Health Systems in Transition

Acknowledgements

he HiT on Portugal was co-produced by the European Observatory on

Health Systems and Policies and the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical

Medicine at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, which is a member of the

Health Systems and Policy Monitor (HSPM) network.

The HSPM is an international network that works with the Observatory

on Country Monitoring. It is made up of national counterparts that are highly

regarded at national and international level and have particular strengths in the

areas of health systems, health services, public health and health management

research. They draw on their own extensive networks in the health field and

their track record of successful collaboration with the Observatory to develop

and update the HiT.

The Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (

Instituto de Higiene

e Medicina Tropical

, IHMT) has been an academic unit of the NOVA University

of Lisbon (

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

) since 1980. IHMT’s activity is

characterized by postgraduate training, research and cooperation towards

development. IHMT has been recognized at national and international level,

for its scientific quality in postgraduate teaching and excellency in specific

areas of research, which are focused on tropical medicine and health-related

areas considered problematic in developing countries. For further details see

. Global Health and Tropical Medicine is an R&D Centre

that brings together researchers from IHMT with a track record in Tropical

Medicine and International/Global Health.

This edition was written by Jorge de Almeida Simões, Gonçalo Figueiredo

Augusto and Inês Fronteira (Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,

NOVA University of Lisbon). It was edited by Cristina Hernández-Quevedo,

working with the support of Ellen Nolte, London Hub Coordinator of the

European Observatory of Health Systems and Policies. The basis for this edition