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16/10/2025
IRAPP study highlights the value of healthy eating education for vulnerable families
A study led by researcher Toni Mora, director of the Research Institute for Evaluation and Public Policies (IRAPP) at UIC Barcelona, reveals that vulnerable families with low incomes benefit more from workshops offering dietary guidance than from direct financial aid aimed at promoting healthy eating
04/09/2025
Dr Toni Mora, new dean of the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences
The director of the Institute for Research in Evaluation and Public Policies, Dr Toni Mora, was recently named dean of the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, a position he held between 2013 and 2016 and to which he has returned to “consolidate the Faculty’s international projects”
18/06/2025
Toni Mora analyses the use of public health apps at a new meeting of the European FLASH project at Vilnius University
Dr Toni Mora, director of the Institute for Research on Evaluation and Public Policy (IRAPP) at UIC Barcelona, recently took part in a new meeting of the European FLASH project held at Vilnius University (Lithuania). During the meeting, consortium members continued advancing the various research lines aimed at improving the efficiency and equity of European healthcare systems.
07/03/2025
12 women's voices from UIC Barcelona in celebration of 8 March
On International Women’s Day, which is celebrated on 8 March every year, we spoke to women in academia with positions of responsibility at UIC Barcelona and asked them to share some thoughts on the importance of female leadership at the University and the future of our students, the leaders of tomorrow.
17/10/2024
Dietary habits improve with nutrition education, according to a study led by Dr Toni Mora
A study carried out among more than a thousand participants by the Research Institute for Evaluation and Public Policies at UIC Barcelona and the Red Cross found that education is the most effective strategy for promoting healthy eating habits.Delivering workshops on nutrition is more effective than sending an SMS with nutritional information, although both are more important than providing a financial incentive.
21/06/2024
Toni Mora working on the FLASH European project to improve the efficiency of healthcare systems
The director of IRAPP attended the annual meeting of the European FLASH project in Catania (Italy) to present the progress of his work in the analysis of the cost-effectiveness of the La Meva Salut app
20/07/2023
Manuel Flores participates in the NBER International Social Security Conference in Stockholm (Sweden)
14/07/2023
Toni Mora participates in the publication of an article on differential healthcare costs for the non-adult ADHD population in Catalonia
The article, published in Springer Nature, collects data on more than one million individuals in Catalonia from different healthcare providers such as emergency services, general practitioners, mental health day centres or hospitalisations
17/03/2023
Dr Manuel Flores publishes an article analysing the links between early life health with later life health
The article, which has been published in the prestigious journal Demography, investigates the links and influence of diseases in early ages on life course health
26/10/2021
One study found that the Dual FP course (a vocational training course) improves academic performance and the probability of obtaining a qualification
The report analysed administrative data from vocational training courses between 2015 and 2019 and included 263.487 students from 457 training centres/schools
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