Mission Statement

Health economics is a subject that applies economic theory, models and empirical techniques to the analysis of decision-making by individuals, health care providers and governments with respect to health and health care.

The aim of the new Department of Health Economics (DHE) is to support efficiency and equity concerning health and health care and create relevant interdisciplinary collaborations within the Medical University of Vienna and with other Austrian and international research and decisions making institutions by: 

• Promoting the understanding and use of health economics in research and decision making nationally and internationally
• Developing relevant undergraduate, graduate and professional education and training programmes in Austria
• Fostering research capacity development through the supervision of master and doctorate students in health economics
• Excelling in collaborative applied and methodological research programmes both nationally and internationally
• Acting as a point of call for health care professionals for expert advice

Major research areas include the synthesis of evidence on and appraisal of the socioeconomic burden of diseases, the costs, benefits and cost-effectiveness of preventative, diagnostic and treatment interventions both alongside clinical studies and using modelling techniques. Further research interests cover the evaluation of health services and health systems.

NEWS & EVENTS

»  28. Nov-01 Dec 2018: Prof. Dr. Judit Simon participates at the 11th European Public Health (EPH) Conference in Ljubljana. She presents the PECUNIA project as panelist in the pre-conference "Building Public Mental Health across the life course" and discussing "future needs for mental health research at the EU level" on the 28 November.

 » 22-24 October 2018: The DHE Short Course "Evidence-based healthcare evaluation" is taking place. For more information and registration: DHE Short Courses.

31st ECNP Congress Applied ad Translational Neuroscience in Barcelona, Spain. She presents "Better prediction of outcomes in depression - what kind of societal impact can we expect?" as part of the symposium on the 7 October at the ECNP conference in Barcelona.

»  06-09 October 2018: Prof. Dr. Judit Simon participates at the 31st ECNP Congress Applied ad Translational Neuroscience in Barcelona, Spain. She presents "Better prediction of outcomes in depression - what kind of societal impact can we expect?" as part of the symposium on the 7 October at the ECNP conference in Barcelona.

 » 02-04 October 2018: Nataša Perić is participating at the European Health Forum Gastein conference in Bad Hofgastein supported by the Young Forum Gastein scholarship. She will present "Headline Indicators for Monitoring the Performance of Health Systems" (poster)» 02-04 October 2018: Claudia Fischer is selected to participate at the first EHFG 2018 Hackathon at the European Health Forum Gastein conference in Bad Hofgastein.

» 24 September 2018: The DHE is pleased to announce that it has been awarded an EU grant for a project named LIVE concerning palliative and end-of-life care.

» 5 September 2018: Our next PriMHE (Programme in the Methods of Health Economics) lecture will take place at 12 pm at the Center for Public Health with Niek Klazinga, Professor of Social Medicine at the Amsterdam University Medical Centre who has been combining that role with coordinating the work on Health Care Quality and Outcomes at the OECD. He presently holds visiting professorship positions at the Economic Faculty of Corvinus University, Budapest and the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. The talk will be on "Value driven health care delivery: measurement and implementation challenges in OECD countries." 

» 4 September 2018: Prof. Dr. Judit Simon presents "Financial challenges in health care - the way forward from a health economic viewpoint" at the Wiener Spitalsärztekongress 2018.

» 01-04 September 2018: Noemi Kiss presents "Assessing country variability in hospital length of stay and analyzing variability in nutrition-related modifying factors based on 10 years of Nutrition Day" at the  40th ESPEN Congress on Clinical Nutrition & Metabolism.