Faculty
Presentation
Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Systems Policy and Management and member of the Public Health Research Center (CISP) and the Comprehensive Health Research Center.
She has a PhD in Public Health from NOVA NSPH and a postgraduate degree in Hospital Administration from NOVA NSPH, where she was a researcher in the Department of Health Systems Policy and Management for ten years. She is currently a researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical at the International Center for Eye Health.
Her areas of research interest are the organization of health care provision, the integration of health care, health financing and payment modalities for providers and economic evaluation in health.
Teaching
Co-coordinator of the Postgraduate Degree in Health Auditing, a new proposal in partnership with the Portuguese Institute of Internal Auditing;
Participation in the Financing and Financial Analysis in Health Organizations UC for the Hospital Administration Specialization Course;
Coordination and participation in the Financial Management UC of the Hospital Administration Specialization Course.
Research
Lancet Commission on Global Eye Health (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine/ International Center for Eye Health October 2019 to date)
Cost-benefit analysis of the new hospital in Alentejo (Administração Regional de Saúde do Alentejo, 2019)
The use of anti-vegf in the Portuguese national health service (Novartis/ National School of Public Health 2019)
Study of multiple avoidable admissions to hospital: the influence of diabetes (NOVASaúde 2017-2018).
Impact assessment of the creation of ULS in Portugal (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 2015-2016).
Prevalence and costs of visual impairment in Portugal - a hospital study (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia 2013-2015).
Study on the degree of integration in health care - EGIOS (Central Administration of the Health System, 2014-2015).
Definition of a financing model for integrated long-term care (Central Administration of the Health System, 2013).
Identification of installed telemedicine capacity in Portugal (Calouste de Gulbenkian Foundation, 2012-2013)
Study of cost and production levels and the definition of prices in the Portuguese health system (Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation, 2009-2010).
Definition of a Model for Monitoring Local Health Units (Central Administration of the Health System, 2009-2010).
Publications
- Philippin H, Matayan E, Knoll K, Macha E, Mbishi S, Makupa A, Matsinhe C, Gama V, Monjane M, Ncheda A, Mulobuana F, Fopoussi N, Gazzard G, Marques AP, Shah P, Macleod D, Makupa W, Burton M. Selective laser trabeculoplasty versus timolol 0.5% eye drops for the treatment of glaucoma: a randomised controlled trial in Tanzania. Lancet Glob Health. 2021 Nov;9(11):e1589-e1599. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00348-X. Epub 2021 Oct 13.
- Burton M, Ramke J, Marques AP, Bourne R, Congdon N, Foster A, Faal H, et al The Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health: vision beyond 2020. Lancet Glob Health. 2021 Apr;9(4):e489-e551. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30488-5. Epub 2021 Feb 16.
- Marques AP, Ramke J, Cairns J, Butt T, Zhang J, Muirhead D, Jones I, Ah Tong B, Swenor B, Faal H, Bourne R, Frick K, Burton M. Global economic productivity losses from vision impairment and blindness. EClinical Medicine. 2021 Apr 26;35:100852. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100852.
- Marques AP, Ramke J, Cairns J, Butt T, Zhang J, Faal H, Taylor H, Jones I, Congdon N, Bastawrous A, Braithwaite T, Jovic M, Resnikoff S, Nandakumar A, Peng K, Bourne R, Gordon I, Frick K, Burton M. Estimating the global cost of Vision Impairment and its major causes: protocol for a systematic review. BMJ Open. 2020;10:e036689. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2019-036689.
- Yoshizaki M, Ramke J, Furtado J, Burn H, Gichui S, Gordon I, Aghaji A, Marques AP, William D, Congdon N, Sun Yat-Sen, Buchan J, Burton M. Interventions to improve quality of cataract services: protocol for a global scoping review. BMJ Open. 2020 Aug; 10 (8) :e036413. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-036413.
- Hernández-Moreno L, Senra H, Lewis P, Moreno N, Linhares J, Santana R, Ramos, PL, Marques AP, Macedo AF. Cost-effectiveness of basic vision rehabilitation (The basic VRS-effect study): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Ophthalmic Physiol Opt. 2020 May;40(3):350-364. doi: 10.1111/opo.12665. Epub 2020Jan 27.
- Rocha JVM, Marques AP, Moita B, Santana R. Direct and lost productivity costs associated with avoidable hospital admissions. BMC Health Serv Res. 2020 Mar 13;20(1):210. doi: 10.1186/s12913-020-5071-4.