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Economics and Finance
UK
2024

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Economics and Finance

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60
Citations
11767
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833
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92

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  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Hugh Gravelle is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Health Professions and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a focus on General Health Professions and Economics and Econometrics as key subfields. The main topics of their academic work include Healthcare Policy and Management, Primary Care and Health Outcomes, and Global Health Care Issues. Other areas of interest are Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare, and Emergency and Acute Care Studies.

Gravelle's recent publications demonstrate a concentration on various aspects of health care quality, competition, and outcomes. Notable works include:

  • "Hospital competition and quality for non-emergency patients in the English NHS," 2021, published in The RAND Journal of Economics
  • "Patient Self-Reported Health, Clinical Quality, and Patient Satisfaction in English Primary Care: Practice-Level Longitudinal Observational Study," 2021, published in Value in Health
  • "Do small hospitals have lower quality? Evidence from the English NHS," 2020, published in Social Science & Medicine
  • "Physician Competition And Low-Value Health Care," 2021, published in American Journal of Health Economics
  • "The association between primary care quality and health-care use, costs and outcomes for people with serious mental illness: a retrospective observational study," 2020, published in Health Services and Delivery Research

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Gravelle include:

  • Nils Gutacker
  • Rita Santos
  • Giuseppe Moscelli
  • Luigi Siciliani
  • Maria Goddard

Their scholarly output has appeared repeatedly in several journals, with multiple publications in Social Science & Medicine, Health Economics, BMJ Open, and the SSRN Electronic Journal. The RAND Journal of Economics is also among the venues featuring their work.

Research interests are anchored in analyzing healthcare policy, the quality and performance of healthcare institutions, patient satisfaction, and outcomes especially in the context of primary care and hospital settings. Gravelle's work also addresses economic evaluations and health system performance, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach that combines economic methods with health services research.

Best Publications

  • Pay-for-Performance Programs in Family Practices in the United Kingdom

    Tim Doran;Catherine Fullwood;Hugh Gravelle;David Reeves

  • How much of the relation between population mortality and unequal distribution of income is a statistical artefact

    Hugh Gravelle

  • Inequity and inequality in the use of health care in England: an empirical investigation.

    Stephen Morris;Matthew Sutton;Hugh Gravelle

  • Relation between income inequality and mortality: empirical demonstrationDiminishing returns to aggregate level studiesTwo pathways, but how much do they diverge?

    Michael Wolfson;Hugh Gravelle;Richard G Wilkinson;George Kaplan

  • Measuring quality of care with routine data: avoiding confusion between performance indicators and health outcomes.

    Antonio Giuffrida;Hugh Gravelle;Martin Roland

  • Income, income inequality and health: what can we learn from aggregate data?

    Hugh Gravelle;John Wildman;Matthew Sutton

  • Discounting and decision making in the economic evaluation of health-care technologies.

    Karl Claxton;Mike Paulden;Hugh Gravelle;Werner Brouwer

  • Doctor Behaviour under a Pay for Performance Contract: Treating, Cheating and Case Finding?*

    Hugh Gravelle;Matt Sutton;Ada Hoi Yan Ma

  • Discounting for health effects in cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis.

    Hugh Gravelle;Dave Smith

  • MORTALITY AND UNEMPLOYMENT: A CRITIQUE OF BRENNER'S TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS

    H.S.E Gravelle;G Hutchinson;J Stern

  • Exclusion of Patients from Pay-for-Performance Targets by English Physicians

    Tim Doran;Catherine Fullwood;David Reeves;Hugh Gravelle

  • Choice of hospital: Which type of quality matters?

    Nils Gutacker;Luigi Siciliani;Giuseppe Moscelli;Hugh Stanley Emrys Gravelle

  • The practice of discounting in economic evaluations of healthcare interventions.

    David H. Smith;Hugh Gravelle

  • Follow up of people aged 65 and over with a history of emergency admissions: analysis of routine admission data

    Martin Roland;Mark Dusheiko;Hugh Gravelle;Stuart Parker

  • Measuring performance in primary care: econometric analysis and DEA

    Antonio Giuffrida;Hugh Gravelle

  • Effect of a national primary care pay for performance scheme on emergency hospital admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions: controlled longitudinal study

    Mark J Harrison;Mark Dusheiko;Matt Sutton;Hugh Gravelle

  • Inequality in the geographical distribution of general practitioners in England and Wales 1974-1995

    H. Gravelle;Matthew Adam Sutton

  • Job Satisfaction and Quitting Intentions: A Structural Model of British General Practitioners

    Anthony Scott;Hugh Gravelle;Steven Simoens;Chris Bojke

  • Income, relative income, and self-reported health in Britain 1979-2000.

    Hugh Gravelle;Matt Sutton

  • The effect of financial incentives on gatekeeping doctors: Evidence from a natural experiment

    Mark Dusheiko;Hugh Gravelle;Rowena Jacobs;Peter Smith

  • Discounting in economic evaluations: Stepping forward towards optimal decision rules

    Hugh Gravelle;Werner Brouwer;Louis Wilhelmus Niessen;Maarten Postma

  • No win, no fee: Some economics of contingent legal fees

    Hugh Gravelle;Michael Waterson

  • Capitation contracts: access and quality.

    Hugh Gravelle

Frequent Co-Authors

Matt Sutton
Matt Sutton University of Manchester
Luigi Siciliani
Luigi Siciliani University of York
Nigel Rice
Nigel Rice University of York
Peter C. Smith
Peter C. Smith Imperial College London
Tony Kendrick
Tony Kendrick University of Southampton
Carol Propper
Carol Propper Imperial College London
Anthony Scott
Anthony Scott University of Melbourne
Frank Windmeijer
Frank Windmeijer University of Bristol
Andrew Street
Andrew Street London School of Economics and Political Science

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