Past Projects

Social Objectives | Improving and Informing Decision Marking | Health Systems | Population Health

Social Objectives and Utility Measurement

1. AQoL – Assessment of Quality of Life
2. Adapting the Assessment of Quality of Life Instrument for health promotion
3. Calibration of the AQoL Instrument and the DALY using post-deliberation utilities
4. Economic commentary on Returns on investment in public health: and epidemiological and economic analysis
5. Predicting individual expenditures with DCG software
6. The price of health: GP and Specialist Fee Setting in the Aust. Health Care System
7. Theoretical development of “cost value analysis” & “empirical ethics”

Improving and Informing Decision Making

1. Application of priority setting to osteoarthritis – involves cost utility analysis of prevention strategies, pharmacotherapies, surgery
2. Applications of priority setting and resource allocation tools to public health program planning at national levels
3. Priority setting models: Development of a health sector wide disease model. Review of various models
4. Program Budgeting & Marginal Analysis: National Cancer Control Strategy
5. Program Budgeting and Marginal Analysis: Victorian QUIT Program
6. Application of PBMA to mental health and cardiovascular disease (ACE Mental Health (Dept Health Aging); ACE: Heart Disease (DHS, Vic))
7. Hospital costing – DRG level analysis of economies of scale
8. Measuring the productive efficiency of hospitals
9. Outpatient or Non-Admitted Hospital Services
10. Payment Policy for Medical Services
11. Cost/Consequence Study of Cancer Care With or Without Positron Emission Tomography (PET Scanning)
12. Cost-effective care for appendicitis
13. Economic analysis of new medical technologies submitted to the Medical Service Advisory Committee
14. Independent evaluations of submissions to the PBAC
15. Costing Methodology
16. Methodological and empirical issues in the measurement of productive efficiency in the hospital sector

Health Systems

1. Analysis of the Southern Healthcare Network Co-ordinated Care Trial – Client Expenditure diaries – estimation of out-of-pocket costs and models, description performance of unpaid carer support by disease
2. Capitation models and single fund holding
3. Analysis of private health insurance
4. Equity, population funding and weighted capitation
5. Issues in access to sub acute care – the nature of the market for sub acute care
6. Patient empowerment in the context of the current health system reform debate

Population Health

1. Population Health Economics Advisor – Population Health Division, Department of Health and Aged Care
2. VicHealth Tobacco Control Centre

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