Economic analysis of inter-relationships between private health insurance and health expenditures

卫生保健服务涉及私人和公共资金和提供的复杂组合。私人健康保险激励等政策举措与结果之间的联系往往不明确。这个项目涉及对个人健康保险和医疗保健消费决定及其相互作用的详细经济和计量经济学调查，以及由此对公共和私营部门的医疗保健利用和支出的影响。该项目的意义在于它使用了创新的方法来结合几个数据源，以及由此产生的模型有可能预测未来卫生政策倡议的影响。

Health care services involve a complex mix of private and public funding and provision. The links between policy initiatives, such as private health insurance incentives, and outcomes are often unclear. This project involves a detailed economic and econometric investigation of individual health insurance and health care consumption decisions and their interaction, and the resulting impact on health care utilisation and expenditure across public and private sectors. The significance of the project lies in its use of innovative methods to combine several data sources, and in the potential for the resulting models to predict the impact of future health policy initiatives.