segunda-feira, 05/06/2023
Anfiteatro EPsi | 14h30
Francisca Vargas Lopes
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC & Erasmus Centre for Health Economics Rotterdam
Abstract:
The first part of the seminar is devoted to what evidence-based mental health policy means. We start with an introduction to the concept of evidence-based policy and move towards discussing the ideal targets of such a policy. This includes reflecting not only on mental health care system benchmarks but also on how to tackle the social determinants of mental health and integrate mental health policy into the youth, education, labour, and welfare agendas. In the second part of the seminar, we discuss how to implement evidence-based mental health policy, including the type of indicators to be measured, methods to monitor and evaluate policy and programs, and the pitfalls of performance measurement and of bridging research and policy worlds. The seminar concludes interactively, with participants reflecting on the content to identify opportunities for fostering evidence-based practices in their ecosystems as well as the associated challenges.
Francisca Vargas
Lopes é investigadora na Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management.
O seu trabalho de investigação dedica-se aos tópicos da saúde mental,
desigualdades em saúde e em cuidados de saúde, e desenvolvimento de evidência
para informar política pública. Como investigadora desempenhou funções no Directorate
of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs da OCDE, departamentos de Social
Policy e de Psychological and Behavioural Science da LSE, no think-thank
Nuffield Trust e na equipa de Health Value for Money do National Audit
Office. Fazem ainda parte da sua experiência profissional posições de
Outcomes Consultant e Outcomes Research Manager em multinacionais de
indústria farmacêutica e de analista e consultora no Centro de Medicina Baseada
na Evidência, da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa.
