tag:www.hche.uni-hamburg.de,2005:/en/aktuellesNews2024-03-26T12:55:39ZNAGR-fakws-23479766-production2024-03-25T23:00:00ZAndré Hajek world's leading expert on "loneliness"<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/23478970/hajek-andre-733x414-0b0d97a1bac40ce19a522effca8802378c0a7401.jpg" /><p>Professor André Hajek from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf leads the global ranking of experts on "loneliness" on the web portal expertscape. The Hamburg-based scientist has been researching the topic of "loneliness" for several years and is in first place in the international ranking of the US web portal thanks to a large number of high-ranking specialist publications.</p>
<p>Prof. Dr. phil. André Hajek is Professor of Interdisciplinary Health Care Epidemiology at the Institute for Health Economics and Health Care Research at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. He has been a member of the Hamburg Center for Health Economics since 2014. One focus of his research work is on successful and healthy ageing. Hajek has published around 130 articles on loneliness in the recent years, examining topics such as coronavirus, social media, migration, pets, obesity and climate anxiety in connection with loneliness and social isolation. In 2023, together with Prof. Dr. Steffi G. Riedel-Heller and Prof. Dr. Hans-Helmut König, he published "Loneliness and Social Isolation in Old Age", a comprehensive edited work released by the renowned Routledge publishing house, which provides a comprehensive overview of the most important correlates of loneliness and isolation. The publication can be read online.</p>
<p>The US web portal expertscape regularly compiles rankings that list the world's leading experts in specific medical fields. They are determined on the basis of qualitative and quantitative scientific publications. To the expertscape ranking</p><p>Photo: HCHE</p>NAGR-fakws-23471218-production2024-03-12T23:00:00ZCall for Papers for 9th BEH Workshop<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/23470977/beh-workshop-2024-733x414-f20b351999d4bb3e72aff505c475c888f3384718.jpg" /><p>The HCHE invites to the 9th Workshop in Behavioral and Experimental Health Economics on October 7th to 8th, 2024 in Hamburg. The event is being hosted by the Behavioural Experiments in Health Network. The workshop brings together economists and behavioral scientists who apply behavioral-economics insights and experimental methods to study health-related decision making. </p>
<p>Starting now, papers can be submitted on various health economics topics using experimental methods, regardless of whether they are conducted in the lab or in the field. If you are interested in presenting a paper, please submit either the full paper, or an extended abstract of up to 500 words that addresses each of the following: objectives, methods, results, and conclusions. Preference will be given to full-paper submissions, particularly for long talks. Deadline for submissions is May 15, 2024. </p>
<p>Further information and the possibility to submit can be found here.</p><p>Photo: Mediaserver Hamburg/Martin Elsen</p>NAGR-fakws-23436316-production2024-03-05T23:00:00ZMalte Griebenow receives dggö science prize<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/23458175/griebenow-preis-dggoe-2024-3-733x414-b72ac9e108017abf5689b6a32e39991384eac569.jpg" /><p>At the dggö 2024 annual meeting, HCHE member Dr. Malte Griebenow was awarded the dggö Science Prize. He received the award for his paper “Should physicians team up to treat chronic diseases?” (published in the Journal of Health Economics), in which he found that treating chronically ill patients in medical teams is superior to individual practice when the expected treatment costs for the primary doctor are higher. Otherwise, individual practice is preferable to team care. Griebenow has already been awarded the Young Researcher Award from the Hamburg Center for Health Economics in 2023 for his work.</p>
<p>Read the full Paper „Should physicians team up to treat chronic diseases?“</p><p>Photo: dggö, Markus Scholz</p>NAGR-fakws-23409910-production2024-02-29T23:00:00ZHCHE Summer School 2024<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/23409630/220926-hche-szenenshooting-069-733x414-087e100d0f9354cb3f3dd0c1db43605f02bc0f10.jpg" /><p>From July 15 to 27, 2024, the HCHE is once again offering its Summer School in Health Economics. In two intensive course weeks, M.Sc. students, PhD students and practitioners with a university degree in economics will learn about various areas of health economics and get insights into current research. The program is divided into five course blocks offered by professors and members of the HCHE, including topics such as Health Economic Evaluation and Modelling, Health Econometrics / Machine Learning or Behavioral Economics for Health. The complete program, further information and the possibility to apply can be found here.</p><p>Photo: HCHE</p>NAGR-fakws-23401576-production2024-02-26T23:00:00ZLecture program for summer semester 2024 published<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/23401465/research-seminar-sose2024-733x414-cb646912c2d49ff2a692f159b5dae22b682654bc.jpg" /><p>The HCHE research seminar starts for the summer semester in mid-April. Seven lectures will be offered by national and international scientists. Prof. Thomas Siedler from the University of Potsdam will kick off on 15.04.2024, speaking about air pollution and its effects on health outcomes in Germany. Other topics range from child benefit and access to and consumption of legal and illegal substances to the drug quality in Burkina Faso. The series of lectures takes place every two weeks on Mondays at 4:30 pm. Guests are very welcome.</p>
<p>To the lecture program</p><p>Photo: HCHE</p>NAGR-fakws-23382209-production2024-02-04T23:00:00Z"A so-called transformation fund could only serve as a transition"<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/23381892/jonas-schreyoegg-733x414-ae46e23c61cbcf22133c683ba7669745da62947f.jpg" /><p>HCHE member and Scientific Director Prof. Dr. Jonas Schreyögg talks with the Deutsches Ärzteblatt about the planned hospital reform and explains why short-term financial aid is not sustainable in the current structural crisis. A transformation fund, or more precisely: a "hospital structure fund", could help. </p>
<p>Read the full interview with Jonas Schreyögg on aerzteblatt.de</p><p>Photo: HCHE/Gregor Schläger</p>NAGR-fakws-23245310-production2024-01-30T23:00:00ZThe European COvid Survey (ECOS): Technical Report<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/23245177/research-paper-ecos-733x414-49a987e321ef517ab88b1eae1819ffd85402c624.jpg" /><p>With the European COvid Survey (ECOS), the HCHE and researchers from three other European universities examined the acceptance of protective measures and precautionary behavior (such as willingness to vaccinate) during the corona pandemic from April 2020 to December 2022 as part of a cross-national longitudinal study. More than 7,000 people in eight European countries were surveyed every two months. The study is representative and provided politically relevant insights (e.g. about the current mood towards containment measures, vaccinations or types of vaccines). In addition, the ECOS data helps to answer health economics research questions that are aimed at an academic audience using advanced analytical methods. ECOS data-based research offers an empirical foundation for capturing longitudinal phenomena and relationships, leading to a deeper understanding of socioeconomic processes and behaviors.</p>
<p>HCHE Research Paper The European COvid Survey (ECOS): Technical Report, Sabat, I.; Neumann-Böhme, S.; Stargardt, T.; Schreyögg, J.</p>
<p>To the HCHE Research Paper</p><p>Photo: HCHE</p>NAGR-fakws-23208024-production2024-01-23T23:00:00ZCelebration for graduates and alumni<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/23207845/alumni-treffen-2024-733x414-2-42cd5b9115d21671aabf1f84187fac8663493224.jpg" /><p>For the second time since 2019, the HCHE is inviting all former doctoral students and graduates to an alumni meeting in Hamburg. The event will take place on May 3, 2024 together with the graduation ceremony of the students of the Master's program Health Economics & Health Care Management. In addition to the official program with various speeches and honors, the alumni meeting also serves as an opportunity for current and former doctoral students to exchange ideas. The exact program is in progress and will be announced soon. Interested alumni can leave their contact details here.</p><p>Photo: HCHE</p>NAGR-fakws-22892089-production2023-12-05T10:00:00ZGlobal Lessons From COVID-19<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/22891839/health-affairs-global-covid-19-lessons-733x414-0474df98ab66fd5f8233f5b3547fc3bcad3cd21f.jpg" /><p>"Health Affairs" presents an online panel discussion on "Global Lessons from COVID-19" with various studies ranging from how modeling was used to respond to the pandemic, how global and national health inequities emerged and were addressed, and how countries attempted to protect their most vulnerable residents. Among others, two contributions by HCHE members (Prof. Dr. Esra Eren Bayindir and Lasse Falk) are included: "Public Perceptions Of COVID-19 Lockdown Policies In Europe: Socioeconomic Status And Trust Were Factors" (Lasse Falk, Sebastian Neumann-Böhme, Iryna Sabat and Jonas Schreyögg: https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2023.00707) and "Socioeconomic Disparities In Mortality And Health Care Use During The COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Germany" (Esra Eren Bayindir, Robert Messerle, Tom Stargardt, and Jonas Schreyögg: https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2023.00714).</p>
<p>At the virtual panel discussion on December 4, 2023 at 1 pm, Prof. Dr. Esra Eren Bayindir will participate in Panel 3: "Identifying Disparities, Protecting Vulnerable Groups" and present her paper.</p>
<p>You can join the event on www.healthaffairs.org</p><p>Photo: Health Affairs</p>NAGR-fakws-22842929-production2023-11-22T23:00:00ZTop position in the CHE ranking<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/22842861/esplanade-aussen-733-414-35742e17fa8babd7c6dac6880de3da5906e77fd6.jpg" /><p>As part of the CHE University Ranking 2023/2024, the study conditions of Master's degree programs in economics in Germany were evaluated this year. The Master of Science "Health Economics & Health Care Management" was rated very positively: From the organization of studies to the support in organizing a study abroad or the research orientation, the Master's program received 4.5 out of 5 stars. The Master's is largely designed by the members of the Hamburg Center for Health Economics and qualifies students for health economics research and for specialist and management roles in the healthcare sector.</p>
<p>Prof. Dr. Mathias Kifmann, program director of the Master's program at the HCHE, is very pleased about this award: "The interdisciplinary Master's program offers a challenging and versatile study program. Teachers and students analyze the healthcare system from an economic and business perspective in order to make it fit for future challenges. I am particularly pleased that our research orientation and support for studying abroad are highly appreciated by students. We cooperate with leading universities in Europe in our field."</p><p>Photo: HCHE</p>NAGR-fakws-22810072-production2023-11-07T23:00:00ZWhat can help against the shortage of medicines?<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/22710386/medikamentenmangel-4f528a8c2e809d97e21fe66c72b7fe04a031d5ea.png" /><p>Increased demand, manufacturing problems or insufficient production capacities: There are several reasons for the current shortage of medicines. But how can supply bottlenecks for medicines and active ingredients be avoided? And can artificial intelligence be put to good use? Changes in the pharmaceutical market can also be caused by the timing of market access for new drugs. After analyzing data from around 500 medicines and then comparing the results with those from five other European countries, we can show whether there have been any direct effects, such as delays or a change in the order of market launch since the introduction of AMNOG in 2011.</p>
<p>We would like to present our research results to you at our next HCHE Research Results live event on November 28 at 5 p.m. at HCHE.</p>
<p>Further information you can find here.</p><p>Photo: AdobeStock</p>NAGR-fakws-22641982-production2023-10-25T22:00:00ZNew book on the subject of "Loneliness and social isolation in old age"<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/22641661/loneliness-cover-733x414-542534e3428576e95ccdfeabbfd2ee35eb8066dd.jpg" /><p>Loneliness is also referred to as "the new smoking" among experts. In the 21st century, the world's aging population is growing faster than ever before. This drives the international research agenda to help older people live longer and find the causes and cures for chronic diseases such as dementia. Loneliness and social isolation have long been among the most important determinants of an overall lower quality of life, impair mental and physical health and lead to secondary illnesses – a fact that has long been recognized in medicine. Prof. Dr. André Hajek, Prof. Dr. Hans-Helmut König and Prof. Dr. Steffi G. Riedel-Heller in their new book "Loneliness and social isolation in old age" provide a comprehensive overview of the important connections between socioeconomic, health and lifestyle factors and loneliness and social isolation in old age. It highlights the importance of looking at the factors associated with loneliness and social isolation in older adults from a broader perspective, covering a range of topics such as income poverty, physical activity, family care and frailty. The chapters are evidence-based and offer a mix of empirical studies and reviews of international research. The publication is aimed at researchers and doctoral students in the fields of mental health, social work and psychiatry as well as health professionals in the fields of gerontology and geriatrics. The book has 230 pages, is published by Routledge in London and also available in open access thanks to a grant from the Saxon university libraries.</p><p>Photo: Routledge</p>NAGR-fakws-22507840-production2023-10-03T22:00:00ZWelcome, our new Research Training Group!<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/22536614/grk2023-733x414-b465767570b83e0371624ceba39581fcd44563f0.jpg" /><p>The first ten doctoral students of our new DFG Research Training Group start at the HCHE this month. Supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG), ten doctoral students will start their dissertations in the field of “Managerial and economic dimensions of health care quality” at the Hamburg Center for Health Economics in October 2023. The young scientists research cause-effect relationships to enable quality control in healthcare. They will be supervised by a consortium of theorists and empirical and experimental researchers who work in the field of health economics and have interdisciplinary backgrounds in business administration, economics and medicine.</p>
<p>More informationen about the Research Training Group you can find here.</p><p>Photo: HCHE/Rathjen</p>NAGR-fakws-22331215-production2023-09-03T22:00:00ZProf. Iris Kesternich receives Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/22331120/kesternich-iris-esfandiari-0375-733x414-screen-5122c6992cd5955cbf99c88b733688bbb5c7dad0.jpg" /><p>What incentives beyond payment motivate people to go to work? And do they differ between men and women? Prof. Dr. Iris Kesternich, economist at the University of Hamburg and core member of the HCHE, is addressing these and other questions in a new research project. Over the next five years, she will receive a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council.</p>
<p>The labor market has changed significantly in recent years, not only as a result of the Corona pandemic, but also due to new digital technologies or the increasing shortage of skilled workers. One consequence of these changes is that employers have to create further incentives for employees in addition to salary when competing for qualified applicants. As part of her research project "Morethanmoney", Prof. Dr. Iris Kesternich therefore wants to investigate the importance of flexibility and meaningfulness of work for the labor market.</p>
<p>Click here to read the full press release.</p><p>Photo: UHH/Esfandiari</p>NAGR-fakws-22099558-production2023-07-31T22:00:00ZWhy do people go to work even when they are sick?<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/20794606/eva-newsbeitrag-87bf94f8cd7f4fa08cb038778106dc06e230931f.png" /><p>New research project on the phenomenon of "presenteeism" by HCHE junior professor Eva-Maria Wild is funded by the University of Hamburg's Ideas and Risk Fund. Wild is investigating why employees do not take sick leave but continue to go to work even though they are sick.</p>
<p>Researchers at the University of Hamburg can apply for funding from the "Ideas and Risk Fund" to prepare a major third-party funded project. Among this year's projects is a research by HCHE core member Eva-Maria Wild on "presenteeism", a phenomenon that describes workers not taking sick leave when they are not healthy. Wild suspects that this is not just an expression of the individual personalities of individuals, but that the corporate culture in companies or organizations can contribute to such behavior. With consequences: "Presenteeism can lead to burnouts, to psychological and, in the longer term, to physical illnesses," says the junior professor of healthcare management, explaining the problem. With 18,000 euros from the "Ideas and Risk Fund", she wants to develop a scale that will help her measure presenteeism culture. She will survey between 500 and 1,000 people in Germany in several rounds.</p>
<p>Further information on the project and the "Ideas and Risk Fund" of the University of Hamburg can be found here (in german).</p>
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<p></p><p>Photo: Claudia Höhne/HCHE</p>NAGR-fakws-21997838-production2023-07-06T13:00:00ZHCHE presents study on corona follow-up costs due to psychological stress in children and adolescents<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/22094805/child-g118ac0886-1280-733x414-3cef1bfadd335ed93e4f11902f148e4d5aa590a2.jpg" /><p>The psychosocial stress to which children and young people in Germany were exposed during the corona pandemic has led to emotional disorders or behavioral problems and even mental illness with long-term consequences for some of those affected. For society, this means high follow-up costs in various areas, the potential size of which is in the range of several billion euros per year, even with conservative estimates. This is the result of an expert report that the University of Ulm prepared in cooperation with the Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE) of the University of Hamburg on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Family and Youth. The paper was presented on Thursday, July 6, at a press conference with Federal Family Minister Lisa Paus (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen). "The expertise shows that every euro that we are now investing in the mental health of young people is well invested. In this way, we are helping to avoid significant follow-up costs in the future and also to relieve future generations financially," says Paus.</p>
<p>The authors of the report have calculated the consequential costs that the three symptoms of depression, anxiety disorders and eating disorders cause in children and young people: additional health costs and costs resulting from later incapacity to work and unemployment. The basis for these analyzes was formed by systematic study evaluations on psychosocial stress, endangerment of children's welfare and cost consequences in the context of the pandemic. The challenge here was that the relevant data was not yet available, or not in sufficient quantity and quality. At the same time, the scientists see an urgent need for action: "In the interests of equal intergenerational justice, long-lasting stress caused by these clinical pictures should be avoided as early as possible," says Professor Andreas Jud from the Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie/Psychotherapie Ulm. Although there are always imponderables in forecasts, one cannot wait for precise figures that will only be available in 10 or 20 years: "Then it will be too late to act."</p>
<p>Professor Eva-Maria Wild from the HCHE calculated the healthcare costs. "We made the best possible use of the available data material according to scientific standards in order to forecast estimated values for the total costs and thus to describe a development corridor," emphasizes Wild. The authors of the expertise underline the result that a significant improvement in the database is necessary in Germany - also for future challenges.</p>
<p>Please find here the press release (in german)</p><p>Photo: pixaby</p>NAGR-fakws-21989768-production2023-07-02T22:00:00ZKick off for "STATAMED": HCHE evaluates large-scale innovation fund project<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/21989573/foto-uhh-baumann-20110617-0141-733x414-0c97af0a4ffe8c6f80108eb8d1e5cf2e04646e3b.jpg" /><p>In July, the AOK launches the large-scale STATAMED project, which focuses on the interdisciplinary connection of health care in the inpatient and outpatient areas. Starting in April 2024, the pratical care will begin at six sites in the Rhineland, Hamburg and Lower Saxony. The general medical focus and scientific process support will be provided by the Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE – Institut und Poliklinik für Allgemeinmedizin). The Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE) and the Hannover Medical School (MHH – Institut für Allgemeinmedizin und Palliativmedizin) are responsible for the evaluation of the project. In addition to the AOK Rheinland/Hamburg and the AOK Niedersachsen, the project consortium includes six hospital sites, three of which are in North Rhine-Westphalia and Hamburg and three in Lower Saxony. The Associations of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in North Rhine, Lower Saxony and Hamburg are also part of the project, which is being funded by the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) with almost eleven million euros over four years.<br><br>Please find here the press release (in german)</p><p>Photo: UHH-Baumann</p>NAGR-fakws-21953182-production2023-06-25T22:00:00ZNew HCHE Research Paper: Choosing Health ("Supplemental") Insurance in Relation to Willingness to Pay and Deductibles - An Experiment.<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/21949280/rp-versicherung-65129685fbc1c911394d4471c0b016de5e1eaa02.png" /><p>What decisions do consumers make when choosing their health insurance? Who has which preferences and why? To better understand this, participants in a controlled laboratory experiment were asked to make insurance decisions one after the other, given a constant health risk. The results differ in particular in the willingness to pay to insure against diseases that occur rarely and cause high costs, and in the preference to forgo deductibles. However, when the quality of individual decisions is measured based on risk preferences, heterogeneity across participants disappears.</p>
<p>HCHE Research Paper Heterogeneity in Health Insurance Choice: An Experimental Investigation of Consumer Choice and Feature Preferences, Hermanns, B.; Kairies-Schwarz, N.; Kokot, J.; Vomhof, M.</p>
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<p></p><p>Photo: Fotolia</p>NAGR-fakws-21922803-production2023-06-15T22:00:00ZV. Ress, R. Messerle and M. Griebenow receive HCHE Young Researcher Award 2023<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/21921831/newsbeitrag-yra-2023-dca02c0efca004917f9e102835b0fe70923843a0.png" /><p>For the second time, the international scientific advisory board has presented the HCHE Young Researcher Award. The following HCHE doctoral students or post-docs have now been honored for their research in the field of ambulatory and inpatient care: Dr. Malte Griebenow for his paper "Should physicians team up to treat chronic diseases?", Vanessa Ress for her work "Examining the causal relationship between integrated care and healthcare utilization and costs in a socially deprived urban area in Germany using difference-in-difference analysis" and Robert Messerle for research on "Country-level effects of diagnosis-related groups: Evidence from Germany's comprehensive reform of hospital payments".<br>The award ceremony took place during the HCHE Center Day. The award winners will now have the opportunity to spend a research period with a member of the jury.</p>
<p>To the HCHE Young Researcher Award</p>
<p></p><p>Photo: HCHE/V. Achenbach</p>