»4 Nov 2021, 7. Interprofessioneller Fachtag Palliative Care; Haus der Ingenieure, Eschenbachgasse
Claudia Fischer presents at the 7. Interprofessioneller Fachtag Palliative Care in Vienna on the 5 Nov 2021.
»4 Nov 2021, Next PriMHE (Programme in the Methods of Health Economics) lecture: 09 November 2021, 12:00-13:00, virtual
"Estimating the monetary value of informal care provided to people living with dementia using a discrete-choice experiment" - Speaker: Dr Lidia Engel, Deakin Health Economics, Institute for Health Transformation (Melbourne/Australia)
For more information please click here:
»13 Oct 2021, Rutgers Psychiatry Grand Round (USA) with Prof Simon on 14th October 2021; virtual
Prof Simon presents the PECUNIA project (Health Care Economics - "Harmonising Methods for Assessing the Costs and Outcomes of Mental Health Services across Sectors and Countries in Europe") as part of the Rutgers Psychiatry Grand Rounds in the USA on the 14th Oct 2021, 15.00-16.45 (CET).
You can join the meeting and find more information here.
»1 Oct 2021, 17th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care – “Exploring new dimensions”; virtual (6-8 Oct 2021)
Members of the DHE team present at the 17th EAPC World Congress.
The poster titled "Methodological aspects of economic evaluations conducted in the palliative and end-of-life-care settings: a systematic review" will be presented by Claudia Fischer.
Judit Simon is also co-author of the poster titled " iLIVE project volunteer study: delivery of a novel training programme for volunteer coordinators, to underpin development and implementation of hospital palliative care volunteer service".
»17 Sep 2021, Sechste ATHEA Konferenz - Covid-19 and Beyond; Vienna (23-24 September 2021)
Members of the DHE team present at the 6th ATHEA conference. Link to the presentations.
»13 Sep 2021, Prof Simon was invited to a panel talk to present the PECUNIA project results.
EUPHA_ECO webinar, virtual (22 September 2021, 14:00-15:30)
Prof Simon will be presenting the PECUNIA project results at the upcoming EUPHA_ECO (Public Health Economic Section) webinar on 22 September 2021, 14:00-15:30 (CET). Link to the registration.
»9 Sep 2021, Next PriMHE (Programme in the Methods of Health Economics) lecture: 09 November 2021, 12:00-13:00, virtual
"Estimating the monetary value of informal care provided to people living with dementia using a discrete-choice experiment" - Speaker: Dr Lidia Engel, Deakin Health Economics, Institute for Health Transformation (Melbourne/Australia)
For more information please click here: PriMHE 2021_11_09_Leaflet
»6 Sep 2021, Vaccinating Children and Young People: What are the issues?
ASPHER (The Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region) statement is now online.
Sesa G, McCallum A, Martin-Moreno JM, Naboulet J-P, Green M, Davidovitch N, Simon J, Czabanowska K, Middleton J: Vaccinating Children and Young People: What are the issues? ASPHER statement. 2021 Sep 6.
»18 Aug 2021, DHE Jobs: Doctoral Researcher in Health Economics
The DHE is wishing to appoint a doctoral researcher in health economics to contribute to to relevant ongoing projects of the DHE (e.g. FWF-project „Measuring outcomes of palliative care using patient reported outcomes (PROMs)”).
For more information please visit: DHE Jobs
and the website of the Doctoral Programme Public Health UN790 Public Health
»28 June 2021, iHEA - 14th World Congress on Health Economics, virtual (12-15 July 2021)
Members of the DHE team moderate, chair and present at iHEA 2021.
iHEA World Congress on Health Economics
Judit Simon: Specific Populations Poster Session (moderator)
Judit Simon: Reference Unit Cost Development in Six Countries for Multi-National, Multi-Sectoral Economic Evaluations: Experiences from the PECUNIA Project. (session chair)
Susanne Mayer: Harmonized calculation and cross-country comparison of reference unit costs of health and social care services based on the PECUNIA service costing tools. (oral presentation)
Claudia Fischer: The self-reported PECUNIA resource use measurement instrument module for the health and social care sectors: item development and questionnaire structure. (oral presentation)
Michael Berger: Devil in the details: How urgency and costs influence the effects of cost-sharing on healthcare service consumption patterns. (poster presentation)
Michael Berger: Regional medical practice variation in high-cost healthcare services: Evidence from diagnostic imaging in Austria (poster presentation)
»8 Jun 2021, Prof Simon is giving an invited talk at the Value of Treatment (VOT) 2 Synthesis Meeting, 8th June 2021, 16:15 CET, virtual
Prof Simon is giving an invited talk "Comments: towards an overarching perspective on the care pathway analysis and health economics study for mental disorders" at the Value of Treatment 2 Synthesis Meeting, on the 8th June 2021, at 16:15 CET.
Experts participating in the Value of Treatment (VOT) for brain disorders research will present a synthesis of the results so far and examine the most critical issues in brain diseases in Europe from different perspectives including policymakers, innovators, academia and industry, medical professionals and patient organisations.
Link to the event.
»25 May 2021, Corvinus University, Hungary awards honorary professorship to Judit Simon
Prof Simon has been awarded the title of Honorary University Professor by the Senate of Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary for her ongoing collaborative work at the Department of Health Economics, Institute of Economics and Public Policy. https://www.uni-corvinus.hu/hir/tudositas-a-szenatus-majusi-ulesrol/
»10 May 2021, PECUNIA Final Workshop, virtual, 2nd June 2021 - registration open!
"Assessing the costs and outcomes of healthcare for economic evaluations in Europe"
As the PECUNIA project reaches its end, a one-day Virtual Final Workshop titled "Assessing the costs and outcomes of healthcare for economic evaluations in Europe" is organized on June 2, 2021 to present the key findings and results of the project.
Participation in this virtual event is free of charge, but registration is mandatory.
Find more information on registration and workshop programme here.
»4 May 2021, The DHE Short Course is taking place 20-22 October 2021 (online)
Evidence-based healthcare evaluation - Introduction to evidence synthesis and health economics
For more information please visit the course website:
» 26 April 2021, “The Future of Mental Health” (29th April 2021) - Online-Symposium, Uni Wien
Prof. Simon presented "Developments in outcome measurement for mental health services: the story of a fruitful collaboration in Austria"
The symposium "The Future of Mental Health" on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Univ.-Doz. Dr. Georg Spiel was organized by pro mente and took place online on the 29th April 2021.
»25 March 2021, Assessing the costs and outcomes of healthcare - EU Research Spring 2021
The new issue of EU RESEARCH features some results from the 2020 PECUNIA EU project on assessing the costs and outcomes of healthcare.
»24 March 2021, "Psyche im Corona-Stress" - an interview with Prof Simon, 2021/1 WIEN WISSEN
Prof Simon's interview "Psyche im Corona-Stress" about the study results on the impact of COVID19 on mental health and well-being in Austria was published in WIEN WISSEN 1/2021.
»17 March 2021, Agata Laszewska presented the PECUNIA work on the development of supra-national value sets for the EQ-5D at the Maastricht ISPOR Student Chapter meeting on March 18 2021.
»11 March 2021, Round Table "ZUKUNFT EUROPA- GESUNDHEIT und INNOVATIVE IDEEN" (10th March 2021) - Bundeskanzleramt, Wien
Mag.a Karoline Edtstadler (Bundesministerin für EU und Verfassung) invited Prof. Simon as an expert for Health Economics.
Prof. Simon participated the round table "ZUKUNFT EUROPA- GESUNDHEIT und INNOVATIVE IDEEN" on the 10th March 2021 as an expert for Health Economics.
»9 March 2021, „Joint Academy Day ÖAW-RSC" (18th March 2021) - webinar
Prof. Simon is a speaker on the subject Healthy Societies - 19.00-20:30
You are welcome to join the "Joint Academy Day" organized by the ÖAW together with the Canadian Academy of Sciences. The event takes place online as a webinar on the 18th March 2021.
Prof. Simon is a speaker in Panel 6: Healthy Societies - from 7 p.m.
You can find more information about the program and the Panel-Links here.
»11 February 2021, Prof. Simon was featured in the PECUNIA project #WomenInScience Twitter campaign on 11 Feb. 2021
https://twitter.com/Pecunia_EU
»27 January 2021, Prof. Simon was guest in Ars Boni 111: Effects of COVID 19 on mental health (live podcast)
Prof Simon has been talking to Prof Forgo from the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law, University of Vienna in his podcast series ‘Corona and Law’ about the impact of COVID 19 on mental health and related ongoing research at the DHE in addition to the health economic aspects of decision making during the COVID 19 pandemic.
To watch the podcast go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o2n2HdtXm0
»13 January 2021, Prof Simon was invited to join the International Editorial Board of BJPsychOpen
Prof. Dr. Judit Simon has accepted the invitation to join the BJPsych Open International Editorial Board with handling editor's responsibilities. “Prof. Simon’s breadth of experience, research and publications with international collaborations addressing mental health economics, public health, psychiatric clinical trials, and health services/systems research will bring significant strength to BJPsych Open.” (Kenneth R. Kaufman, Editor-in-Chief, BJPsych Open)BJPsych Open is a high-quality, online-only open access journal for the publication of all methodologically sound research in psychiatry and disciplines related to mental health.
»4 January 2021, Agata Łaszewska co-authored a new ASPHER report on Lockdown-induced illnesses
In order to curb the spread of the pandemic, many governments introduced country-level lockdowns involving a range of social restrictions designed to limit physical-social interactions and mobility. However, these measures have also resulted in extensive unintended adverse health effects on populations worldwide.
This ASPHER Report ‘What are the COVID-19 10 Lockdown-induced illnesses and why should European public health systems be investigating their epidemiology, treatment, and prevention?’ aims to explore the anticipated long-term impacts of pandemic-induced lockdowns across Europe on different aspects of health that have been less commonly studied and explored.
»9 December 2020, The slides for the PriMHE Event (26 January 2021) are now available for download
Prof Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford) presented: "Innovative methods of evidence synthesis: a primer on network meta-analysis."
»18 November 2020, November edition of ASPHER Newsletter features COVID-19 report in Austia by Professor Simon
The November edition of the ASPHER (the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region) Newsletter features a COVID-19 country report from Austria written by Professor Simon.
Link: https://www.aspher.org/download/527/aspher-newsletter-november-2020.pdf
»12 November 2020, Working paper on the impact of Covid-19 on mental health and wellbeing in Austria - a summary of study results, is now available
Working paper presenting a snapshot of the results of the study “Auswirkungen von COVID-19 auf die psychische Gesundheit und das Wohlbefinden in Österreich" has been prepared by the DHE team and can be viewed here.
Description of the study in German and English.
»9 November 2020, ISPOR Europe 2020 (16-19 November 2020), virtual conference
The DHE team is presenting the PECUNIA Project
ISPOR Europe 2020
Harmonized Methods for Estimating Pan- and Supra-National Utility Value Sets: The PECUNIA Project (Judit Simon; organized session)
Identification of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Used for Generic Quality-of-Life/Wellbeing Assessment in Multi-Person, Multi-Sectoral and Multi-National Economic Evaluations: The PECUNIA Project (Agata Łaszewska; poster presentation)
Harmonized Unit Costs for Health and Social Care Services Based on the PECUNIA Tools: The Example of Austria (Susanne Mayer; poster presentation)
»30 October 2020, Case study of developing a linguistically and culturally valid Hungarian version of the OxCAP-MH well-being questionnairee presented
The poster entitled “Internal and external aspects of freedom in the application of the capability approach – the case study of developing a linguistically and culturally valid Hungarian version of the OxCAP-MH well-being questionnaire” has been electronically presented as part of the annual meeting of the Hungarian Health Economics Association on 27 October 2020.
Co-authors:
Timea Mariann Helter1, Ildiko Kovacs2, Andor Kanka2, Orsolya Varga3, Janos Kalman2, Judit Simon1,4
1Department of Health Economics, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Kinderspitalgasse 15, Vienna, A-1090
2 Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Kálvária Ave 57, Szeged, Hungary, H-6725
3 Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Public Health, University of Debrecen, 26 Kassai Street, Debrecen, Hungary
4 Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
»12 October 2020, Differing calculation methods hinder cost comparisons between public health care sys
Medical University of Vienna press release about DHE findings
»29 September 2020, Lehrveranstaltungen und Prüfungen im Rahmen der COVID-19 Maßnahmen
Durchführungsbestimmungen, Sicherheits- und Hygienebestimmungen,
Studienjahr 2020/2021
Im folgenden Mitteilungsblatt finden Sie die Durchführungs-, Sicherheits- und Hygienebestimmungen bezüglich Lehrveranstaltungen und Prüfungen im Rahmen der COVID-19 Maßnahmen im Studienjahr 2020/21
Mitteilungsblatt der Medizinischen Universität Wien
26. Stück, Nr. 32
»25 September 2020, Infosession for UN790 Doctoral Programme Public Health
Monday, 5 October 2020, 12:00-13:00
Webex Meeting
Event number: 121 836 8886
Event password: phd-publichealth
Login event address for attendees:
Registration is not required.
Doctoral Program Public Health
»23 September 2020, 16th World Congress on Public Health 2020 (12-16. October 2020)
Poster presentations of the DHE team
16th World Congress on Public Health 2020
Nataša Perić: Is the EU ready for a generic set of indicators for health system performance? A qualitative study
Judit Simon: (Pharmaco)economic evaluations for mental health related services: the PECUNIA project
»24 August 2020, Austrian recommendations on physical activity (Österreichische Bewegungsempfehlungen) updated
Susanne Mayer was part of the national expert group contributing to the updated Austrian recommendations on physical activity.
Austrian recommendations on physical activity (Österreichische Bewegungsempfehlungen) updated
Susanne Mayer was part of the national expert group updating the Austrian recommendations on physical activity, specifically contributing to the chapter on societal consequences of physical inactivity. The document can be downloaded from the website of Fonds Gesundes Österreich.
»29 May 2020, New crowd-sourcing initiative "Reden Sie mit!" (Ludwig Bolztman Gesellschaft LBG)
Prof Judit Simon is part of the Expert Advisory Group and Dr Agata Laszewska will participate in the co-creation workshop as part of LBI initiative "mental health and work".
The goal of this great initiative is to identify subject areas for which new research in the area of mental health is urgently needed by engaging general public, experts and practitioners in the discussion.
The focus is on the mental health in connection with education and learning, work and social isolation during the Corona crisis.
For more information please visit the initiative's website:
»27 May 2020, Umfrage: Auswirkungen von COVID-19 auf die psychische Gesundheit und das Wohlbefinden in Österreich
Die Abteilung für Gesundheitsökonomie, Zentrum für Public Health, Medizinische Universität Wien hat eine Online-Umfrage erstellt. Ziel dieser Studie ist, die langfristigen Auswirkungen des COVID-19-Ausbruchs auf die psychische Gesundheit und das Wohlbefinden der Menschen in Österreich zu untersuchen.
Sie können teilnehmen, wenn Sie mindestens 18 Jahre alt sind, gute Deutschkenntnisse haben und wenn Sie während der Ausgangbeschränkungen zwischen Mitte März und Mitte April 2020 Ihren Hauptwohnsitz in Österreich hatten.
Die Teilnahme an dieser Befragung erfolgt freiwillig und anonym. Das Ausfüllen des Fragebogens dauert ca. 40 Minuten, aber der Fragebogen kann jederzeit unterbrochen und später fortgesetzt werden. Alle Daten werden gemäß der EU-Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DSGVO) behandelt. Die Studie wurde von der Ethikkommission der Medizinischen Universität Wien genehmigt (EK Nr: 1529/2020).
Für weitere Information, bitte wenden Sie sich an unsere Homepage: https://healtheconomics.meduniwien.ac.at/en/wissenschaft-forschung/projekte/auswirkungen-von-covid-19-auf-die-psychische-gesundheit-und-das-wohlbefinden-in-oesterreich-eine-explorative-studie/
»20 May 2020, The DHE presents at the Online-Spring Conference of the Austrian Society of Public Health (ÖGPH)
Agata Łaszewska presented "Auswirkungen psychischer Erkrankungen auf dem Ressourcenverbrauch im Gesundheitsbereich und Produktivitätsverlusten" during the first spring conference (Frühjahrstagung) of the Austrian Society for Public Health as one of the finalists of the early career public health researchers competition.
Nicole Grössmann presented "Publicly accessible evidence of health related quality of life benefits associated with cancer drugs approved by the European Medicines Agency between 2009 and 2015".
ÖGPH Online-Spring Conference Programme
»1 April 2020, DHE office hours during SARS CoV-2 restrictions
Due to the current CoV-2 restrictions the offices of the Department of Health Economics remain closed for personal appointments.
You can reach us as usual via e-mail or phone:
+43 (0) 1 40160 - 32842
»1 April 2020, SARS CoV-2 Information of the Medical University of Vienna
For updates please visit the news section of the university's website:
https://www.meduniwien.ac.at/web/ueber-uns/news/
»14 Febr 2020, 21. Jahrestagung EbM-Netzwerk 2020
Useful patient-related research,13 -15 February 2020, Basel
Nicole Grössman is presenting: “Published evidence of health-related quality of life benefits associated with cancer drugs approved by the European Medicines Agency between 2009 and 2015”
»28 January 2020, Presentations of DHE members at the 5th ATHEA Conference
Nataša Perić is presenting “Cost-effectiveness of the PreDicT test-results and lessons learned from a European multinational depression trial".
Susanne Mayer is presenting "Development of the PECUNIA unit cost calculation templates for harmonized cross-country and cross-sector valuation of services".
Timea Helter is presenting "Developing a linguistically and culturally valid Hungarian version of the OxCAP-MH questionnaire".
Agata Laszewska is presenting “Identification of cross-country differences in health state valuations to identify criteria guiding future development of supra-national value sets for EQ-5D – the PECUNIA project”.
»9 January 2020, "Methodological challenges in (pharmaco)economic evaluations“
Die Teilnahme an unseren Fortbildungsveranstaltungen von Univ.Prof. Judit Simon, Abteilung für Gesundheitsökonomie gehört zu den Dienstpflichten jeder Ärztin / jedes Arztes an der Univ. Klinik für Klinische Pharmakologie. Speziell für die in Ausbildung stehenden Kolleginnen und Kollegen ist die Teilnahme verpflichtend.
Wir bitten alle Arbeitsgruppenleiter, den Kollegen die Teilnahme an der Fortbildung zu ermöglichen.
Interessierte sind auch herzlich willkommen!
»8 January 2020, Meeting of the UK Health Economics Study Group in Newcastle
Timea Helter has attended the Winter 2020 meeting of the UK Health Economics Study Group in Newcastle, supported by a scholarship from the organisers. Her paper entitled "Empirical comparison of capability instruments in mental health research: OxCAP-MH vs. ICECAP-A in schizophrenic patients with depression" was discussed by David Mott from the Office of Health Economics on 8th January.
»19 November 2020, "Empirical comparison of capability instruments in mental health research: OxCAP-MH vs. ICECAP-A in schizophrenic patients with depression"
6th-8th January 2020
Timea Helter will present her paper entitled "Empirical comparison of capability instruments in mental health research: OxCAP-MH vs. ICECAP-A in schizophrenic patients with depression" at the next meeting of the Health Economists’ Study Group, hosted by Newcastle University from 6th-8th January 2020. The paper aims to comprehensively compare the properties of the OxCAP-MH and ICECAP-A instruments in schizophrenic patients with depression.
»21 November 2019,15:00 – 16:00
PriMHE Herausforderungen bei der Entwicklung eines Lebensverlaufsansatzes zur Bewertung des Wohlbefindens für den Einsatz in
Professor Joanna Coast
Joanna Coast ist Professorin in "Economics of Health & Care" an der Universität von Bristol. Joana qualifizierte sich mit einem BA (Econ) (Hons) in Wirtschaft 1988 and einem MSc in Gesundheitsökonomie (1990), beide von der Universität von York, und einen PhD in Allgemeinmedizin von der University of Bristol (2000). Jo's Forschungsinteresse liegt in der Theorie der wirtschaftlichen Bewertung. In der Entwicklung von Fähigkeitsmaßstäben für die Verwendung bei der wirtschaftlichen Bewertung, Prioritätensetzung, Pflege am Lebensende und Wirtschaftlichkeit der Antibiotikaresistenz.
Venue: Medical University of Vienna,
Center for Public Health
Kinderspitalgasse 15
1090 Vienna, Austria (Please use the entrance Zimmermanngasse)
Bianca von Bienenfeld Room (SE3), 2nd floor
»18-19 November 2019, EU-project PReDicT das letzte "All Investigators Meeting" des EU-Projekts PReDicT in Paris, an dem Judit Simon und Nataša Perić teilnahmen.
»5. November 2019, ISPOR EUROPE CONFERENCE in Kopenhagen, Präsentation des Forschungsplakats, Research Poster Session 4; 15:45 – 19:00
Nataša Perić presentiert zwei Posters aus folgenden Kollaborationen:
» 4. - 7. November 2019, iLIVE Project meeting - 6. International Collaborative Symposium Week
Dr. Claudia Fischer nahm am iLIVE project meeting in Bergen - Norway teil. Dieses findet im Rahmen der 6. International Collaborative Symposium Week des International Collaborative for Best Care for the Dying Person statt.
Anmeldungen für den iLIVE project Newsletter.
»23-25 October 2019, 9th International Seminar of the PRC, Invited talk of Claudia Fischer at the 9th International Seminar of PRC in Krems an der Donau, Austria 23-25 October 2019. Title of her presentation was "The assessment of quality of palliative care in Austria".
» 25.September 2019, Judit Simon Gastvortrag an der Alpen-Adria-University in Klagenfurt "Improving health economic methods for the evaluation of mental health interventions and services"