19 vaccination. To achieve the objective, the methods rely on a cross-sectional survey of Brazilian citizens, distributed through different social networks. The sample is composed of 1,670 valid responses, collected from almost all Brazilian states and state capitals. To analyze the data and give a clear …
Health Policy – the best evidence for better policies
Health-related quality of life in seven European countries throughout the course of the Covid-19 pandemic
Across seven European countries, we found large proportions of respondents reporting problems in HRQoL dimensions throughout the pandemic, especially for anxiety/depression. Various sociodemographic and COVID-19-related variables were associated with HRQoL in longitudinal analysis
Business as usual? How the pharmaceutical industry protected its long-term interests during and after eurozone bailouts (2011–2020)
In this article, we start from the assumption that the pharmaceutical industry accumulates material, instrumental, ideational and institutional power. Considering this, we expect that it would be very difficult for governments to reduce the rents of pharmaceutical companies in the long-term, even when the former are externally constrained to reduce their spending. We test our argument by carrying out a qualitative analysis of a paradigmatic case …
Running away from the jab
OBJECTIVE: To investigate how sociodemographic conditions, political factors, organizational confidence, and non-pharmaceutical interventions compliance affect the COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Brazil. METHODS: Data collection took place between November 25th, 2020 and January 11th, 2021 using a nationwide online survey. Subsequently, the researches performed a descriptive analysis on the main variables and used logistic regression models to inve…
Covid-19, Fake News, and Vaccines
We analysed issues concerning the establishment of compulsory vaccination against COVID-19, as well as the role of misinformation as a disincentive-especially when published by health professionals-and citizen acceptance of measures in this regard. Data from different surveys revealed a high degree of hesitation rather than outright opposition to vaccines. The most frequent complaint related to the COVID-19 vaccination was the fear of side effect…
Resilience Testing of Health Systems
The resilience of health systems has received considerable attention as of late, yet little is known about what a resilience test might look like. We develop a resilience test concept and methodology. We describe key components of a toolkit and a 5-phased approach to implementation of resilience testing that can be adapted to individual health systems. We develop a methodology for a test that is balanced in terms of standardization and system-spe…
Strengthening vaccination programmes and health systems in the European Union
United but divided
To understand the public sentiment toward the measures used by policymakers for COVID-19 containment, a survey among representative samples of the population in seven European countries was carried out in the first two weeks of April 2020. The study addressed people's support for containment policies, worries about COVID-19 consequences, and trust in sources of information. Citizens were overall satisfied with their government's response to the p…
How to Combine Public Spending with Fiscal Rigour? ‘Austerity by Stealth’ in Post-Bailout Portugal (2015-2019)
In this article, we argue that the Costa I Socialist government (2015–2019) managed to combine responsiveness to voters with responsibility towards domestic and international actors by pursuing some kind of ‘austerity by stealth’, which we define as less visible fiscal contraction that is not displayed by the government in its public discourse. The radical left parties implicitly agreed with this strategy in exchange for the adoption of a long li…
More than just numbers
Suicides are a major concern for public health first and foremost because they are an avoidable cause of death. Moreover, they can be an indicator of self-reported emotional satisfaction and a good marker of overall well-being. In this study we examine how different economic and social aspects affected Portuguese suicide rates for more than one hundred years (1910-2013). We place this exercise in the specific historical context of the XX and earl…
Transversal Agency and Crowding Out
A country's competition agency is transversal in the sense of being active in the whole economy. We study the interaction between the competition agency and sectoral regulators and establish a scope for sectoral regulators to crowd out each other's efforts: More effort on monitoring anticompetitive behavior by one sectoral regulator causes others to do less. We also find that when government agencies interact under consensus the competition agenc…
The impact of pharmaceutical policy measures
Social Norms and the Paradox of Elections? Turnout
An Economic Theory of Church Strictness
Journal Article An Economic Theory of Church Strictness Get access Pedro Pita Barros, Pedro Pita Barros Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Centre for Economic Policy Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Nuno Garoupa Nuno Garoupa Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Centre for Economic Policy Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 112, Issu…
An Economic Theory of Church Strictness
Journal Article An Economic Theory of Church Strictness Get access Pedro Pita Barros, Pedro Pita Barros Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Centre for Economic Policy Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Nuno Garoupa Nuno Garoupa Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Centre for Economic Policy Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 112, Issu…
How to Combine Public Spending with Fiscal Rigour? ‘Austerity by Stealth’ in Post-Bailout Portugal (2015-2019)
In this article, we argue that the Costa I Socialist government (2015–2019) managed to combine responsiveness to voters with responsibility towards domestic and international actors by pursuing some kind of ‘austerity by stealth’, which we define as less visible fiscal contraction that is not displayed by the government in its public discourse. The radical left parties implicitly agreed with this strategy in exchange for the adoption of a long li…
Business as usual? How the pharmaceutical industry protected its long-term interests during and after eurozone bailouts (2011–2020)
In this article, we start from the assumption that the pharmaceutical industry accumulates material, instrumental, ideational and institutional power. Considering this, we expect that it would be very difficult for governments to reduce the rents of pharmaceutical companies in the long-term, even when the former are externally constrained to reduce their spending. We test our argument by carrying out a qualitative analysis of a paradigmatic case …
An Economic Theory of Church Strictness
Journal Article An Economic Theory of Church Strictness Get access Pedro Pita Barros, Pedro Pita Barros Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Centre for Economic Policy Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Nuno Garoupa Nuno Garoupa Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Centre for Economic Policy Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 112, Issu…
Social Norms and the Paradox of Elections? Turnout
The impact of pharmaceutical policy measures
Transversal Agency and Crowding Out
A country's competition agency is transversal in the sense of being active in the whole economy. We study the interaction between the competition agency and sectoral regulators and establish a scope for sectoral regulators to crowd out each other's efforts: More effort on monitoring anticompetitive behavior by one sectoral regulator causes others to do less. We also find that when government agencies interact under consensus the competition agenc…
More than just numbers
Suicides are a major concern for public health first and foremost because they are an avoidable cause of death. Moreover, they can be an indicator of self-reported emotional satisfaction and a good marker of overall well-being. In this study we examine how different economic and social aspects affected Portuguese suicide rates for more than one hundred years (1910-2013). We place this exercise in the specific historical context of the XX and earl…
Strengthening vaccination programmes and health systems in the European Union
United but divided
To understand the public sentiment toward the measures used by policymakers for COVID-19 containment, a survey among representative samples of the population in seven European countries was carried out in the first two weeks of April 2020. The study addressed people's support for containment policies, worries about COVID-19 consequences, and trust in sources of information. Citizens were overall satisfied with their government's response to the p…
How to Combine Public Spending with Fiscal Rigour? ‘Austerity by Stealth’ in Post-Bailout Portugal (2015-2019)
In this article, we argue that the Costa I Socialist government (2015–2019) managed to combine responsiveness to voters with responsibility towards domestic and international actors by pursuing some kind of ‘austerity by stealth’, which we define as less visible fiscal contraction that is not displayed by the government in its public discourse. The radical left parties implicitly agreed with this strategy in exchange for the adoption of a long li…
Running away from the jab
OBJECTIVE: To investigate how sociodemographic conditions, political factors, organizational confidence, and non-pharmaceutical interventions compliance affect the COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Brazil. METHODS: Data collection took place between November 25th, 2020 and January 11th, 2021 using a nationwide online survey. Subsequently, the researches performed a descriptive analysis on the main variables and used logistic regression models to inve…
Covid-19, Fake News, and Vaccines
We analysed issues concerning the establishment of compulsory vaccination against COVID-19, as well as the role of misinformation as a disincentive-especially when published by health professionals-and citizen acceptance of measures in this regard. Data from different surveys revealed a high degree of hesitation rather than outright opposition to vaccines. The most frequent complaint related to the COVID-19 vaccination was the fear of side effect…
Resilience Testing of Health Systems
The resilience of health systems has received considerable attention as of late, yet little is known about what a resilience test might look like. We develop a resilience test concept and methodology. We describe key components of a toolkit and a 5-phased approach to implementation of resilience testing that can be adapted to individual health systems. We develop a methodology for a test that is balanced in terms of standardization and system-spe…
Health Policy – the best evidence for better policies
Health-related quality of life in seven European countries throughout the course of the Covid-19 pandemic
Across seven European countries, we found large proportions of respondents reporting problems in HRQoL dimensions throughout the pandemic, especially for anxiety/depression. Various sociodemographic and COVID-19-related variables were associated with HRQoL in longitudinal analysis
Business as usual? How the pharmaceutical industry protected its long-term interests during and after eurozone bailouts (2011–2020)
In this article, we start from the assumption that the pharmaceutical industry accumulates material, instrumental, ideational and institutional power. Considering this, we expect that it would be very difficult for governments to reduce the rents of pharmaceutical companies in the long-term, even when the former are externally constrained to reduce their spending. We test our argument by carrying out a qualitative analysis of a paradigmatic case …
Politics and confidence toward the Covid-19 vaccination
This study has the aim of assessing the Brazilian perceptions, influencing factors and political positioning on the confidence concerning COVID-19 vaccination. To achieve the objective, the methods rely on a cross-sectional survey of Brazilian citizens, distributed through different social networks. The sample is composed of 1,670 valid responses, collected from almost all Brazilian states and state capitals. To analyze the data and give a clear …
How the four-day working week could affect health
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