Treatment of localized prostate cancer is well established and consists primarily of expectant management (active surveillance) and definitive treatment (radical prostatectomy or radiation). Yet, the evidence to date of their comparative effectiveness relies primarily on randomized controlled trials, which suffer from small...

As part of the Research Results live event “Climate & Health: Opportunities and Challenges for Politics & Society” on 26 November 2024, Dr. Claudia Konnopka (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf) and Prof. Dr. Moritz Drupp (University of Hamburg) presented their research results and discussed the topic with Dr...

From October 7-8, 2024 the 9th Workshop in Behavioral and Experimental Health Economics (BEHnet) took place at the HCHE. The BEH workshop brought together economists and behavioural scientists who apply behavioural economic insights and experimental methods to investigate health-related decisions. This year the Hamburg...

At the first Research-in-Progress workshop, the doctoral students of the GRK “Managerial and economic dimensions of health care quality” presented the progress of their research and discussed the current status and future projects. After the first year, the Research-in-Progress workshop represents an important milestone in...

A very warm welcome to Professor Biliana Yontcheva, who will join the Universität Hamburg (Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences) in November 2024. Within the Professorship for Health Economics with an emphasis on empirical methods, she will be a new core member at the HCHE. Biliana Yontcheva joins the HCHE...

HCHE’s Carolin Brinkmann visits the Erasmus University Rotterdam for the last project of her dissertation between August and October 2024. The project compares two well-being theories for their implications in health policy decision-making. Prof. Job van Exel and Prof. Werner Brouwer of the Erasmus School of Health Policy &amp...