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Karsten Vrangbæk

Karsten Vrangbæk

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Political Science

D-Index
32
Citations
3807
World Ranking
1028
National Ranking
19

Overview

Karsten Vrangbæk is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Health Professions and Medicine, with a focus on General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Clinical Psychology, Epidemiology, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies

Karsten Vrangbæk has frequently published in several academic venues, such as:

  • Health Policy
  • European Journal of Public Health
  • Health Economics Policy and Law
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • BMC Health Services Research

The scientist has collaborated often with the following co-authors:

  • Per Nilsén
  • Ida Seing
  • Antonio Giulio de Belvis
  • Madelon Kroneman
  • Thomas Kallemose

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Nordic responses to Covid-19: Governance and policy measures in the early phases of the pandemic" (2021, Health Policy)
  • "Balancing financial incentives during COVID-19: A comparison of provider payment adjustments across 20 countries" (2021, Health Policy)
  • "Effect of allogeneic adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stromal cell treatment in chronic ischaemic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction - the SCIENCE trial" (2023, European Journal of Heart Failure)
  • "Achieving higher performing primary care through patient registration: A review of twelve high-income countries" (2021, Health Policy)
  • "Should I stay or should I go? The role of leadership and organisational context for hospital physicians' intention to leave their current job" (2020, BMC Health Services Research)

Best Publications

  • Decentralization In Health Care: Strategies And Outcomes

    Richard B. Saltman;Vaida Bankauskaite;Karsten Vrangbæk

  • Nordic Health Care Systems: Recent Reforms And Current Policy Challenges

    Jon Magnussen;Karsten Vrangbæk;Richard B. Saltman

  • Public Values and Public Service Motivation Conceptual and Empirical Relationships

    Lotte Bøgh Andersen;Torben Beck Jørgensen;Anne Mette Kjeldsen;Lene Holm Pedersen

  • Is Contracting out of Public Services still the Great Panacea? A Systematic Review of Studies on Economic and Quality Effects from 2000 to 2014

    Ole Helby Petersen;Ulf Hjelmar;Karsten Vrangbæk

  • Public Value Dimensions: Developing and Testing a Multi-Dimensional Classification

    Lotte Bøgh Andersen;Torben Beck Jørgensen;Anne Mette Kjeldsen;Lene Holm Pedersen

  • Are health problems systemic? Politics of access and choice under Beveridge and Bismarck systems

    Zeynep Or;Chantal Cases;Melanie Lisac;Karsten Vrangbæk

  • Patient reactions to hospital choice in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden.

    Karsten Vrangbaek;Katarina Østergren;Hans Okkels Birk;Ulrika Winblad

  • Nordic responses to Covid-19: Governance and policy measures in the early phases of the pandemic.

    Ingrid Sperre Saunes;Karsten Vrangbæk;Haldor Byrkjeflot;Signe Smith Jervelund

  • The Europeanization of Health Care Governance - Implementing the Market Imperatives of Europe

    Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen;Karsten Vrangbæk

  • Health care systems in transition: Denmark

    Signild Vallgårda;Allan Krasnik;Karsten Vrangbæk

  • Reform by Coincidence? Explaining the Policy Process of Structural Reform in Denmark

    Ulrik Bundgaard;Karsten Vrangbæk

  • Choice policies in Northern European health systems.

    Karsten Vrangbaek;Ruth Robertson;Ulrika Winblad;Hester Van de Bovenkamp

  • Health policy in Denmark: leaving the decentralized welfare path?

    Karsten Vrangbæk;Terkel Christiansen

  • Hospital centralization and performance in Denmark: ten years on

    Terkel Christiansen;Karsten Vrangbæk

  • Advocacy coalitions and pharmacy policy in Denmark--solid cores with fuzzy edges.

    Jakob Bjerg Larsen;Karsten Vrangbæk;Janine M. Traulsen

  • Is Contracting Out Good or Bad for Employees? A Review of International Experience

    Karsten Vrangbæk;Ole Helby Petersen;Ulf Hjelmar

  • Coordination between primary and secondary healthcare in Denmark and Sweden

    Sarah Wadmann;Martin Strandberg-Larsen;Karsten Vrangbæk

  • Comparing public and private providers : a scoping review of hospital services in Europe

    Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen;Karsten Vrangbæk

  • Reshaping public accountability: hospital reforms in Germany, Norway and Denmark

    Paola Mattei;Mahima Mitra;Karsten Vrangbæk;Simon Neby

  • Balancing financial incentives during COVID-19: A comparison of provider payment adjustments across 20 countries.

    Ruth Waitzberg;Sophie Gerkens;Antoniya Dimova;Lucie Bryndová

  • Rationale and design of the European multicentre study on Stem Cell therapy in IschEmic Non-treatable Cardiac diseasE (SCIENCE).

    Paitazoglou C;Bergmann Mw;Vrtovec B;Chamuleau Saj

  • Structural Reform in Denmark, 2007–09: Central Reform Processes in a Decentralised Environment

    Karsten Vrangbæk

  • Patient involvement in Danish health care

    Karsten Vrangbaek

  • Value Dynamics: Towards a Framework for Analyzing Public Value Changes

    Torben Beck Jørgensen;Karsten Vrangbæk

  • Public Sector Values in Denmark: A Survey Analysis

    Karsten Vrangbæk

  • Public/private ownership and quality of care: Evidence from Danish nursing homes.

    Ulf Hjelmar;Yosef Bhatti;Ole Helby Petersen;Tine Rostgaard

  • The Europeanisation of Health Care Governance: Implementing the Market Imperatives of Europe

    Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen;Karsten Vrangbæk

  • Organised Interests, Authority Structures and Political Influence: Danish and Norwegian Patient Groups Compared

    Ståle Opedal;Hilmar Rommetvedt;Karsten Vrangbæk

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom Christensen
Tom Christensen University of Oslo
Allan Krasnik
Allan Krasnik University of Copenhagen
Francisco O. Ramirez
Francisco O. Ramirez Stanford University
Marina Karanikolos
Marina Karanikolos London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen
Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen University of Copenhagen
Freimut Schliess
Freimut Schliess Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Per Nilsen
Per Nilsen Linköping University
Jakob E. Bardram
Jakob E. Bardram Technical University of Denmark

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