Health Economics & Management

Health Economics & Management can be defined as the application of the theories, concepts and techniques of economics and management to any issue related to health. During the last decades there has been a growing interest in this field which partly can be explained by the reduced economic growth, deficits in public budgets and increased unemployment rates in the 1990s and partly by the rapid introduction of new and more expensive health care technologies. The increasing number of treatments that potentially can be used to improve health has led to a widening gap between what the health sector technically can achieve and what society is able and willing to pay. This has led to an increased attention to economic research questions in the health sector.Read more about HEM The aim of Health Economics & Management is to initiate, support and facilitate health economics & management research across faculties and departments within Lund University. The program includes researchers at the Lund University School of Economics and Management (Department of Economics, Department of Business Administration and Institute of Economics Research) and Medical Faculty (Department of Clinical Sciences Research and Department of Health and Society).

HEM Reference Group

Prof. Carl Hampus Lyttkens (Department of Economics)
Econ. Dr. Gert Paulsson (Department of Business Administration)
Prof. Peter Nilsson (Department of Clinical Sciences)
Econ. Dr. Ulf Ramberg (KEFU, Department of Business Administration)
M.D. Claes Arén (Deputy hospital director, Skåne University Hospital)

Participating Departments:

Department of Economics Department of Business Administration Division of Health Economics, Department of Clinical Sciences - Malmö Institute of Economic Research

 

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