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Stephen Birch is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and has a research focus spanning health professions and medicine, with particular expertise in general health professions and economics and econometrics. Their work also encompasses subfields such as endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, emergency medical services, and periodontics.

The scientist's research predominantly addresses global health workforce issues, dental health and care utilization, healthcare policy and management, as well as health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life. Primary care and health outcomes alongside occupational therapy practice and research are also notable areas of their scholarly activity.

Stephen Birch has contributed to various publications, with recent papers including:

  • "Global priorities for climate change and mental health research" (2021) in Environment International
  • "Relationships between job satisfaction, organizational commitment, burnout and job performance of healthcare professionals in a district-level health care system of Shenzhen, China" (2022) in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Reorienting Oral Health Services to Prevention: Economic Perspectives" (2021) in Journal of Dental Research
  • "Area-Level Variation in Children's Unmet Need for Community-Based Mental Health Services: Findings from the 2014 Ontario Child Health Study" (2020) in Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research
  • "Planning the oral health workforce: Time for innovation" (2020) in Community Dentistry And Oral Epidemiology

Frequent co-authors in Stephen Birch's publications include Martin Tickle, Tanya Walsh, Indraneel Banerjee, Thomas Allen, and Christina M. Bernardes.

Their research appears regularly in venues such as Community Dentistry And Oral Epidemiology, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, PubMed, Social Science & Medicine, and Frontiers in Endocrinology.

Best Publications

  • Access as a policy-relevant concept in low- and middle-income countries

    Diane McIntyre;Michael Thiede;Stephen Birch

  • Cost effectiveness/utility analyses. Do current decision rules lead us to where we want to be?

    Stephen Birch;Amiram Gafni

  • Who you know, where you live: social capital, neighbourhood and health

    Gerry Veenstra;Isaac Luginaah;Sarah Wakefield;Stephen Birch

  • Incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs): the silence of the lambda.

    Amiram Gafni;Stephen Birch

  • Exploring inequalities in access to and use of maternal health services in South Africa

    Sheetal P Silal;Loveday Penn-Kekana;Bronwyn Harris;Stephen Birch;Stephen Birch;Stephen Birch

  • A review and analysis of placebo treatments, placebo effects, and placebo controls in trials of medical procedures when sham is not inert.

    Stephen Birch

  • Guidelines for the adoption of new technologies: a prescription for uncontrolled growth in expenditures and how to avoid the problem

    A. Gafni;Stephen Birch

  • Valuing the benefits and costs of health care programmes: where's the 'extra' in extra-welfarism?

    Stephen Birch;Cam Donaldson

  • “Interaction” and research utilisation in health policies and programs: does it work?

    Anita Kothari;Stephen Birch;Cathy Charles

  • The identification of supplier-inducement in a fixed price system of health care provision. The case of dentistry in the United Kingdom

    Stephen Birch

  • The effect of different methods of remuneration on the behaviour of primary care dentists.

    Paul Brocklehurst;Juliet Price;Anne Marie Glenny;Martin Tickle

  • Unemployment and health: contextual-level influences on the production of health in populations.

    François Béland;Stephen Birch;Greg Stoddart;Greg Stoddart

  • Human Resources Planning and the Production of Health: A Needs-Based Analytical Framework

    Stephen Birch;George Kephart;Gail Tomblin-Murphy;Linda O'Brien-Pallas

  • Opportunity costs and uncertainty in the economic evaluation of health care interventions.

    P. Sendi;A. Gafni;S. Birch

  • Does the community want devolved authority? Results of deliberative polling in Ontario.

    Julia Abelson;Jonathan Lomas;John Eyles;Stephen Birch

  • Environmental influences on healthcare expenditures: an exploratory analysis from Ontario, Canada

    M Jerrett;J Eyles;C Dufournaud;S Birch

  • Economics, health and health economics: HYEs versus QALYs

    Amiram Gafni;Stephen Birch;Abraham Mehrez

  • Information Created to Evade Reality (ICER): Things We Should Not Look to for Answers

    Stephen Birch;Stephen Birch;Amiram Gafni

  • Equitable access to health care: Methodological extensions to the analysis of physician utilization in Canada

    Stephen Birch;John Eyles;K. Bruce Newbold

  • Applications of cost-benefit analysis to health care. Departures from welfare economic theory.

    Stephen Birch;Cam Donaldson

Frequent Co-Authors

Amiram Gafni
Amiram Gafni McMaster University
John Eyles
John Eyles University of the Witwatersrand
Ruth McDonald
Ruth McDonald University of Manchester
K. Bruce Newbold
K. Bruce Newbold McMaster University
Julia Abelson
Julia Abelson McMaster University
Alan Maynard
Alan Maynard University of York
Gerry Veenstra
Gerry Veenstra University of British Columbia
François Béland
François Béland University of Montreal
Helen V Worthington
Helen V Worthington University of Manchester
John Frank
John Frank University of Edinburgh

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