Rodrigo Moreno-Serra
Biographic Data
| ID | 2078303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rodrigo Moreno-Serra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rodrigo |
| FAMILY NAME | Moreno-Serra |
| SIGNATURE | MORENO-SERRA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6619-4560 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Public Policies and Femicides during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Health system financing fragmentation and maternal mortality transition in Mexico, 2000–2022
The results of this study confirm the close relationship between maternal mortality and social inequalities, and suggest that affiliation with social security has ceased to be a differentiating factor in recent years. Understanding the evolution of maternal mortality between the population with and without social security in Mexico allows us to quantify the gap in maternal deaths attributed to inequalities in access to maternal health services, w…
Public Healthcare Financing during Counterinsurgency Efforts
How do government counterinsurgency efforts affect local public health financing during civil conflicts? We investigate this question in the context of the protracted conflict in Colombia. Using data on antinarcotics operations and health transfers from the central government to municipal governments, we employ both panel estimations and an instrumental variable to address concerns of endogeneity. We first show evidence of a government discretion…
The effect of conflict-related violence intensity and alcohol use on mental health
We investigated the causal impact of conflict-related violence on individual mental health and its potential pathways in Colombia. Using data from before and after the 2016 peace accord between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), we adopted a difference-in-differences empirical design combined with instrumental variables estimation. We also used formal mediation analysis to investigate a possible mediat…
Ripe for better post-war governance? The impact of the 2016 peace agreement on the reestablishment of health services in Colombia
A peace agreement represents a chance for the state to renew its social contract with the conflict-affected population. Conflict may reoccur if their expectations of a peace dividend are disappointed. However, in the existing literature there is a lack of focus on post-war public services and the challenges to re-establishing effective state governance, especially in areas with significant rebel presence. Much of the literature still assumes that…
The role of primary healthcare amid the Covid-19 pandemic
What is the impact of forced displacement on health? A scoping review
While there is a broad literature analysing the effects of migration on health, important knowledge gaps persist particularly on the causal effects of forced displacement on health outcomes. We undertake a scoping review of applied epidemiological, statistical and econometric studies examining causal health impacts of forced displacement, which initially identified 1454 studies from the health and social sciences disciplines published up to May 2…
Covid-19 and violence against women
Addressing recall bias in (post-)conflict data collection and analysis
Our study makes a novel contribution to the field of applied health research in humanitarian settings, by providing practical methodological guidance for the implementation of data collection efforts in humanitarian contexts where recall information, collected from primary surveys, is required to allow assessments of changes in health and wellbeing. Key lessons include the importance of embedding appropriate strategies to test and address recall …
The Brazilian Family Health Strategy and adult health
Assessment of the association between the Brazilian family health strategy and adult mortality
This study aimed to analyse a wide range of related health problems that respond favourably to efficient primary care treatment among adults. We evaluate the direct impact of the Family Health Strategy (ESF) in Brazil on mortality of adults aged 25–64 years related to conditions for which access to effective primary care can reduce the likelihood of more severe outcomes. Additionally, we discuss heterogeneous effects associated with different int…
The impact of civil conflict on child health
Inequalities in catastrophic health expenditures in conflict-affected areas and the Colombian peace agreement
Conflict-deescalation and the peace agreement may have facilitated lower-income groups to have access to health services, especially in territories highly impacted by conflict. This, consequently, may have led to higher levels of out-of-pocket expenditures and, therefore, to higher chances of experiencing catastrophic expenditures for lower-income groups in comparison to higher-income groups. Therefore, results indicate the importance of designin…
A light of hope? Inequalities in mental health before and after the peace agreement in Colombia
The reduction in the contribution of conflict-related variables for explaining mental health inequalities could mean that the negative consequences of conflict on mental health have started to diminish in the short run after the peace agreement. Nevertheless, conflict and the presence of other socioeconomic inequalities still contribute to persistent adverse mental health outcomes in the overall population. Thus, public policy should be oriented …
Health-related quality of life of a conflict-affected population in Colombia
We found EQ-5D to be a valid instrument for HRQoL measurement in a conflict-affected population. Area conflict intensity was negatively associated with individual HRQoL
Socioeconomic inequality in premiums for a community-based health insurance scheme in Rwanda
Community-based health insurance (CBHI) has gained popularity in many low- and middle-income countries, partly as a policy response to calls for low-cost, pro-poor health financing solutions. In Africa, Rwanda has successfully implemented two types of CBHI systems since 2005, one of which with a flat rate premium (2005–10) and the other with a stratified premium (2011–present). Existing CBHI evaluations have, however, tended to ignore the potenti…
Mejor gasto para mejores vidas
El gasto público ha aumentado en América Latina y el Caribe. Aprovechando las bajas tasas de interés y las ganancias extraordinarias de los productos básicos, muchos gobiernos de la región intentaron abrirse camino hacia el futuro. Lamentablemente, la fiesta se acabó y los responsables de las políticas públicas deberán encontrar la manera de mantener sus economías en crecimiento y a sus ciudadanos felices de manera sostenible desde el punto de vi…
Does progress towards universal health coverage improve population health?
Covid-19 and violence against women
Ripe for better post-war governance? The impact of the 2016 peace agreement on the reestablishment of health services in Colombia
A peace agreement represents a chance for the state to renew its social contract with the conflict-affected population. Conflict may reoccur if their expectations of a peace dividend are disappointed. However, in the existing literature there is a lack of focus on post-war public services and the challenges to re-establishing effective state governance, especially in areas with significant rebel presence. Much of the literature still assumes that…
The role of primary healthcare amid the Covid-19 pandemic
Does progress towards universal health coverage improve population health?
Mejor gasto para mejores vidas
El gasto público ha aumentado en América Latina y el Caribe. Aprovechando las bajas tasas de interés y las ganancias extraordinarias de los productos básicos, muchos gobiernos de la región intentaron abrirse camino hacia el futuro. Lamentablemente, la fiesta se acabó y los responsables de las políticas públicas deberán encontrar la manera de mantener sus economías en crecimiento y a sus ciudadanos felices de manera sostenible desde el punto de vi…
The impact of civil conflict on child health
Inequalities in catastrophic health expenditures in conflict-affected areas and the Colombian peace agreement
Conflict-deescalation and the peace agreement may have facilitated lower-income groups to have access to health services, especially in territories highly impacted by conflict. This, consequently, may have led to higher levels of out-of-pocket expenditures and, therefore, to higher chances of experiencing catastrophic expenditures for lower-income groups in comparison to higher-income groups. Therefore, results indicate the importance of designin…
A light of hope? Inequalities in mental health before and after the peace agreement in Colombia
The reduction in the contribution of conflict-related variables for explaining mental health inequalities could mean that the negative consequences of conflict on mental health have started to diminish in the short run after the peace agreement. Nevertheless, conflict and the presence of other socioeconomic inequalities still contribute to persistent adverse mental health outcomes in the overall population. Thus, public policy should be oriented …
Health-related quality of life of a conflict-affected population in Colombia
We found EQ-5D to be a valid instrument for HRQoL measurement in a conflict-affected population. Area conflict intensity was negatively associated with individual HRQoL
Socioeconomic inequality in premiums for a community-based health insurance scheme in Rwanda
Community-based health insurance (CBHI) has gained popularity in many low- and middle-income countries, partly as a policy response to calls for low-cost, pro-poor health financing solutions. In Africa, Rwanda has successfully implemented two types of CBHI systems since 2005, one of which with a flat rate premium (2005–10) and the other with a stratified premium (2011–present). Existing CBHI evaluations have, however, tended to ignore the potenti…
Addressing recall bias in (post-)conflict data collection and analysis
Our study makes a novel contribution to the field of applied health research in humanitarian settings, by providing practical methodological guidance for the implementation of data collection efforts in humanitarian contexts where recall information, collected from primary surveys, is required to allow assessments of changes in health and wellbeing. Key lessons include the importance of embedding appropriate strategies to test and address recall …
The Brazilian Family Health Strategy and adult health
Assessment of the association between the Brazilian family health strategy and adult mortality
This study aimed to analyse a wide range of related health problems that respond favourably to efficient primary care treatment among adults. We evaluate the direct impact of the Family Health Strategy (ESF) in Brazil on mortality of adults aged 25–64 years related to conditions for which access to effective primary care can reduce the likelihood of more severe outcomes. Additionally, we discuss heterogeneous effects associated with different int…
What is the impact of forced displacement on health? A scoping review
While there is a broad literature analysing the effects of migration on health, important knowledge gaps persist particularly on the causal effects of forced displacement on health outcomes. We undertake a scoping review of applied epidemiological, statistical and econometric studies examining causal health impacts of forced displacement, which initially identified 1454 studies from the health and social sciences disciplines published up to May 2…
Covid-19 and violence against women
Public Healthcare Financing during Counterinsurgency Efforts
How do government counterinsurgency efforts affect local public health financing during civil conflicts? We investigate this question in the context of the protracted conflict in Colombia. Using data on antinarcotics operations and health transfers from the central government to municipal governments, we employ both panel estimations and an instrumental variable to address concerns of endogeneity. We first show evidence of a government discretion…
The effect of conflict-related violence intensity and alcohol use on mental health
We investigated the causal impact of conflict-related violence on individual mental health and its potential pathways in Colombia. Using data from before and after the 2016 peace accord between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), we adopted a difference-in-differences empirical design combined with instrumental variables estimation. We also used formal mediation analysis to investigate a possible mediat…
Ripe for better post-war governance? The impact of the 2016 peace agreement on the reestablishment of health services in Colombia
A peace agreement represents a chance for the state to renew its social contract with the conflict-affected population. Conflict may reoccur if their expectations of a peace dividend are disappointed. However, in the existing literature there is a lack of focus on post-war public services and the challenges to re-establishing effective state governance, especially in areas with significant rebel presence. Much of the literature still assumes that…
The role of primary healthcare amid the Covid-19 pandemic
Public Policies and Femicides during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Health system financing fragmentation and maternal mortality transition in Mexico, 2000–2022
The results of this study confirm the close relationship between maternal mortality and social inequalities, and suggest that affiliation with social security has ceased to be a differentiating factor in recent years. Understanding the evolution of maternal mortality between the population with and without social security in Mexico allows us to quantify the gap in maternal deaths attributed to inequalities in access to maternal health services, w…
Medicine (14 works) · Economics (12 works) · Environmental health (12 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Population (9 works) · Healthcare Systems and Reforms (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Global Health Care Issues (6 works) · Health and Conflict Studies (6 works)