Centre for Health Economics
and Policy (CHEP)

Current research projects

CHEP researchers are engaged in projects related to two broad research areas:

Individual behavior, socioeconomic resources and health
Regulation, prioritization and health sector performance

The following list presents examples of current research within these two themes.

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 … »
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 … »