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Netherlands
2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
73
Citations
18994
World Ranking
399
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Werner B. F. Brouwer is affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of economics, health systems, and quality of life, with a specialization in economics, econometrics, and finance.

Their scholarly output covers a range of topics within health economics and related fields. The main topics of their work include:

  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Healthcare cost, quality, practices
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

Werner Brouwer's contributions span various subfields, highlighting a diverse research portfolio across:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • General Health Professions
  • Health
  • Social Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science

Their frequent publications appear in a number of peer-reviewed journals, notably:

  • The European Journal of Health Economics
  • Health Economics
  • Value in Health
  • PharmacoEconomics
  • Social Science & Medicine

Werner Brouwer has collaborated extensively with several researchers in the field, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Job van Exel
  • Vivian Reckers-Droog
  • Tom Stargardt
  • Leona Hakkaart-van Roijen
  • Sebastian Neumann-Böhme

Their work includes studies addressing various aspects of health policy and public health, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Selected recent papers include:

  • Once we have it, will we use it? A European survey on willingness to be vaccinated against COVID-19, 2020, The European Journal of Health Economics
  • United but divided: Policy responses and people's perceptions in the EU during the COVID-19 outbreak, 2020, Health Policy
  • Risk communication during COVID-19: A descriptive study on familiarity with, adherence to and trust in the WHO preventive measures, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • The Mental Health Quality of Life Questionnaire (MHQoL): development and first psychometric evaluation of a new measure to assess quality of life in people with mental health problems, 2021, Quality of Life Research
  • Blood donation in times of crisis: Early insight into the impact of COVID-19 on blood donors and their motivation to donate across European countries, 2021, Vox Sanguinis

Best Publications

  • Once we have it, will we use it? A European survey on willingness to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

    Sebastian Neumann-Böhme;Nirosha Elsem Varghese;Iryna Sabat;Pedro P. Barros

  • Economic valuation of informal care. An overview of methods and applications

    Bernard van den Berg;Werner B. F. Brouwer;Marc A. Koopmanschap

  • Welfarism vs. extra-welfarism.

    Werner B.F. Brouwer;Anthony J. Culyer;Anthony J. Culyer;N. Job A. van Exel;Frans F.H. Rutten

  • The iMTA Productivity Cost Questionnaire: A Standardized Instrument for Measuring and Valuing Health-Related Productivity Losses

    Clazien Bouwmans;Marieke Krol;Hans Severens;Marc Koopmanschap

  • The CarerQol instrument: A new instrument to measure care-related quality of life of informal caregivers for use in economic evaluations

    W. B. F. Brouwer;N. J. A. van Exel;B. van Gorp;W. K. Redekop

  • Lifetime medical costs of obesity: prevention no cure for increasing health expenditure.

    Pieter H. M. van Baal;Johan J. Polder;Johan J. Polder;G. Ardine de Wit;Rudolf T. Hoogenveen

  • Discounting in Economic Evaluations

    Arthur E. Attema;Werner B. F. Brouwer;Karl Claxton

  • Productivity losses without absence: Measurement validation and empirical evidence

    W.B.F. Brouwer;M.A. Koopmanschap;F.F.H. Rutten

  • Caring for and caring about: Disentangling the caregiver effect and the family effect

    Ana Bobinac;N. Job A. van Exel;Frans F.H. Rutten;Werner B.F. Brouwer

  • An Overview of Methods and Applications to Value Informal Care in Economic Evaluations of Healthcare

    Marc A. Koopmanschap;N. Job A. van Exel;Bernard van den Berg;Werner B. F. Brouwer

  • Need for differential discounting of costs and health effects in cost effectiveness analyses.

    Werner B F Brouwer;Louis W Niessen;Maarten J Postma;Frans F H Rutten

  • Process utility from providing informal care: the benefit of caring.

    Werner B.F. Brouwer;N. Job A. van Exel;Bernard van den Berg;Geertruidis A.M. van den Bos

  • Economic valuation of informal care: lessons from the application of the opportunity costs and proxy good methods

    Bernard van den Berg;Werner Brouwer;Job van Exel;Marc Koopmanschap

  • Productivity Costs Measurement Through Quality of Life? A Response to the Recommendation of the Washington Panel

    Werner B. F. Brouwer;Marc A. Koopmanschap;Frans F. H. Rutten

  • Productivity Costs in Economic Evaluations: Past, Present, Future

    Marieke Krol;Werner Brouwer;Frans Rutten

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

    Karl Claxton;Mike Paulden;Hugh Gravelle;Werner Brouwer

  • Quality of life instruments for economic evaluations in health and social care for older people: a systematic review.

    Peter Makai;Werner B.F. Brouwer;Marc A. Koopmanschap;Elly A. Stolk

  • How to Estimate Productivity Costs in Economic Evaluations

    Marieke Krol;Werner Brouwer

  • United but divided: Policy responses and people's perceptions in the EU during the COVID-19 outbreak.

    Iryna Sabat;Sebastian Neuman-Böhme;Nirosha Elsem Varghese;Pedro Pita Barros

  • On the economic foundations of CEA. Ladies and gentlemen, take your positions!

    Werner B.F Brouwer;Marc A Koopmanschap

  • Handbook of Health Economics

    Frans Rutten;Han Bleichrodt;Werner Brouwer;Marc Koopmanschap

  • Unrelated Future Costs and Unrelated Future Benefits: Reflections on NICE Guide to the Methods of Technology Appraisal

    Alec Morton;Amanda I Adler;David Bell;Andrew Briggs

Frequent Co-Authors

Job van Exel
Job van Exel Erasmus University Rotterdam
Marc A. Koopmanschap
Marc A. Koopmanschap Erasmus University Rotterdam
Frans F. H. Rutten
Frans F. H. Rutten University Medical Center Utrecht
László Gulácsi
László Gulácsi Óbuda University
Aki Tsuchiya
Aki Tsuchiya University of Sheffield
Elly A. Stolk
Elly A. Stolk Erasmus University Rotterdam
John Brazier
John Brazier University of Sheffield
Jan De Maeseneer
Jan De Maeseneer Ghent University
Cam Donaldson
Cam Donaldson Glasgow Caledonian University
Louis W. Niessen
Louis W. Niessen Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

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