Events
In sickness but not in wealth
Wednesday 23 January 2013
We run a field experiment to assess whether preferences for risk significantly differ across the health and the financial domain. We administrate an experimental test to a sample of 300 patients attending outpatients' clinics in a university hospital in Athens, during the Greek financial crisis. We elicit preferences for risk in a financial context by using variants of the Holt and Laury (2002) paired lotteries test with hypothetical payments. We adapt this test to the health domain framing the lotteries as risky health treatments under a hypothetical health scenario. We estimate the degree of risk aversion for subjects in the sample, in both the financial and the health domain, allowing for the estimates to vary with individual health, income and other control variables. Despite being exposed to both health and financial distress, subjects in our sample tend to be less risk averse in the financial than in the health domain.
Surrey Informatics Summer School 2013
Sunday 30 June 2013
Building on the success of Surrey Informatics Summer School (SISS) -2012, the University of Surrey would like to announce SISS-2013.
Who is this for?
Clinicians, researchers and data analysts wanting to work with routine health data.
- Researchers: PhD, potential PhD students or researchers using routine health data
- Leaders and managers of health care organisations wanting to improve their use of health data
- Medical records staff looking to extend their skills
- Public health trainees and specialists
- Data analysts: In health care providers or commissioners - Social sciences and social care students wishing to work with health data
International delegates are especially welcome - although we will use UK health data for analysis we will include commonly used international systems.
