Associate Professor Bruce Hollingsworth

Profile:

Dr Bruce Hollingsworth is recipient of a Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) Public Health Fellowship. His previous appointment was at the University of Newcastle, UK. He has a PhD (Newcastle, UK), MSc Health Economics (York, UK), and BA (Hons) Economics.

Research and international collaborative publications are principally in the area of efficiency measurement with respect to the production of health and health care, social determinants of health, and the translation of research into practice. Among current grants, he is Chief Investigator on a $1.8 million NHMRC Programme Grant on chronic disease prevention, Chief Investigator on a $660,000 NHMRC grant on the costs and benefits of complimentary and alternative medicine, Chief Investigator A on two ARC Discovery Grants, for $176,500 to look at health production, and for $230,000 to look at the economics of obesity, as well as Associate Investigator A on a $3.5 million NHMRC Health Services Research Programme Grant focusing on modelling health care systems.  He is also Chief Investigator on a $97,000 DHS grant to establish an evaluation framework to assess health promotion.

This is alongside other research interests, administrative responsibilities, and teaching commitments, including ECC2700, the undergraduate course in Health Economics at Monash, which Bruce co-ordinates and teaches. Bruce supervises PhD, Masters and Honours students.

He also runs the official International Health Economics Association (iHEA) e-mail discussion list, is on the iHEA International Scientific Committee, is an active member of health economics organisations worldwide, an invited speaker at many international conferences, is a referee for over 30 international journals, and has over 100 publications.

Research Book:

Hollingsworth, B. and Peacock, S. Efficiency Measurement in Health and Heath Care. UK: Routledge, 2008 (ISBN 9780415271370).

A Selection of Recent Journal Articles:

Hollingsworth, B. The measurement of efficiency and productivity of health care delivery.  Health Economics; in press. 

Spinks, J. and Hollingsworth, B. Cross country comparisons of technical efficiency of health production: a demonstration of pitfalls.  Applied Economics; in press. 

Hollingsworth, B. and Richardson, J. A conceptual model of the economic impact of international movements in the health labour force. Applied Economics Letters; in press.

Hollingsworth, B., Harris, A., Mortimer, D. The cost-effectiveness of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).  Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics; 2007: 24(12): 571–577.

Busija, L., Hollingsworth B., Buchbinder, R., Osborne, R.  Role of age, sex and obesity in the higher prevalence of arthritis among lower socioeconomic groups: A population-based survey.  Arthritis Care and Research; 2007: 57(4): 553-561.

Hollingsworth, B. and Street, A.  The market for efficiency analysis of health care organisations. Health Economics; 2006: 15(10): 1055-1059. 

Hollingsworth, B., Harris, A. Economic Evaluation of prenatal population screening for Fragile X Syndrome. Community Genetics; 2005: 8(2) 68-72. .

Hollingsworth, B.   Non Parametric Efficiency Measurement.  Economic Journal; 2004: 114 307-311. 

Hollingsworth, B. and Wildman, J.  What population factors influence the decision to donate blood? Transfusion Medicine; 2004: 14 9-12. 

Hollingsworth, B. and Smith, P.  The use of ratios in data envelopment analysis.  Applied Economics Letters; 2003: 10(11) 733-735. 

Hollingsworth, B. and Parkin, D.  Efficiency and Productivity Change in the English National Health Service: Can Data Envelopment Analysis provide a robust and useful measure? Journal of Health Services Research and Policy; 2003: 8 230-236. 

Hollingsworth, B., Harris, A.  The economic consequences of introducing Deep Brain Stimulation for the treatment of advanced Parkinson’s disease in Australia. Australasian Journal of Ageing; 2003: 22(3) 127-130. 

Hollingsworth, B. Non-parametric and parametric applications measuring efficiency in health care.  Health Care Management Science; 2003: 6(4) 203-218.                                 .

A Selection of Recent Working Papers:

Harris, M., Hollingsworth, B., Inder, B., Maitra, P. Re-examining the relationship between income and child health. Research Paper, Centre for Health Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University (ISBN forthcoming), 2008, forthcoming.

Hauck, K. and Hollingsworth, B.   Do obese patients stay longer in hospital? Estimating the health care costs of obesity. Research Paper No. 28, Centre for Health Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University (ISBN 1 921187 27 1), 2008, forthcoming.

Greene, W., Harris, M., Hollingsworth, B., Maitra, P.  A bivariate latent class correlated generalised ordered probit model with an application to modelling obesity levels. Department of Economics, Stern School of Business, New York University, Working Paper No. 08-18, 2008.

Hollingsworth, B. and Hauck, K.  Translational research in the area of inequalities in health related to obesity in Australia.  Research Paper No.11, Centre for Health Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University (ISBN 1 921187 10 7), 2005. 

Hollingsworth, B., Shah, C., Long, M., Richardson, J. Economic modelling of international movements in the health labour force.  Working Paper No. 152, Centre for Health Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University (ISBN 1 876662 73 5), 2005.

Spinks, J. and Hollingsworth, B . Health production and the socioeconomic determinants of health in OECD countries: the use of efficiency models.  Working Paper No. 151, Centre for Health Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University (ISBN 1 876662 72 7), 2005.

A Selection of Recent Conference Presentations:

Greene, W., Harris, M., Hollingsworth, B., Maitra, P.  Modelling obesity levels using a  bivariate latent class correlated generalised ordered probit model.  ESRC Econometric Study Group Conference, Bristol, July 2008.

Au, N., Hauck, K., Hollingsworth, B.  Is there a correlation between smoking and obesity? Population Health Congress, Brisbane, July 2008.

Hollingsworth, B. Current practice in efficiency measurement in health care.  7^th European Conference on Health Economics, Rome, July 2008. 

Hauck, K., Hollingsworth, B. Modelling the impact of obesity on hospital costs. 7^th European Conference on Health Economics, Rome, July 2008. 

Hauck, K., Hollingsworth, B., Tsuchiya A. Resource allocation, health mobility and adaptation to illness.  7^th European Conference on Health Economics, Rome, July 2008.

Morgan, L., Hauck, K., Hollingsworth, B. The determinants of obesity: an application with respect to country of birth.  7^th European Conference on Health Economics, Rome, July 2008. 

Asmild, M., Hollingsworth, B. Birch, S. The productive efficiency of Canadian hospitals: Is scale or capacity the problem. North American Productivity Workshop, New York University, New York, June 2008.

Greene, W., Harris, M., Hollingsworth, B., Maitra, P.  Modelling obesity levels using a  bivariate latent class correlated generalised ordered probit model.  Netherlands Econometric Society Group Conference, Tilberg, June 2008.

Hauck, K., Hollingsworth, B. Modelling the impact of obesity on hospital costs.  2nd Biennial Conference of the American Society of Health Economists, Durham, North Carolina, June 2008. 

Hollingsworth, B. The measurement of efficiency and productivity of health care delivery.  2nd Biennial Conference of the American Society of Health Economists, Durham, North Carolina, June 2008. 

Hauck, K., Hollingsworth, B.  Obesity and the intensity of hospital resource use.  Fifth Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Auckland, December 2007. 

Greene, W., Harris, M., Hollingsworth, B., Maitra, P.  Modelling obesity levels using a  bivariate latent class correlated generalised ordered probit model.  Australian Health Economics Society Conference, Brisbane, September 2007. 

Hauck, K., Hollingsworth, B.  Modelling the impact of being obese on hospital costs.  Australian Health Economics Society Conference, Brisbane, September 2007.

Birch, S., Tomblin-Murphy, G., O’Brien-Pallas, L., Lethbridge, L., Rodriguez, E., Hollingsworth, B., Asmild, M.  Health human resource planning in a health care production context.  Health Economists’ Study Group Conference, Brunel, UK, September, 2007. 

Greene, W., Harris, M., Hollingsworth, B., Maitra, P.  A bivariate latent class correlated generalised ordered probit model with an application to modelling obesity levels.  Econometric Society European Meeting, Budapest, August 2007. 

Hollingsworth, B.  The state of the art.  Sixth International Health Economics Association (iHEA) World Congress, Copenhagen, July 2007.  Published Abstract(in conference materials).

Hauck, K., Hollingsworth, B.  Estimating hospital resource utilization for illnesses caused and aggravated by obesity.  Sixth International Health Economics Association (iHEA) World Congress, Copenhagen, July 2007.

Zhang, X., Hollingsworth, B., Zhao, X.  How dietary habits impact on self reported health.  Australian Health Economics Society Conference, Perth, September 2006.

Hollingsworth, B. and Hauck, K.  The effective translation of health economics research into policy and practice.  Sixth European Conference on Health Economics, Budapest, July 2006.  Abstract published: European Journal of Health Economics; 2006: 7 (S1) S118. 

Hollingsworth, B. and Spinks J.  Technical efficiency of health production and the socioeconomic determinants of health in OECD countries.  Sixth European Conference on Health Economics, Budapest, July 2006.  Abstract published: European Journal of Health Economics; 2006: 7 (S1) S44. 

Wildman, J. and Hollingsworth, B.  Blood donation and charity.  Sixth European Conference on Health Economics, Budapest, July 2006.  Abstract published: European Journal of Health Economics; 2006: 7 (S1) S118. 

Asmild, M., Hollingsworth, B. The Productive Efficiency of labour and capital: a trade off analysis. North American Productivity Workshop, New York University, New York, June 2006.

Busija L, Hollingsworth B, Buchbinder R, Osborne RH. Demographic, socioeconomic, and lifestyle factors in arthritis in Australia: Results from the Victorian Population Health Survey. Australia Rheumatology Association Annual Scientific Meeting, May 2006, Perth.

Hollingsworth, B. and Hauck, K.  Research in the area of inequalities in health with regard to obesity: have health economists anything useful to say to policy makers? Australian Health Economics Society Conference, Auckland, September 2005.

Busija L., Hollingsworth, B., Osborne R. The burden due to arthritis across socioeconomic strata. Eleventh Annual National Health Outcomes Conference: Making a difference. Canberra, August 2005.

Parkin, D. and Hollingsworth, B. Non parametric approaches to measuring diversification.  Fifth International Health Economics Association (iHEA) World Congress, Barcelona, July 2005. 

Wildman, J. and Hollingsworth, B.  What impacts on the time between blood donations? Fifth International Health Economics Association (iHEA) World Congress, Barcelona, July 2005.

Spinks J. and Hollingsworth, B. A health warning about health production and modelling the socioeconomic determinants of health across countries.  Fifth International Health Economics Association (iHEA) World Congress, Barcelona, July 2005. 

Parkin, D. and Hollingsworth, B. Diversification and specialisation measurement.  Health Economists’ Study Group Conference, University of Newcastle, June 2005.

Busija, L., Hollingsworth, B., Osborne R.The burden due to arthritis across socioeconomic strata: results from the Victorian Population Health Survey.  Australian Rheumatology Association Conference, Melbourne, May 2005.