Sofia Vaz

ORCID: 0000-0003-1910-5753
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Research Areas
  • Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies
  • Historical and socio-economic studies of Spain and related regions
  • Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
  • Health, Nursing, Elderly Care
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Healthcare innovation and challenges
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Religious Tourism and Spaces
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Historical Education and Society
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
  • Cardiovascular Syncope and Autonomic Disorders
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Agricultural and Food Sciences

Portuguese Environment Agency
2025

Instituto Federal Farroupilha
2023

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
2023

University of Minho
2023

Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital
2019

Sorbonne Université
2019

Universidade do Porto
2014-2016

Administração Regional de Saúde de Lisboa e Vale do Tejo
2016

Administração Regional de Saúde do Norte IP
2016

University of Coimbra
2015

The Archiv-Ave project “Digital memory - Documentary heritage of the Ave basin” was born out need to recover and rehabilitate important historical collection Portuguese Environment Agency (PEA), in a collaboration between University Minho, PEA “Casa de Sarmento”. With this work, we intend analyze sources that allowed identify evaluate activities were carried since 2014, year which began, until present day, demonstrate importance organization, conservation dissemination fundamental public...

10.17561/at.25.7937 article EN Agua y Territorio / Water and Landscape 2025-01-17

Distance patients have to travel has shown influence demand for several health services. Our work looks at this effect on the utilization of Emergency Departments (ED) in Portugal. We build upon previous works by taking into account both severity emergency visits and type ED including a set other variables that utilization. Overall, we find distance-elasticity care ranges from -1 -2 (a 10% increase distance results 10-20% decrease utilization), with low-severity having highest high-severity...

10.1590/s0104-12902014000400003 article EN cc-by Saúde e Sociedade 2014-12-01

In Portugal, Civil Servants may have a differential utilization of health services due to their supplementary Health Subsystem (ADSE), which grants them access in the private sector at lower price. We exploit impact this double coverage on demand for Portuguese Public Emergency Departments (ED), following recent increase co-payments public care Portugal.Using detailed ED level data from three different EDs, one each care, we rely difference-in-differences strategy, under assumption that both...

10.1186/s13561-016-0093-7 article EN cc-by Health Economics Review 2016-05-12

Maria Norberta Amorim, a pioneer in Historical Demography Portugal, since the 1970s developed and systematically applied parish reconstruction method. Currently, her contribution is materialized National Genealogical Repository of Portugal (RGN), based Casa de Sarmento (Guimarães). It central database, free open access, whose use allows systematize information from registers between 16th 18th centuries.

10.53335/cliocanarias.2023.5.14 article EN Cliocanarias 2023-01-01
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