Current research projects
Prioritization, incentives and resource use for sustainable dentistry (PRUDENT).
This research programme is financed by the EU Commission Horizon Europe.
Can we improve efficiency of oral health care. And can we ensure that care is delivered equitably to those in highest need?
This large scale project looks at patient preferences and dentists allocation decisions across several countries in Europe. We are designing citizen surveys to elicit preferences for dental care services, as well as barriers that hinder access to these services. We also exploring dentists' motivations and preferences. We link survey data to register data to observe how citizens preferences and dentists motivations are associated with actual delivery of oral health care services.
For more information see:https://www.prudentproject.eu/
This research programme is financed by
SDU-OUH Flagship Fund
STEMBRACE: patients, the public and practitioners
How can we delivery regenerative effectively and cost-effectively?
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Regenerative medicine embraces a paradigm shift in medicine by rebuilding the damaged organ either by the stem cells engrafted or by reaching multiple endogenous molecular and cellular entities. .
STEMBRACE seeks to - through an interdisciplinary approach - embrace all aspects of stem cell-based therapy of certain patient groups. The project involves assessing the cost implications of regenerative medicine, including micro-costing, modelling and value of information analysis.
This research programme is financed by
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The Norwegian Research Council (Helsevel)
Tracing causes of inequalities in health and well-being: Analysis of rich longitudinal data (TRACE)
Patient pathways
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resilience
How patients experience their health, and how they partake in the production of own health is of central importance to health care planners worldwide.
Based on panel data that include a broad range of diagnostic information together with quantitative measures of patient reported health related quality of life (HRQoL) and subjective well-being (SWB) expressed along internationally validated instruments, the Tromsø Study and the European SHARE survey offer a unique source for research. Objective and subjective measures of health including descriptions of sudden health events allow us to study how health shocks impact on patient experienced health, and health related behaviours. By linking data on health and well-being with information on early life events, health related behaviour, and the social environment, we will explore how individuals' early life circumstances and life course impact on their ability to cope with sudden adverse health events. We also explore health state dependency and decipher whether heath shocks increase or decrease the utility of consumption/income.
This research programme is financed by
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The Novo Nordisk Foundation:
Regulating and nudging for improved societal impact of research based knowledge in health care (PINCH) NNF18OC0033978
Læge Sofus Carl Emil Friis og Hustru Olga Doris Friis' Fund: The hidden cost of resource constraints in primary care.
Resource constraints
& behaviour
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Health professionals generally face resource constraints, and must allocate scarce ressources. Yet their allocations decisions and equity preferences have received little attention to date.
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In a range of projects we seek to disclose how ressource constraints affect the allocation of ressources across patients who are in low and high need of health care. We apply laboratory experiments for this purpose.
Further, on a stated preference experiment we elicit physicians' (general practitioners') preferences for equitable distributions of health care ressources across hypothetical patients groups with different initial health status and different capacity to benefit.
Finally, we explore (through survey and register data) how changes in perceived (and objective) ressource constraints impact on referral and prescription behaviour. We also plan to look at how ressource constraints impact on physicians' creativity.
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