News Archive

»31 Aug 2022, Prof Simon holds an invited talk at the lecture series "Cheese&Crackers" with the title "Introduction to the value assessment of new health technologies"

Thursday, 22th September 2022, 15:00, hybrid event in NucMed library 3L (Medical University Vienna) and online (Webex)

With the lecture series "Cheese&Crackers", the Department of Nuclear Medicine of the Medical University of Vienna promotes scientific discussion, collaboration and interaction with internal and external partners through regular scientific lectures by eminent researchers from Austria and abroad.

Prof Simon holds an invited talk on health economics at the next seminar.

Click here for more information and the seminar programme.

 You can find the Webex link here.

»9 Aug 2022, Economics of Palliative & End-of-Life Care SIG, July Update

Claudia Fischer's presentation at the EuHEA conference in Oslo; 2022 Jul 5-8

Dr. Claudia Fischer presented first results of the EU-funded project iLIVE – a systematic review on methodological aspects regarding conducting economic evaluations in the palliative and end-of-life-care settings.

“Our findings indicate that there are still multiple methodological challenges to tackle to ensure valid cost-effectiveness analyses in the palliative and end-of-life settings”, said the first author of the paper, Dr. Claudia Fischer.

Link to the July Update of Economics of Palliative & End-of-Life Care SIG

»27 Jun 2022, ASPHER statement is out.

How are inequalities in health from Long COVID being exacerbated and what are the strategic implications for more equitable support for those with enduring clinical sequelae of infection?

Beccia F, Davidovitch N, McCallum A, Simon J, Reid J. How are inequalities in health from Long COVID being exacerbated and what are the strategic implications for more equitable support for those with enduring clinical sequelae of infection? ASPHER Statement. 2022 Jun.

»20 Jun 2022, Dennis Wienand has received a prize for the best presentation at the ASPHER Young Researcher’s Forum in Bled (Slovenia)

The DHE is pleased to share that Dennis Wienand’s presentation entitled "Estimating the public health impact of excess physical comorbidities associated with mental health disorders in Europe: structured review, meta-analysis and population-level extrapolation of existing epidemiological evidence" has been selected as best presentation delivered at the ASPHER Young Researcher’s Forum 2022 in Bled, Slovenia.

»7 Jun 2022, DHE team members gave oral presentations at EUHEA Conference.

Oslo; 2022 Jul 5-8

Berger M. "Devil in the details: The influence of urgency and price on the effects of cost-sharing on healthcare service consumption patterns."

Berger M. "Exploring regional variations in hospital admission rates for depressive episodes in Austria."

Fischer C. "Methodological aspects of economic evaluations conducted in the palliative and end-of-life-care settings: a systematic review."

Simon J. " How far is it feasible to harmonize costing methods for economic evaluations in Europe? Lessons learned from the PECUNIA project."

Simon J. "The excess resource use and costs of physical comorbidities in patients with mental health disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis."

Link to the presentation abstracts.

»7 Jun 2022, Judit Simon presents relevant lessons learned from the H2020 PECUNIA project at "HTA in Austria Update Symposium und Generalversammlung"

Monday, 20th June 2022, 10:00-12:00, virtual

Prof Simon: “How far is it feasible to harmonize costing methods for economic evaluations in Europe? Lessons learned from the H2020 PECUNIA project”

»20 May 2022, Economic perspective and recommendations regarding the value of treatment for mental health disorders

Judit Simon presents “VOT: economic perspective and recommendations” at the 30th European Congress of Psychiatry (EPA 2022) as part of the EBC VoT symposium "Early detection and continuity of care, a joint value of treatment study on anorexia nervosa, autism and depression in Europe".

For more information click here.

»19 May 2022, Dennis Wienand presents at the ASPHER Young Researchers’ Forum in Bled (SLO), 9 Jun 2022

Dennis Wienand will give an oral presentation entitled "Estimating the public health impact of excess physical comorbidities associated with mental health disorders in Europe: structured review, meta-analysis and population-level extrapolation of existing epidemiological evidence".

»28 Apr 2022, Interdisciplinary research project jointly led by scientists of UniWien and the DHE/MU

For further information, see https://postcovidcare.univie.ac.at/

»25 Apr 2022, DHE team members guest-editing Special Issue on “Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Healthcare: Methodological Advances and Practical Applications from a Societal Perspective” (JERPH)

Special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Special issue information: Rising healthcare costs go hand in hand with an increasing need for economic evaluations—for instance, cost-effectiveness analyses in the field of public health. However, adopting a broad societal perspective to cover all relevant costs from multiple sectors affected by the spillover effects of healthcare interventions remains a methodological and practical challenge to this day despite its growing popularity and application. This Special Issue calls for studies advancing the methodological foundation of economic evaluations conducted from a societal viewpoint. This includes theoretical contributions as well as applied examples of rigorously conducted cost-effectiveness analyses covering consequences beyond costs in the health and social care sectors. For this Special Issue, papers including systematic literature reviews addressing these topics are invited, especially those combining novel methods contributing to capturing the consequences of healthcare interventions in a wide variety of sectors. This collection of articles will contribute to the health economic literature by broadening the evidence base from economic evaluations to make optimal societal decisions and by providing insights into the practical aspects of conducting economic evaluations from a societal perspective.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023.

Dr. Susanne Mayer

Dr. Michael Berger

Dr. Ghislaine Van Mastrigt

Guest Editors

Further information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/costeffectiveness_healthcare

»11 Apr 2022, Next PriMHE (Programme in the Methods of Health Economics) lecture: 17 May 2022, 12:00-13:00, virtual

Understanding the effects of payment for performance on health systems in low-and-middle income countries - a reflection on empirical findings and research methods
Speaker: Dr Josephine Borghi (Professor in Health Economics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)

PriMHE leaflet & invitation 17 05 2022

»11 Apr 2022, Prof Simon held an invited talk at the ASMM 2022

Austrian Swiss Metabolic Meeting. „New technologies, new treatments, new challenges." 7-8 Apr 2022

»1 Apr 2022, The iHEA webinar on the European PECUNIA project is now available online

Prof Simon presented the PECUNIA Project at the iHEA Webinar organized by Mental Health Economics SIG. Watch here.

»1 Apr 2022, The DHE team presented at the Fifthteenth Workshop of Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry - "Mental Health Services, Economics, Policy Research" in Venice

25-27 Mar 2022, See more information here.

»28 Mar 2022, TODAY -29.03.2022, 16:30-20:00

ÖAW+CSR-Circle Worskshop über nachhaltige Entwicklungsziele: Judit Simon, als Expertin, diskutiert SGD 3 Gesundheit und Wohlergehen

»28 Mar 2022, The DHE team present at the EUHEA conference in Oslo, 5-8 July 2022

Michael Berger, Claudia Fischer and Judit Simon will give oral presentations at the EUHEA conference in Oslo in July 2022.

»15 Mar 2022, #Together4MentalHealth - Brain Awareness Week 2022

Today, the Value of Treatment project on mental disorders releases summaries of case study results and call to action on the occasion of Brain Awareness Week 2022 - Thematic: #Together4MentalHealth with a focus on youth.

Live on the website now:

https://www.braincouncil.eu/value-of-treatment-project-releases-first-results-and-calls-to-action-on-the-occasion-of-brain-awareness-week-2022/

Prof Simon has supported the project as health economics adviser.

»9 Mar 2022, PECUNIA Project iHEA Webinar (21 March 2022, 9 am ET/ 1 pm GMT/2 pm CET), Zoom

Prof Simon is presenting the PECUNIA Project at the iHEA Webinar organized by Mental Health Economics SIG.

Title: New International Framework for Assessing the Costs and Outcomes of Mental Health Related Care: The European PECUNIA Project (2018-2021)

Link to the registration. Linkt to the project.

»21 Feb 2022, 2nd ASPHER statement on COVID-19 related inequalities co-authored by Judit Simon is out.

2^nd ASPHER statement on COVID-19 related inequalities co-authored by Judit Simon is out. It focuses on the concerns about the multiple dimensions of the pandemic’s inequalities and the anticipated enduring impacts over at least the next ten years.

Link to the publication.

»21 Feb 2022, The ASPHER Newsletter January-February 2022 is out

The Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) is pleased to bring you the first newsletter of the year, which will introduce you to the ambitious ASPHER 2022 work plan, as well as exciting big developments with the launch of the WHO-ASPHER Professionalization Roadmap and ASPHER Partnership in the 2023 World Congress on Public Health.

Link to the Newsletter

»28 Jan 2022, 15th Workshop on Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry - "Mental Health Services, Economics, Policy Research"; Venice (25-27 March 2022)

Members of the DHE team (Judit Simon, Michael Berger, Timea Helter, Dennis Wienand) present at the 15th Workshop on Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry.

»15 Dec 2021,The iLIVE Project has launched a new website

Coinciding with International Volunteer Day, The "iLIVE Project - live well, die well" the international research project on best care for people with advanced and terminal illnesses has launched a new website for citizen participation on the 5th of December 2021.

new iLIVE website: https://www.iliveproject.eu/iwanttodecide

Please find more information here and in the MUV News "Internationales iLIVE-PROJEKT erforscht Palliativ-Versorgung in Europa. Neue Webseite ermuntert BürgerInnen zur direkten Beteiligung mittels Umfragen".

»15 Dec 2021, Prof Simon was interviewed by the chilean newspaper La Tercera regarding the latest COVID situation in Europe.

Her contribution was published in the article "Antivacunas: La ola de los no inmunizados pone en jaque a Europa".

»15 Nov 2021, The 11th International Seminar of the European Palliative Care Research Centre; virtual (2-3 Dec 2021)

Next generation palliative care research: Integration and implementation.

Claudia Fischer presents at "The Seminar of the European Palliative Care Research Centre" on 3rd Dec 2021.

»11 Nov 2021, Presentation of the 2021 Corvinus University Awards

Prof Simon has been awarded by the senate of Corvinus University, Budapest (Hungary) in 2021
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.

»9 Nov 2021, 14th European Public Health Conference 2021 - "Public health futures in a changing world"; virtual (10-12 Nov 2021)

Prof Simon chaired the session "Reflection on the topic" at the pre-conference 'Developments in Economic Evaluation in Healthcare' of the 14th EPH Conference on 10th Nov 2021.

»9 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:

PriMHE 2021_11_09_Leaflet

»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:

PriMHE 2021_11_09_Leaflet

»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)

Link to the presentations

»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:

DHE Short Course

» 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.

Link to the publication.

»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.

Link to the interview.

»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."

Link to PriMHE-presentations

»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 Simon^1,4

 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

(EN) Differing calculation methods hinder cost comparisons between public health care systems across the EU

(DE) Unterschiedliche Berechnungsmethoden erschweren EU-weit Kostenvergleiche in öffentlichen Gesundheitssystemen

»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

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:

https://corona.lbg.ac.at/

»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:

dhe@meduniwien.ac.at

+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.

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»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.

»19 November 2019, First HTx Expert Forum meeting

25. November 2019

PECUNIA coordinator Prof. Judit Simon is invited to the HTx Expert Forum. This advisory board brings together methodological and clinical experts from different European societies and projects in order to evaluate the outcomes of the project and to intensify the discussion on the new methods in this research field. Prof. Simon is happy to participate in the 1st HTx Expert Forum meeting on November 25, 2019, in Barcelona.

»24 October 2019, PriMHE Challenges in developing a life-course approach to assessing capability well-being for use in

21 November 2019,15:00 – 16:00

Professor Joanna Coast
Joanna Coast is Professor in the Economics of Health & Care at the University of Bristol.  Jo qualified with a BA (Econ) (Hons) in Economics in 1988 and an MSc in Health Economics in 1990, both from the University of York, and a PhD in Social Medicine from the University of Bristol in 2000.  Jo's research interests lie in the theory underlying economic evaluation, developing capability measures of outcome for use in economic evaluation, priority setting, end-of-life care and the economics of antimicrobial resistance. 
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

»23 October 2019, 9th International Seminar of the PRC

23-25 October 2019

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".

»18 October 2019 , iLIVE Project meeting - 6. International Collaborative Symposium Week

Dr. Claudia Fischer participates at the iLIVE project meeting in Bergen - Norway.  This will take place during the 6. International Collaborative Symposium Week of the International Collaborative for Best Care for the Dying Person.

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»11 October 2019, EU-project PReDicT

18-19 November 2019

Judit Simon and Nataša Perić will participate in the final All Investigators Meeting of the EU-project PReDicT in Paris, France.

»11 October 2019,  ISPOR EUROPE CONFERENCE Copenhagen 

5 November 2019 - Research Poster Session 4 – 15:45 – 19:00:

Nataša Perić presented two posters from joint collaborations on:

»20 September 2019, Judit Simon invited talk at the Alpe-Adria-University Klagenfurt

25. September 2019

Judit Simon invited talk at the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt about improving health economic methods for the evaluation of mental health interventions and services

»20 August 2019, DHE Short Course

Vienna, 16-18 October 2019

The DHE Short Course "Evidence-based healthcare evaluation: Introduction to evidence synthesis and health economics" is taking place. For more information and registration go to: DHE Short Course

»20 August 2019, Info Session N790 Doctoral Programme Public Health

2 October 2019

In order to support you with the preparations for the forthcoming academic year 2019/20, we would like to invite you to the annual info session for the

Doctoral Programme Public Health

2 October 2019, 12:00-13:00 at the Center for Public Health/Seminar room 3

(2nd floor via staircase 2, entrance Zimmermanngasse 3, 1090 Vienna)

Registration is not required

»6 August 2019, PECUNIA Satellite Workshop

17 July Basel

PECUNIA Satellite Workshop in Basel, (17 July 2019)  the 2nd milestone after 17 month - after finalising the multi-sectoral country reports an compiled sector specific master service lists in all participating countries. For more information and registration: PECUNIA Satellite Workshop the 1st satellite workshop during the iHEA Conference in Basel.

»6 August 2019, iHEA WORLD CONGRESS

13-17 July

»6 August 2019, ENMESH Conference

»6 August 2019, PECUNIA Advisory Board Meeting  in Vienna

17 May 2019

2nd Scientific Advisory Board Meeting in PECUNIA in Vienna (17 May 2019) Vienna took place for updates and to give targeted input.

»6 August 2019, ICMPE Conference

29-31 March 2019

»8 March 2019, TODAY: Judit Simon has been showcased in today´s EU H2020 programme News dedicated to inspirational women in science on International Women´s Day: https://twitter.com/EU_H2020/status/1103613824958164992

»March 2019: Timea Helter was awarded a software grant from Sawtooth Software to gain full access to their services. She is listed as one of the their grant recipients under: https://www.sawtoothsoftware.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2074

»1 March 2019: 4th ATHEA-conference in Vienna