Health economic evaluation may be defined as ”the comparative analysis of alternative courses of action in terms of both their costs and consequences” and is used to provide guidance for decisions aiming at improving the efficiency of the allocation of resources to improve health.
Research is also performed in behavioral economics, a research area based in economics and psychology. Behavioral economics studies economic decision making in experiments in order to improve the explanatory and predictive power of economic models. Ongoing projects are multidisciplinary in economics, health and medicine.
Education is a significant part of the activities of the research group, where the Master's Programme in Health Economics, Policy and Management plays a major role.
Research in the media
A study, published in Fertility and Sterility, conducted by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden in collaboration with the Stockholm School of Economics shows that one of the most common combined oral contraceptive pills has a negative impact on women’s quality of life. Read more about the study Oral contraceptives reduce general well-being in healthy women.
In a previous study, published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism in 2016, Niklas Zethraeus and co-authors show that oral contraceptives have no negative impact on overall sexual function, although three (desire, arousal, and pleasure) of seven sexual function domains were adversely affected.