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Luigi Siciliani is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom, focusing on research that intersects economics and health professions. Their work spans a variety of topics primarily centered on healthcare policy, management, and global health challenges.

The main fields of study for Siciliani include Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Health Professions. These are further detailed into subfields of Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Finance, Health, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

The scientist's research covers major topics such as Healthcare Policy and Management, Global Health Care Issues, Primary Care and Health Outcomes, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Healthcare Systems and Reforms, Health disparities and outcomes, and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology.

Frequent publication venues for Siciliani include:

  • Health Policy
  • Journal of Health Economics
  • Health Economics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Siciliani has contributed to several recent papers that reflect a focus on health policy and system improvements:

  • From Health in All Policies to Health for All Policies (2022, The Lancet Public Health)
  • The best person (or machine) for the job: Rethinking task shifting in healthcare (2020, Health Policy)
  • Strengthening vaccination programmes and health systems in the European Union: A framework for action (2020, Health Policy)
  • Gaps in coverage and access in the European Union (2020, Health Policy)
  • Building on value-based health care: Towards a health system perspective (2023, Health Policy)

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable co-authors include:

  • Odd Rune Straume
  • Martin McKee
  • Dionne Kringos
  • Jan De Maeseneer
  • Pedro Pita Barros

In addition to journal articles, Siciliani has contributed to book publications. One such example is a book titled Public Health Care, published by Cambridge University Press in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Tackling excessive waiting times for elective surgery: a comparative analysis of policies in 12 OECD countries.

    Luigi Siciliani;Jeremy Hurst

  • Explaining Waiting Times Variations for Elective Surgery Across OECD Countries

    Luigi Siciliani;Jeremy Hurst

  • Measuring and Comparing Health Care Waiting Times in OECD Countries

    Luigi Siciliani;Valerie Moran;Michael Borowitz

  • Tackling Excessive Waiting Times for Elective Surgery: A Comparison of Policies in Twelve OECD Countries

    Jeremy Hurst;Luigi Siciliani

  • Hospital Competition and Quality with Regulated Prices

    Kurt R. Brekke;Luigi Siciliani;Odd Rune Straume

  • Choice of hospital: Which type of quality matters?

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

  • How to govern the digital transformation of health services

    Walter Ricciardi;Pedro Pita Barros;Aleš Bourek;Werner Brouwer

  • The Effects of Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages across different Income Groups

    Anurag Sharma;Katharina Diana Hauck;Bruce Hollingsworth;Luigi Siciliani

  • Socioeconomic inequality of access to healthcare: Does choice explain the gradient?

    Giuseppe Moscelli;Luigi Siciliani;Nils Gutacker;Richard Andrew Cookson

  • Waiting Times and Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from England

    Mauro Laudicella;Luigi Siciliani;Richard Cookson

  • Waiting times and socioeconomic status among elderly Europeans: evidence from SHARE

    Luigi Siciliani;Rossella Verzulli

  • From Health in All Policies to Health for All Policies

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  • Competition and waiting times in hospital markets

    Kurt Richard Brekke;Luigi Siciliani;Odd Rune Straume

  • Waiting Time Policies in the Health Sector: What works?

    Luigi Siciliani;Michael Borowitz;Valerie Moran

  • Quality competition with profit constraints

    Kurt Richard Brekke;Luigi Siciliani;Odd Rune Straume;Odd Rune Straume

  • Testing the bed-blocking hypothesis: does nursing and care home supply reduce delayed hospital discharges?

    James Gaughan;Hugh Gravelle;Luigi Siciliani

  • Location, quality and choice of hospital: Evidence from England 2002–2013

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

  • Does a hospital's quality depend on the quality of other hospitals? A spatial econometrics approach.

    Hugh Stanley Emrys Gravelle;Rita Santos;Luigi Siciliani

  • Price and quality in spatial competition

    Kurt Richard Brekke;Luigi Siciliani;Odd Rune Straume;Odd Rune Straume

  • Patient Choice, Mobility and Competition Among Health Care Providers

    Kurt R. Brekke;Hugh Gravelle;Luigi Siciliani;Odd Rune Straume;Odd Rune Straume

  • Hospital competition and quality with regulated prices

    Kurt R. Brekke;Luigi Siciliani;Odd Rune Straume

  • Does a hospital’s quality depend on the quality of other Hospitals? A spatial econometrics approach to investigating hospital quality competition

    Hugh Stanley Emrys Gravelle;Rita Santos;Luigi Siciliani

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Street
Andrew Street London School of Economics and Political Science
Jan De Maeseneer
Jan De Maeseneer Ghent University
Matt Sutton
Matt Sutton University of Manchester
Martin McKee
Martin McKee London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Richard Cookson
Richard Cookson University of York
Margaret M. Barry
Margaret M. Barry University of Galway
Anthony Harris
Anthony Harris University of Sydney
Marc Suhrcke
Marc Suhrcke University of York
Edward C. Norton
Edward C. Norton University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Richard G. Frank
Richard G. Frank Harvard University

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