OHE at HESG Winter 2020

Meet some of the OHE team at the Health Economists’ Study Group (HESG) Winter 2020 meeting in Newcastle, 6-8 January 2020.

Meet some of the OHE team at the Health Economists’ Study Group (HESG) Winter 2020 Meeting in Newcastle, 6-8 January 2020. The Meeting will be hosted by Newcastle University.

Apostolos Davillas, Mireia Jofre-Bonet, David Mott, Chris Sampson, Bernarda Zamora, and Kyann Zhang will be attending the conference and contributing to the programme in various capacities.

OHE work to be discussed:

A latent class approach to inequity in health using biomarker data

Tuesday, 7 January, 15:30 – 16:30, Locomotion 1

Authors: Apostolos Davillas, Vincenzo Carrieri and Andrew M. Jones

Summary: An empirical approach was developed to analyse, measure and decompose Inequality of Opportunity (IOp) in health, based on a latent class model. This aims to address the limitations that affect earlier work in this area concerning the definition of types – such as partial observability, the ad hoc selection of circumstances, the curse of dimensionality and unobserved type-specific heterogeneity – that may lead to either upwardly or downwardly biased estimates of IOp. The latent class approach was applied to quantify IOp in allostatic load, a composite measure of the biomarker data. Using data from Understanding Society (UKHLS), it was found that a latent class model with three unobserved types best fits the data and that these types differ in terms of their observed circumstances. Decomposition analysis shows that about two-thirds of the total inequality in allostatic load can be attributed to the direct and indirect contribution of circumstances.

Chair: Nicolas Silva. Discussant: Padraig Dixon.

Uncertainty in patient trade-offs: issues in the reporting of marginal rates of substitution in discrete choice experiments

Wednesday, 8 January, 10:30 – 11:25, Northumbrian

Author: David Mott, Nour Chami and Tommi Tervonen

Summary: The primary objective of this paper was to review recently published discrete choice experiment (DCE) studies that elicit patient preferences in relation to the reporting of marginal rates of substitution (MRS). A further objective was to explore the accuracy of using other reported information to estimate the uncertainty of MRS when it is not reported.

Chair: Tara Homer. Discussant: Katherine Carr.

Risk calculation engines, cost-effectiveness analysis, and Microsoft Excel: lessons from an intractable model

Wednesday, 8 January, 11:45 – 12:45, Rocket

Author: Chris Sampson

Summary: Decision analytic cost-effectiveness models are increasingly complex. One contemporary demonstration of this is the potential to integrate risk calculation engines, which can be used to dynamically determine parameters within a model. Microsoft Excel is one of the most commonly used software packages for the development of cost-effectiveness models, but it has recently faced criticism due to its supposed limitations. The purposes of this paper are twofold – first, to provide guidance on the incorporation of risk calculation engines into cost-effectiveness models and, second, to outline some of the practical limitations of Excel in this context

Chair: Helen Dakin. Discussant: Ed Wilson.

OHE team members will be chairing and discussing others’ papers at the following sessions:

Monday 6 January

An essay on the measurement of total health inequalities at the individual level

15:30 – 16:30, Locomotion 1

Author: Nicolas Silva-Illanes

Chair: Bernarda Zamora. Discussant: Morgan Beeson.

Tuesday 7 January

Emergency readmissions as a quality measure: The impact of definition on the output and productivity of the English NHS

09:30 – 10:25, Locomotion 1

Author: Idaira Rodriguez Santana

Chair: Helen Mason. Discussant: Bernarda Zamora.

The Impact of Hosting a Major International Sporting Event on Health and Health-related Behaviours

09:30 – 10:25, Locomotion 2

Author: Sean Gavan

Chair: Adam Wagner. Discussant: Mireia Jofre-Bonet.

Does public adult social care expenditure improve care-related quality of life in England?

09:30 – 10:25, Rocket

Author: Francesco Longo

Chair: Stavros Petrou. Discussant: Chris Sampson.

The role of GPs risk attitudes and personalities in the uptake of procedural or specialist services in rural areas

10:30 – 11:25, Locomotion 2

Author: Xuemin Zhu

Chair: Ranya Alakraa. Discussant: Kyann Zhang.

General practice employment models and job satisfaction: Evidence from the GP Worklife Survey in England 2001-2017

13:45 – 14:45, Locomotion 1

Author: Jon Gibson

Chair: Mireia Jofre-Bonet. Discussant: Ashleigh Kernohan.

Estimating the economic impact of digital health interventions using routinely collected data and quasi-experimental methods: a case study in primary care patient safety

15:30 – 16:30, Rocket

Author: Leonie Brinkmann

Chair: Chris Sampson. Discussant: Martin Downes.

Wednesday 8 January

Empirical comparison of capability instruments in mental health research: OxCAP-MH vs. ICECAP-A in schizophrenic patients with depression

09:30 – 10:25, Northumbrian 

Author: Timea Helter

Chair: Xuemin Zhu. Discussant: David Mott.