A5025229010- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Global Health Care Issues
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Merger and Competition Analysis
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization
- Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Economic theories and models
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Housing Market and Economics
- Business Strategy and Innovation
- Auction Theory and Applications
- Health Services Management and Policy
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues
- Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
University of York
2016-2025
Norwegian School of Economics
2014-2017
University of Bergen
2017
Center for Economic and Policy Research
2015
University of Minho
2014
University of Brescia
2014
Centre for Economic Policy Research
2007-2014
Fafo Foundation
2014
Waiting times for elective treatments are a key health-policy concern in several OECD countries. This study describes common measures of waiting from administrative data across It focuses on procedures, such as hip and knee replacement, cataract surgery, where notoriously long. provides comparative 12 countries presents trends over the last decade. appear to be low Netherlands Denmark. In decade United Kingdom (in particular England), Finland have witnessed large reductions which can...
The impact of digitalization health services has been profound and is expected to be even more in the future. It important evaluate whether digital contribute system goals an optimal way. This should done at level service, not 'digital transformation'. Decisions adopt new services, different levels care system, are ideally based on evidence regarding their performance light goals. In order this, a broad perspective taken evaluations services. Attainment goals, including quality, efficiency...
Abstract We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both introducing (monopoly versus competition) and increasing through either lower transportation costs (increased substitutability) or a higher number hospitals. With semi‐altruistic providers fairly general cost structure, we show that relationship between is generally ambiguous. In contrast to received body theoretical literature, this consistent with, potentially explains,...
The implications of hospital quality competition depend on what type affects choice hospital. Previous studies and hospitals have used crude measures such as mortality readmission rates rather than the health gain from specific treatments. We estimate multinomial logit models by patients undergoing hip replacement surgery in English NHS to test whether demand responds measured detailed patient reports before after replacement. find that a one standard deviation increase average increases up...
Equity of access is a key policy objective in publicly-funded healthcare systems. However, observed inequalities by socioeconomic status may result from differences patients’ choices. Using data on non-emergency coronary revascularisation procedures the English National Health Service, we found substantive waiting times within public hospitals between patients with different status: up to 35% difference, or 43 days, most and least deprived population quintile groups. selection models...
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the impact of sugar‐sweetened beverages (SSB) taxes on consumption, bodyweight and tax burden for low‐income, middle‐income high‐income groups using an Almost Ideal Demand System 2011 Household level scanner data. A significant contribution our is that we compare two types SSB recently advocated by policy makers: 20% flat rate sales (valoric) a 20 cent/L volumetric tax. Censored demand accounted two‐step procedure. We find would result in greater per capita...
Waiting times for specialist consultation and non-emergency surgery are often considered an equitable rationing mechanism in the public healthcare sector, because access to care is not based on socioeconomic status. This study tests empirically this claim using data from Survey of Health, Ageing Retirement Europe (SHARE). The sample includes nine European countries: Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Spain Sweden. For consultation, we find that individuals with...
Abstract Hospital bed‐blocking occurs when hospital patients are ready to be discharged a nursing home, but no place is available, so that care acts as more costly substitute for long‐term care. We investigate the extent which greater supply of home beds or lower prices can reduce using new Local Authority (LA) level administrative data from England on delayed discharges in 2009–2013. The results suggest respond availability beds, effect modest: an increase by 10% (250 additional per LA)...
We investigate (a) how patient choice of hospital for elective hip replacement is influenced by distance, quality and waiting times, (b) differences in choices between patients urban rural locations, (c) the relationship hospitals' elasticities demand to number local rivals, these changed after relaxation constraints on England 2006. Using a data set over 500,000 period 2002 2013 we find that became more likely travel provider with higher or lower proportion bypassing their nearest increased...
We examine whether a hospital's quality is affected by the provided other hospitals in same market. first sketch theoretical model with regulated prices and derive conditions on demand cost functions which determine hospital will increase its if rivals their quality. then apply spatial econometric methods to sample of English 2009–10 set 16 measures including mortality rates, readmission, revision redo three patient reported indicators, relationship between hospitals. find that positively...
This study provides an overview of policies affecting competition amongst hospitals and GPs in five European countries: France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway Portugal. Drawing on the empirical evidence described case studies, we find both similarities differences approaches adopted. Constraints patients' choices provider have been relaxed but countries differ amount type information that is provided public domain. Hospitals are increasingly paid via fixed prices per patient to encourage them...
We study whether hospitals that exhibit systematically higher bed occupancy rates are associated with lower quality in England over 2010/11-2017/18. develop an economic conceptual framework to guide our empirical analysis and run regressions inform possible policy interventions. First, we a pooled OLS regression test if high is with, therefore acts as signal of, quality, which could trigger additional regulation. Second, this association explained by exogenous demand-supply factors such...