Quantitative evaluation of health policy
Australia has to improve health system performance if it is to meet the growing demands on health services. Financing the health system and the incentives generated for how health services are used is a key concern. The evidence base for future health system reform builds on the experience gained analysis and evaluation of recent health policy initiatives. This research focuses on the use of econometric methods to evaluate policy and thus to encourage more efficiency, better safety, higher quality and better results for consumers.
Current projects:
Achievements in and barriers to health reform
Adolescents and young adults with a life threatening illness: Preferences for support services
Choice experiments for complex choices: the case of contraceptives
Cystic fibrosis: A new framework for cost-of-illness studies
Estimating utility of health: Some methodological issues
General Practitioners knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding cervical cancer screening in Australia
The training and job decisions of nurses: An integrated approach using panel surveys and dynamic discrete choice experiments
