Latest News from NHEM

December 2025 | Self-medication in Portugal: Practices, Determinants, and Behavioral Profiles - <p>The report &ldquo;Self-medication in Portugal: Practices, Determinants, and Behavioral Profiles&rdquo; analyzes how residents in Portugal manage episodes of illness in their daily lives through...</p>
WORKING PAPER | Pricing Mechanisms for Multi-Indication Drugs - <p>Multi-indication drugs &ndash; the same drug used across different diseases, lines of therapy or treatment phases &ndash; create major challenges for pricing, access and incentives for...</p>
PAPER | Mapping Methodologies for Economic Evaluation of Digital Health Technologies: A Scoping Review. - <p>A new scoping review has just been published in <em>Value in Health</em>:<br /> <strong>&ldquo;Mapping Methodologies for Economic Evaluation of Digital Health Technologies: A Scoping Review.&rdquo;</strong></p>
Book Release | Open Doors, Strained Health Systems: Lessons from International Experiences - <p>This book is the product of collaborative work by Master&#39;s students at Nova School of Business and Economics. Each chapter looks into a specific country&#39;s emergency department issues,...</p>
10 | October 2025 | State Budget for Health: Ambition or Fiction? - <p>This policy brief examines the 2026 State Budget projections for the health sector.</p>
PUBLICATION | Building the Artificial Intelligence Strategy for the Portuguese National Health Service: Key Considerations - <p>The implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare systems &mdash; and particularly within the Portuguese National Health Service (SNS) &mdash; represents both a transformative...</p>
VOICES | from "Medica Ai The Conference, Champalimaud Foundation" by Inês Lopes - <p>Inês Margarida Lopes, MSc Student and Member of the Nova SBE Health Economics &amp; Management Knowledge Center, attended <em data-end="333" data-start="305">Medica AI &ndash; The Conference</em> at the Champalimaud Foundation. In her...</p>
PAPER | The Impact of Multimarket Competition on Generic Drugs' Regulated Prices - <p>Do more rivals mean lower drug prices?&nbsp;Not always. In Portugal, even with price caps and multiple generic competitors, many drugs remained priced at or near their regulatory ceilings.</p>
PAPER | Community-based interventions to improve the health of migrant children in high-income countries: a systematic review. - <p>We are excited to share new research just published in <em data-end="117" data-start="90">Social Science &amp; Medicine</em>:<br data-end="121" data-start="118" /> &nbsp;</p>
Health Spending Observatory 09 | June 2025 | Trends in Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditures in Portugal - <p>This publication examines the evolution of out-of-pocket health expenditures between 2015 and 2022, drawing on data from the Household Budget Survey conducted by the National Statistics Institute.</p>
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