Teresa Alberto dos Santos |

Teresa Alberto dos Santos

Teresa Santos is a research assistant at the department of global and public health at Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden). With a strong background in economics, Teresa’s research focuses on health economics within implementation science, through the development of cost-effectiveness analyses of public health interventions and the optimization of implementation strategies from a health economic point of view. Teresa is passionate about using health economics to prove the benefit of preventive interventions across different public health areas, and is currently working in the fields of tuberculosis, maternal health, and obesity prevention. LinkedIn account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/teresa-santos-06b53715a

Jumping between band-aid solutions? A pilot for new obstetrics care in Lisbon, Portugal

When the baby comes, amid contractions and labor-related anxiety, few would think of calling a phone number to assess whether they should head to the maternity ward (or not). In Portugal, that is currently the reality for many pregnant women. Indeed, this is the focus of a pilot currently trialed in Lisbon, Portugal. In this pilot, pregnant ...

Unsafe abortion remains a problem in South Korea, in spite of the recent decriminalization

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