Current research projects

• FFallss Predictor

  This is a 2 year project funded by EiT Health staring January 2019. It involves collaboration with … »

• iPDMgo

  This is a 2 year project funded by EiT Health starting January 2019. The project is a collaboration … »

• Equity and the Socioeconomic Impact of Disease Management Programmes in Denmark

  This project aims to investigate two important challenges for health economics research. First, how … »

• Causal effects of long‐term care

  Principal investigator Mette Gørtz The research team Mette Gørtz (University of Copenhagen) Eddy van … »

• Mortality after AMI

  Principal investigator Mette Gørtz The reasearch team Mette Gørtz (University of Copenhagen) … »

• The Role of Primary Care‐Physicians in Health and Wellbeing

  Pricipal investigator Torben Heien Nielsen The research team Torben Heien Nielsen (University of … »

• Behavioral responses to health innovations and the consequences for socioeconomic outcomes

  The growing gap in health is a challenge for society that this research team will shed light on over … »

• The White Death, Public Policy, and Economic Development.

  This project studies the consequences of public policies targeted at reducing tuberculosis (TB) … »

• Dynamic Aspects of Competition: Optimal Regulation of the Pharmaceutical Market

  The market for prescription drugs is one of the most heavily regulated markets. In this empirical … »

• Labour market epidemiology – the unequal employment consequences of long term illness

  In spite of several economic and educational efforts the number out of work on social benefits is … »

• Development of methods for quantitative health impact assessments

  We have estimated the effect on tobacco-related illness and death of different intervention … »

• Social inequalities in health – determinants and mechanisms

  We focus on understanding the mechanisms driving the comparatively large growing inequalities in … »

• Comparing, Explaining and Assessing Performance Management Schemes in Three Northern European Health Systems

  Performance management has become a ubiquitous steering tool in the public sector since the 1980s. … »

• Healthcare Regulation in the European Union; A Policy-Cycle Study of Complex Decision Making and Implementation

  Karsten Vrangbæk in collaboration with Professor Dorte Martinsen, University of Copenhagen and Hans … »

• Coordination agreements, financial incentives and local responses in the governance of Danish and Norwegian health and care services

  All health care systems are struggling with issues of coordination and integration of services. In … »

• Cost effectiveness analysis of Stem Cell therapy in IschEmic Non-treatable Cardiac disease – (SCIENCE)

  Ischemic heart disease (IHD) caused by coronary artery disease is the most common cause of death … »

• DISCHARGE: Cost effectiveness of using Coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) as diagnostic test for Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)

  Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the main cause of death in high-income countries. The World Health … »

• Documentation of effects of contracting out within the public sector

  Karsten Vrangbæk in collaboration with Ole Helby Petersen, Roskilde University (project leader) and … »

• Privatizing the health care sector

  Nordic health systems remain mostly public in terms of financing and delivery of hospital service. … »

• Globalizing Firms and Workers' Health: A Study Using Danish Matched Worker-Firm Data

  Does globalization affects health? And if so, what are the effects? We will answer these questions … »

• Health provider networks, quality and costs

  We provide a modeling framework to think about selective contracting in the health care sector. … »

• How population health improvements influence macroeconomic development

  Casper Worm Hansen engage in research on health economics from different angles … »

• The Birth Order Relationship Revisited: Child Health and Education

  The purpose of our project is to assess whether birth order effects are already present at birth and … »