CHE Seminar Series: A New Method to Explore Socioeconomic Inequality Impact of Attributes in Discrete Choice Experiments
A common application of discrete choice experiments (DCEs) in healthcare is to improve service uptake. However, it may also be important predict the impact of attribute changes on socioeconomic inequalities in uptake, particularly where interventions may be better taken up by less disadvantaged individuals.
While the concentration index (CI) is commonly used to analyse inequalities in healthcare, the study to be discussed makes a novel application of the CI to a DCE. This allows us to predict the impact of changes in attributes on both uptake and socioeconomic inequalities in uptake.
The context is routine general practice visits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Forgone care, in which people went without needed healthcare, was an adverse impact of the pandemic which is unequally distributed across socioeconomic status. This approach allows us to incorporate what is known of the social distribution of attributes and could extend the scope of inequality analysis beyond usual DCE practice to provide valuable information on the implications of service changes. It could also inform distributional cost effectiveness analysis.
Speaker Profile
Dr Jemimah Ride is a health economist with a background as a medical doctor and in health policy. She completed her PhD in health economics at CHE Monash in 2018 and has since worked at the University of York, University of Melbourne, and now back at Monash in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Her research focuses on mental health and preferences for healthcare and other goods or services that affect health. As of 2024 she will be commencing work on an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) to investigate employer incentives to create mentally healthy workplaces with a particular focus on healthcare workers.
Weekly seminar series
For further information on our seminar series, please contact shannon.stanwell@monash.edu
Event Details
- Date:
- 27 March 2024 at 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
- Venue:
- Caulfield campus, Building H, Level 9, Room H9.14
- Categories:
- CHE Seminar; Health Economics
Description
A common application of discrete choice experiments (DCEs) in healthcare is to improve service uptake. However, it may also be important predict the impact of attribute changes on socioeconomic inequalities in uptake, particularly where interventions may be better taken up by less disadvantaged individuals.
While the concentration index (CI) is commonly used to analyse inequalities in healthcare, the study to be discussed makes a novel application of the CI to a DCE. This allows us to predict the impact of changes in attributes on both uptake and socioeconomic inequalities in uptake.
The context is routine general practice visits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Forgone care, in which people went without needed healthcare, was an adverse impact of the pandemic which is unequally distributed across socioeconomic status. This approach allows us to incorporate what is known of the social distribution of attributes and could extend the scope of inequality analysis beyond usual DCE practice to provide valuable information on the implications of service changes. It could also inform distributional cost effectiveness analysis.
Speaker Profile
Dr Jemimah Ride is a health economist with a background as a medical doctor and in health policy. She completed her PhD in health economics at CHE Monash in 2018 and has since worked at the University of York, University of Melbourne, and now back at Monash in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Her research focuses on mental health and preferences for healthcare and other goods or services that affect health. As of 2024 she will be commencing work on an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) to investigate employer incentives to create mentally healthy workplaces with a particular focus on healthcare workers.
Weekly seminar series
For further information on our seminar series, please contact shannon.stanwell@monash.edu