Profile

Biography

Rita is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Economics in the Primary Care Team which is the York part of the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre. She has a BSc in Economics from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and a MSc in Applied Economics from the same institution.

Her research interests are centered on equity in primary care, incentives for quality in primary care, budgets for general practices, geographical distribution of GPs and the application of micro and spatial econometrics to health economics.

Research

Overview

• Equity in primary care
• Incentives for quality in primary care
• Budgets for general practices
• Geographical distribution of GPs
• The application of micro and spatial econometrics to health economics

Research group(s)

• Health Policy Team

Publications

Full publications list

2011

• Gravelle H, Hole AR, Santos R. Measuring and testing for gender discrimination in physician pay: English family doctors. Journal of Health Economics 2011;30(4):660-74.

2009

• Santana P, Santos R, Nogueira H. The link between local environment and obesity: A multilevel analysis in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Portugal. Social Science & Medicine 2009; 68(4): 601–609