Agata Łaszewska BSc, MPH, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Phone: +43 1 40160 - 34844
E-Mail: agata.laszewska@muv.ac.at
Location: Kinderspitalgasse 15, 1st floor, room 137
Agata joined the Department of Health Economics in July 2014 after completing her bachelor and master degree in Public Health with a specialization in Economics and Management in Healthcare System at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow in 2013. Her master thesis concerned measuring the quality of long-term care. Prior to joining the Department, she boosted her international experience during an Erasmus exchange program in Maastricht, deepened her knowledge on international healthcare systems and developed passion for an academic work.
She obtained a doctoral degree at the Medical University of Vienna in the field of Public Health/Health Economics. In her doctoral thesis she explored cost and quality of life impacts of mental disorders in Austria with an aim to provide supporting information for future resource allocation decisions and evaluation of mental health services. Her current research interest lies in mental health economics and outcome assessment in economic evaluations and health services research as well as multidisciplinary research.
Publications
2021
- Simon J, Helter T, White R, van der Boor C, Laszewska A. Impacts of the Covid-19 lockdown and relevant vulnerabilities on capability well-being, mental health and social support: An Austrian survey study. BMC Public Health. 2021 Feb 8;21:314. DOI:
10.1186/s12889-021-10351-5 - Nagel A, Łaszewska A, Haidinger G, Simon J. The first 8 weeks of the Austrian SARS-CoV-2 epidemic. Wiener Klin Wochenschr. 2021 Feb 1. DOI: 10.1007/s00508-020-01804-9
- Simon J, Mayer S, Laszewska A, Yeeles K, Burns T, Gray A. Cost and quality-of-life impacts of community treatment orders (CTOs) for patients with psychosis: Economic evaluation of the OCTET trial. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2021 Jan;56(1):85-95. DOI: 10.1007/s00127-020-01919-4
2020
- Prajapati N, Łaszewska A, Franco D, Ericson R, Leroy S, Lindert J, Reid J, Middleton J. What are the COVID-19 Lockdown-induced illnesses and why should European public health systems be investigating their epidemiology, treatment, and prevention? Report to ASPHER COVID-19 Task Group. 2020 Dec
- Simon J, Helter T, White R, van der Boor C, Laszewska A. Capability impacts of the Covid-19 lockdown in association with mental wellbeing, social connections and vulnerabilities. MedRxiv. 2020. DOI: 10.1101/2020.11.14.20231142
- Simon J, Mayer S, Laszewska A, Yeeles K, Burns T, Gray A. Cost and quality-of-life impacts of community treatment orders (CTOs) for patients with psychosis: Economic evaluation of the OCTET trial. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2020 Jul 27. DOI: 10.1007/s00127-020-01919-4
- Łaszewska A, Wancata J, Jahn R, Simon J. The excess economic burden of mental disorders: findings from a cross-sectional prevalence survey in Austria. Eur J Health Econ. 2020 May 26;21: 1075–1089. DOI: 10.1007/s10198-020-01200-0
- Helter TM, Coast J, Łaszewska A, Stamm T, Simon J. Capability instruments in economic evaluations of health-related interventions: a comparative review of the literature. Qual Life Res, 2020;29(6):1433–1464. DOI:10.1007/s11136-019-02393-5
2019
- Łaszewska A, Schwab M, Leutner E, Oberrauter, M, Spiel, G, Simon, J (2019): Measuring broader wellbeing in mental health services: validity of the German language OxCAP-MH capability instrument. Quality of Life Research: 28(8):2311-2323, DOI:10.1007/s11136-019-02187-9
- Simon, J, Łaszewska, A, Oberrauter, M, Schwab, M, Mayer, S, Churchman, D, Spiel, G (2019): Is the Oxcap-Mh Capability Measure a Feasible and Psychometrically Valid Tool for the Routine Evaluation of Mental Health Services? Value in Health, Vol 22, p 690, DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2019.09.1528
2018
- Simon J, Łaszewska A, Leutner A, Spiel G, Churchman D,Mayer S. (2018) Cultural and linguistic transferability of the multi-dimensional OxCAP-MH capability instrument for outcome measurement in mental health: the German language version. BMC Psychiatry, 18:173
- Wienand D, Park A-La, Wippel C, Laszewska A, Stelzer IV, Mayer S, Goodwin G, McDaid D, Simon J (2019): The Excess Costs and Resource Use of Physical Comorbidities in Patients with Mental Health Disorders: A Systematic Review. The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 22 (Suppl 1), p 36.
- Łaszewska A, Österle A, Wancata J, Simon J (2018). Prevalence of mental diseases in Austria: systematic review of the published evidence. Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift, 130(3-4): 141-150. DOI: 10.1007/s00508-018-1316-1
2017
- Simon J, Łaszewska A, Leutner E, Churchman D, Mayer S (2017): Inter-country Transferability of the OxCAP-MH Well-being Questionnaire. Journal Ment Health Policy Econ 2017; 20(Suppl. 1): S31
- Mayer S, Kiss N, Łaszewska A, Simon J(2017): Costing evidence for health care decision-making in Austria: A systematic review. PLOS ONE, 12(8): e0183116. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183116.
- Mayer S, Paulus A, Łaszewska A, Simon J, Drost R, Ruwaard D, Evers S. (2017): Health-related resource-use measurement items for intersectoral costs and benefits (ICBs) in the education and criminal justice sector: systematic review of instruments. PharmacoEconomics, 35(9), 895-908. DOI: 10.1007/s40273-017-0522-4.
2016
- Mayer S,Kiss N, Łaszewska A, Simon J. Health Economic Costing Methods and Reporting in Austria. Value in Health, Volume 19, Issue 7, November 2016, Page A363
2015
- Simon J, Kiss N, Łaszewska A, Mayer S (2015) Public health aspects of migrant health: a review of the evidence on health status for labour migrants in the European Region. WHO Health Evidence Network Synthesis Report 43. ISBN 978 92 890 5109 5
- Simon J, Gray A, Mayer S, Łaszewska A, Rugkåsa J, Yeeles K, Burns T (2015): Cost-effectiveness of Community Treatment Orders (CTOs): Economic Evaluation of the OCTET Study. Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 18 (S1): S36.
