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Maria Luisa Rodero Cosano holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of Cordoba. She is currently working as lecturer at University Loyola Andalucía in Math and Engineering area. Her current researches include latent variable analysis, structural equation models, the social indicators especially those involved in regional and development policies, technical efficiency in health areas and spatial analysis applied to epidemiological health studies related. Additionally, she has collaborated in the preparation of a health atlas in different regions, as Cataluña, Madrid and Pais Vasco, where health services are studied, spatially analysed and mapped through Geographical Information Systems (GIS), as well as international projects, for example, “Research on Financing systems’ Effect on the Quality of Mental health care”, with PSICOST research association and Universidad Loyola Andalucía. Currently, is  CoIP of the project "Refinement - Spain", financed by the I.S.Carlos III.

• Online sustainability information in European local governments: An explicative model to improve transparency.
• A multi-level analysis of the relationship between spatial clusters of outpatient-treated depression, risk factors and mental health service planning in Catalonia (Spain).
• Applying an Evolutionary Algorithm for the Analysis of Mental Disorders in Macro-urban Areas: The Case of Barcelona.
• Changes in socioeconomic determinants of health: comparing the effect of social and economic indicators through European welfare state regimes.
• A deprivation analysis for Andalusia (Spain): an approach based on structural equations.

• Estimación del impacto económico y social de los trastornos mentales comunes en España