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Eddy K.A. van Doorslaer, PhD


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Affiliations:

is a Professor of Health Economics at the Department of Health Policy and Management of the Erasmus Medical Centre and at the Department of Applied Economics of the Erasmus School of Economics. He also holds an Adjunct Professorship at the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation of the University of Technology (Sydney) and he is a Research Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute.

Education:

He obtained an MSc in Economics at the University of Antwerp (B), an MSc in Health Economics at the University of York (UK), and a PhD in Economics at the University of Maastricht (NL).

Editorships:

He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Health Economics (Elsevier), Health Economics (Wiley) and of the Journal of Health Services Research and Policy.

Teaching:

He is one of the Programme Directors of the MSc in Health Economics  offered by the Erasmus University which started in September 2003. This Master partly overlaps with the MSc in Health Economics, Policy and Law offered by the Department of Health Policy and Management.

Research:

His main research interest is international comparisons of equity in health and health care. He is currently directing research projects on equity in health and health care funded by the EU (EQUITAP), the OECD (Equity in Access), and the EU (ECuity Project). Together with Professor Maarten Lindeboom of the Free University of Amsterdam, he coordinates a research theme on “Income, health and labor across the life cycle” as part of the Netspar Research Programme at the University of Tilburg.

He has also acted as a health economics consultant to the World Bank, WHO and UNICEF.

Address:
E-mail: e.vandoorslaer@erasmusmc.nl and vandoorslaer@few.eur.nl

PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Tel: +31 10 408 8538 and +31 10 4082566

CV:
Click here for a full list of his publications or his curriculum vitae.

2008

  • Meheus, F and E van Doorslaer, Socio-economic differences in measles immunization: evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys, Social Science & Medicine, (Forthcoming, 2008)
  • Flores Pentzke, G, J Krishnakumar, O O’Donnell and E van Doorslaer, Coping with Health Care Costs: Implications for the Measurement of Catastrophic Expenditures and Poverty, Health Economics (Forthcoming 2008)
  • O’Donnell, O, A Nicolas Lopez and E van Doorslaer, Growing richer, growing taller: explaining change in the distribution of child height during Vietnam’s economic boom, Journal of Development Economics (Forthcoming 2008)
  • Hanley GE, S Morgan, J Hurley, E van Doorslaer, Distributional consequences of the transition from age-based to income-based prescription drug coverage in British Columbia, Canada, Health Economics, 2008 [Epub ahead of print; Jan 11] DOI: 10.1002/hec.1337
2007
  • Jansen, E, RMPM Baltussen, E van Doorslaer, E Ngirwamungu, MP Nguyen and P Kilima, An eye for inequality: how trachoma relates to poverty in Tanzania and Vietnam, Ophtalmic Epidemiology, 2007, 14: 278-287
  • Van Doorslaer E, Ph Clarke, E Savage, J Hall, Horizontal inequities in Australia’s mixed public/private health care system, Health Policy, 2007 [Nov 12; Epub ahead of print] doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2007.09.018
  • Van de Poel, E, O O’Donnell and E van Doorslaer, Are urban children really healthier? Evidence from 47 developing countries, Social Science and Medicine 65(10):1986-2003
  • Jiménez D, PC Smith, E Van Doorslaer, Equity in health and health care in a decentralized context: evidence from Canada, Health Economics, 2007 [Epub ahead of print, Aug 2007] DOI: 10.1002/hec.1272
  • O’Donnell, O, E van Doorslaer, R Rannan-Eliya et al (15 authors) Who pays for health care in Asia?, Journal of Health Economics 2007 [Epub ahead of print Nov 29] doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2007.08.005
  • Bago d’Uva, T, E van Doorslaer, M Lindeboom, O O’Donnell, Does reporting heterogeneity bias the measurement of health disparities?, Health Economics, 2007 [Epublication ahead of print, Aug 13, 2007] DOI: 10.1002/hec.1269
  • Van Doorslaer, E, O O’Donnell, R Rannan-Eliya A Somanathan, SR Adhikari, CC Garg , D Harbianto, AN Herrin, MN Huq, S Ibragimova, A Karan A, TJ Lee, GM Leung, JF Lu, CW Ng, BR Pande, R Racelis, S Tao, K Tin, K Tisayaticom, L Trisnantoro, C Vasavid, Y Zhao, Catastrophic payments for health care in Asia, Health Economics, 2007, 16(11): 1159-84
  • O’Donnell, O, E van Doorslaer, R Rannan-Eliya et al (18 authors) The incidence of public spending on health care: comparative evidence from Asia , World Bank Economic Review, 2007, 21, 1, 93–123
  • Lu, RJ, GM Leung, S Kwon, KYK Tin, E van Doorslaer, O O’Donnell, Horizontal equity in health care utilization - evidence from three high-income Asian economies, Social Science & Medicine, 64 (2007) 199–212
2006
  • Van Doorslaer, E, O O’Donnell, R Rannan-Eliya et al (20 authors) Effect of payments for health care on poverty estimates in 11 countries in Asia: an analysis of household survey data, The Lancet, 2006, 368, 1357-1364
  • Hosseinpoor AR, E Van Doorslaer, N Speybroeck, M Naghavi, K Mohammad, R Majdzadeh, B Delavar, H Jamshidi and J Vega, Decomposing socioeconomic inequality in infant mortality in Iran, Int J Epid, 2006, 35 (5): 1119-1122
  • Jones, AM, E van Doorslaer, T Bago d’Uva, S Balia, L Gambin, C Hernandez Quevedo, X Koolman and N Rice, Health and wealth: empirical findings and political consequences, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftpolitik, 2006, 7, 93-112
  • Van Doorslaer, E, C Masseria, X Koolman and the OECD Health Equity Group, Inequalities in access to medical care by income in developed countries, Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2006, 174: 177 - 183
  • Bleichrodt, H & E van Doorslaer, A welfare economics foundation for health inequality measurement, Journal of Health Economics, 2006, 25(5): 945-957
2005
  • O’Donnell, O., F. Rosati, and E Van Doorslaer, Health effects of child work: evidence from rural Vietnam, 2005, Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18: 1-31.
2004
  • Van Doorslaer, E and AM Jones, Income-related inequality in health and health care in the European Union, Health Economics, 2004, 13 (7): 605-608
  • Van Doorslaer, E, X Koolman, AM Jones, Explaining income-related inequalities in health care utilisation in Europe, Health Economics, 2004, 13(7): 629-647
  • Lindeboom, M, and E van Doorslaer, Cut-point shift and index shift in self-reported health, Journal of Health Economics, 2004, 23 (6): 1083-99
  • Van Doorslaer, E, X Koolman, Explaining the differences in income-related health inequalities across European countries, Health Economics, 2004, 13(7): 609-628
  • Wagstaff, A and E van Doorslaer, Overall versus socioeconomic inequality in health: a measurement framework and two empirical applications, Health Economics, 2004, 13: 297-301
  • Koolman, X and E van Doorslaer, On the interpretation of a concentration index of inequality, Health Economics, 2004, 13 (7): 649-656
  • Thiry N, Beutels P, Van Damme P, Van Doorslaer E. Economic evaluation of varicella vaccination programmes: a review of the literature. The authors' reply. Pharmacoeconomics. 2004; 22(2): 136-8.