Health Economics and Public Policy

Affiliated Research areas

• Pharmacology and toxicology
• Microeconomics, industrial organisation, applied microeconomics

Scientific Areas

• not available

Keywords

• cost-effectiveness analyses
• Economics of Education
• Big Data
• Health Economics
• Economic Evaluation
• Health Policy
• Econometric Modelling
• Econometric Modelling
• Health Policy
• Health Economics
• Health services research
• Human resources in Health
• Suitability of technologies

Summary

- Health economy: Health Economics and health policy; econometric modelling of health and health care; organization, financing and health administration; fairness; application of simulation models to health planning and to health care management, Economics of Smoking; Economics of Dental Care. Studies of Drug Utilization; Human resources in Health
- Use of massive data in research in health services and policies: The availability of data on population and patient characteristics, as well as on their exposure to health services and health policies, has increased considerably in recent years, and the consequences of such exposure are also being recorded.
- Economic evaluation of health interventions: Methodology of cost-effectiveness analyses of health technologies. Measures of the efficiency threshold of health systems. Measures of well-being to quantify the effects of public policies in the health sector and to allow for multisectoral comparisons.