In March 2025, “Public Health Care”, a new book on the topic of public health financing, was published. HCHE member Prof. Dr. Mathias Kifmann is one of four authors of the textbook published by Cambridge Elements, which is initially available online free of charge (until 25 March 2025). The printed work will be available on...

The planned special infrastructure fund also includes money for the healthcare sector. This could be both a blessing and a curse, warns Professor Jonas Schreyögg. The Scientific Director of the Hamburg Center for Health Economics at the University of Hamburg is also Deputy Chairman of the German Advisory Council on Health...

The HCHE's research seminar series will kick off the upcoming summer semester on April 14, 2025 with a varied program. National and international guests will present their health economics research in Hamburg. Samantha Pollard and Deirdre Weymann from Simon Fraser University (Canada) will discuss the evaluation of certain...

A research team from the Hamburg Center for Health Economics at the University of Hamburg has gained new insights into the factors that influence the decision of hospitals to provide procedures on an outpatient basis. Despite a uniform payment system, there is still a significant variation in the extent to which hospitals...

Members of the Hamburg Center for Health Economics published over 200 papers in around 60 journals in 2024. The topics range from the financing of the healthcare system, incentives for hospitals and phiysicians, market mechanisms for pharmaceuticals, risk taking in social settings or health risk perception during the...

Extreme temperatures lead to more emergencies, according to an analysis of inpatient hospital data from 2010 to 2019: compared to days with moderate temperatures, around 20,550 more people were admitted to hospital as emergencies on the hottest 5% of days per year. The mortality rate of emergency hospital admissions was...