Health Economics and Public Policy

Affiliated Research areas

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

Scientific Areas

• Not available

Keywords

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

Summary

- 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.
- 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
- 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.