The group was lots of fun, the quality of papers and discussions keeps increasing and we have academics from all over joining. My wish is to have more Croatians (possibly doctoral students and ECRs) involved. So, if you know someone, spread the word! Stay tuned for the next edition!

🎓 Earlier this week, I was in Split for the 3rd edition of the Croatian Health Economics Workshop. The initiative started in 2023 when Prof. Ana Bobinac, Lana Kovacevic, and myself co-founded CHEA, aiming to develop an academic community in Croatia around the economics of health(care).

Do we spend more on hospital care in the north of England because of higher needs or higher availability? In our new paper, we took a look.... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 New paper alert 📣 Very happy to see this piece of work with The University of Manchester colleagues Joe Dodd, @lukemunford.bsky.social and @mattxsutton.bsky.social out in Labour Economics. Full paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @arc-gm.bsky.social @hope-uom.bsky.social

Very pleased for the insightful seminar by @lukemunford.bsky.social at SUPSI today. Luke presented ongoing work in mental health and productivity in England, joint with @domignon.bsky.social S. Khavandi C. Bambra and @mattxsutton.bsky.social. @manchester.ac.uk @productivity.bsky.social

Congratulations to Eliana Chavarria Pino and Yuqi Zhang who graduated yesterday with their doctorates - an outstanding achievement! It was lovely to see you in your gowns 🎉🥂

The editorial boards of seven leading health econ journals are taking a stand today against political influence and ideological attacks on peer review and academia. No matter what you study we want to see your scholarship and will NEVER collaborate with suppression. Please repost.

New in PharmacoEconomics - self-declaration misses 1 in 6 of unpaid carers compared to time diaries & may underestimate mental health impacts. Method matters when identifying informal carers! Authored by: Sean Urwin, Charles Smith & @mattxsutton.bsky.social 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our report on the UK labour market for health economists is now out hesg.org.uk/download/emp...

Any human mood can be described accurately by a Mark Rothko painting.

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Tourists canceling trips to the US.

🥳🍾Congratulations to Eli Chavarria Pino who passed her viva today with minor corrections!!🎉🙌 Eli's thesis was titled: "Evaluating the effect of public health spending in low-income settings." She was supervised by: Laura Anselmi and @mattxsutton.bsky.social and funded by @nwssdtp.bsky.social

New paper: "Drivers of primary care appointment volumes before and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study" by PhD student T Zhao, supervised by Rachel Meacock and @mattxsutton.bsky.social Read it here 👇 bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

New paper in @socscimed with @HOPE_UoM colleagues Using interactions of area dose and individual exposure to estimate effects of population health interventions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper in @socscimed with @HOPE_UoM colleagues Using interactions of area dose and individual exposure to estimate effects of population health interventions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Here’s the chart that really nudged me to write this. The headcount of GP partners aged under 40 has fallen by 53% since 2015. Overall partner headcount down from 68% ➡️ 48% in same time. Current policy = ‘let it wither on the vine’. I’m not sure that’s right…..

It was 50 years ago that this groundbreaking paper by Hal Luft was published in REStat. www.jstor.org/stable/1937862

Hello World! The Editorial Board of Health Economics is pleased to announce that we are now live on the happier, friendlier, and all-together Blue-er place. Please follow us (and repost) for updates on articles and journal issues as they come out.

One striking thing about NHS Continuing Healthcare (which is only subject to a needs test, and not a financial means test) is the variation across areas -- despite a national framework. In Q1 2024/25, 9% of applicants in Herefordshire and Worcestershire were found eligible. In Dorset, it was 34%.

Are any health economists on here going to the HESG conference in Bristol? Can't find the HESG organisation on here

VACANCY: Research Fellow in Health Economics with @hope-uom.bsky.social at University of Manchester www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

New publication from Shaolin Wang, Shing Lau, @mattxsutton.bsky.social, Michael Anderson, Laura Anselmi & colleagues. Exploring inequalities in the prevalence of 205 conditions by the setting of recording in England. Read it here 👇 bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

VACANCY: Research Fellow in Health Economics with @hope-uom.bsky.social at University of Manchester www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

opportunity costs associated with NICE recommendations. Defo the most important h economics paper you will read today, maybe this week, maybe the year so far This is where the primary care budget gets spent A www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Over lifetime, each additional year of union membership reduces the odds of mortality by 1.5%. Effects primarily occur between ages of 41 and 67. Nice work @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🎉Congratulations to Yao Wei for passing his viva!🎉 His PhD is on “Impact of Greater Manchester Devolution on Population Health” with proud supervisors: @mattxsutton.bsky.social, Laura Anselmi & @lukemunford.bsky.social, funded by @arc-gm.bsky.social Thanks to Nigel Rice & Sean Urwin for examining.

You are only a "verified Economist" if you wrote "this is the first paper to study this topic" in every paper that you have authored.

Telegraph, Oct 2022: NHS needs to be replaced with an insurance-based system. Dec 2024: those nasty health insurers.

Are you a health economist working in the UK? Please complete our survey for HESG on your experiences of being a health economist Link in the email from HESG mailing list #healtheconomics

📢CALL FOR PAPERS: 14th Australasian Workshop on #Econometrics & #HealthEconomics 📅16-18 July 2025 📍KL, Malaysia @monashuniversity.bsky.social 📜≤14 papers will be accepted 👶Doctoral students/ECRs strongly encouraged to apply ✉️Submit by 20 Jan 2025: tinyurl.com/2ms8bu4n

Follow @hope-uom.bsky.social, our new research group account

Having experienced the challenge of finding the UK health / NHS policy community here on Bluesky, I've created a starter pack so you can easily follow some key voices right away. Please comment with suggested additions as more people join. go.bsky.app/NEVJUbU

Interested in a theoretical model to understand Harm Reduction Policies? Check out this NBER wp (with @johncawley.bsky.social). As a special bonus in the revised version: a dual-self model of rational addiction with temptation costs www.nber.org/papers/w30926

New paper out 🔊🔊 Looking at the interrelationship between mental and physical health across age-gender groups with Sam Hugh-Jones, @mattxsutton.bsky.social and Luke Munford read it here ▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

📣Submissions are open for 13th Workshop on Economics of Risky Behavior Location: Opatija (HR) Dates: 4-5 July 2024 Submission Deadline: 3 March 2024 Keynote Speaker: Giovanni Mastrobuoni Organizers: @erdaltekin.bsky.social (AU), A. Bobinac, I. Francetic, L. Kovacevic, hosted by U. of Rijeka & CHEA

The Health Economics Feed seems to be working. There just is not much activity (yet!). What you can do: 1) Subscribe: bsky.app/profile/did:... 2) Mention 'health economics' or '#healthecon' in a post if you want it to show up in the feed. 3) Share the feed with all your health econ colleagues.