Health Financing and Market Organisation
Overview
Decisions about financing, payment, organisation, and regulation affects the behaviour and welfare of all participants, and the performance of the health care system as a whole.
The Health Financing and Market Organisation theme conducts research that uncovers how changes to funding models and the organisation of markets can improve wellbeing, efficiency and equity of health and care systems. This includes understanding the impact of funding and organisation on the decisions and interactions of patients, doctors, and other participants (e.g., hospitals, private insurers, governments) in the health care system.
Our researchers have conducted studies across a variety of areas, including health care financing, provider payment models, health workforce, public-private mix, quality, productivity, competition, regulation, technology, and digital markets.
Our research draws on a variety of fields within economics – labour, industrial organisation, public, behavioural – as well as disciplines within and beyond the social sciences, including health policy and governance. We employ a wide array of datasets (surveys, administrative, linked datasets) and methodological approaches including causal inference methods, discrete choice experiments, and structural modelling.
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Prominent projects
Private hospitals and affiliation with chains are increasing. What does this mean for patients?
How does increasing consolidation of hospitals into hospital chains, coupled with for-profit ownership changes, affect the quality of healthcare?
How psychologists responded to better access
Medicare expansions aim to improve access by reducing costs for patients. But affordability only translates into access if the workforce expands to meet higher demand.
Does free healthcare improve health and is it worth the cost?
Investigating whether free access to healthcare would prevent healthcare delays or cost more than it is worth.