CSI
Health
Tuesday, 15th March 2011
Tea served from 5pm
Seminar at 5.30pm
Room 2.09, School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London,
Mile End Campus
“Health incentives and equity: Empirical
findings and conceptual issues”
Harald Schmidt
Research Associate, LSE Health, London School of Economics; Fellow, Centre for
Advanced Studies in Bioethics, Universität Münster
Chair: Prof Richard Ashcroft
Professor of Bioethics, School of Law, QMUL
Discussant: Dr Stephen John
Research Fellow, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University
of Cambridge
Followed by drinks on the Ground Floor lobby, School of Law
Incentives for health are used for a range of different reasons which include:
to promote health; to curb or reduce health care expenditure; to promote
workforce productivity; and/or to enhance competition among providers of
healthcare. In the best case, programs achieve all of these objectives. But
problems can arise when the focus is on particular rationales only, especially
where this leads to situations in which not everyone has a fair chance to use
incentive programs. This talk reviews some of the lessons that can be learned
from the use of incentives in Germany and the US. Empirical data are
presented on which income and health status groups most frequently use
incentives, and a practical proposal is made for analyzing conceptual
questions around who benefits from incentives, and to what extent we
should be concerned if not all benefit equally. Some relevant papers can be
found at: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/schmidth/
Directions to the venue can be obtained from the following link:
http://www.qmul.ac.uk/about/howtofindus/mileend/index.html
A map of the QMUL campus is below
CSI Health is a collaboration between King’s College London, Queen Mary
University of London and the London School of Economics.
It is funded by a Strategic Award in Biomedical Ethics from The Wellcome
Trust.
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/biohealth/research/csincentiveshealth/
This event is open to all and free to attend.
To book your place, please email
rebecca.whiting@kcl.ac.uk