Martin Hensher

About

My research focuses on health care systems and the many challenges they face, and applying insights from ecological economics and heterodox economics to consider the problem of the ecological and economic sustainability of health care systems around the world.

Work

University of Tasmania College of Health and Medicine
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Henry Baldwin Professorial Research Fellow in Health System Sustainability

Australia

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Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Health System Financing & Organisation

Australia

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Tasmania Department of Health
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Director - Monitoring, Reporting & Analysis

Australia

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UK Department of Health
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Senior Economic Adviser

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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NHS Confederation
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Project Director, Local Hospitals Project

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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European Commission
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European Union Consultant in Health Economics

South Africa

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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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Health Economist

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Redbridge and Waltham Forest Health Authority
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Commissioning Manager

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Redbridge and Waltham Forest Family Health Services Authority
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Locality Manager

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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North West and North East Thames Regional Health Authorities
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Assistant Planner

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Education

University of Tasmania
Australia

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PhD

London School of Economics and Political Science
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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MSc(Econ) Health Financing and Planning

University of Oxford
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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BA(Hons) Politics, Philosophy and Economics

Publications

Referral Hospitals

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Financial penalty associated with a decline in hospital-acquired complications in Australia

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Health Policy

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Identifying Care and Support Needs Profiles for Home-Based Aged Care: A Latent Class Analysis Using Routinely Collected Aged Care Assessment Information

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Journal of Applied Gerontology

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Degrowth

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Characteristics, care and support needs of older Victorians requiring a government‐funded Home Care Package: An observational study

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Australasian Journal on Ageing

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What is a Wellbeing Economy, and what might its impact be on population health?

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The Lancet Public Health

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Evaluating progress and accountability for achieving COP26 Health Programme international ambitions for sustainable, low-carbon, resilient health-care systems

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The Lancet Planetary Health

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Perspectives on telehealth implementation in Australia: An exploratory qualitative study with practice managers and general practitioners

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International Journal of Medical Informatics

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Health Economics in a World of Uneconomic Growth

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Applied Health Economics and Health Policy

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Exploring opportunities to reduce scope 3 emissions in renewably powered health services

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Medical Journal of Australia

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Asthma—The canary in the Australian coalmine: Making the links between climate change, fossil fuel and public health outcomes

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Health Promotion Journal of Australia

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Health technology assessment and healthcare environmental sustainability: Prioritizing effort and maximizing impact

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International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care

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The economic burden of long COVID in Australia: more noise than signal?

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Medical Journal of Australia

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The rise of private equity investment in Australian health care

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Medical Journal of Australia

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The economics of the wellbeing economy: Understanding heterodox economics for health‐in‐all‐policies and co‐benefits

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Health Promotion Journal of Australia

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Long COVID in Australia: achieving equitable access to supportive health care

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Medical Journal of Australia

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Climate change, health and sustainable healthcare: The role of health economics

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Health Economics

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Challenges for Medicare and universal health care in Australia since 2000

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Medical Journal of Australia

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Use of General Practitioner Telehealth Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Regional Victoria, Australia: Retrospective Analysis

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Journal of Medical Internet Research

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Under‐ and Postgraduate Education in Health Economics for Australia's Medical Practitioners: Time for Change?

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Australian Economic Review

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COVID ‐19 vaccines, boosters and mandates: building a mission economy, not a rentier paradise

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Medical Journal of Australia

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Utilisation of general practitioner telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic in regional Victoria, Australia (Preprint)

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Obesity and Bariatric Surgery in Australia: Future Projection of Supply and Demand, and Costs

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Obesity Surgery

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Socioecological System Transformation: Lessons from COVID-19

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World

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Socioecological System Transformation: Lessons from COVID-19

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World

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Health care and the future of economic growth: exploring alternative perspectives

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Health Economics, Policy and Law

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Incorporating environmental impacts into the economic evaluation of health care systems: Perspectives from ecological economics

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Resources, Conservation and Recycling

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Open knowledge commons versus privatized gain in a fractured information ecology: lessons from COVID-19 for the future of sustainability

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Global Sustainability

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Rates and reasons for emergency department presentations of patients wait-listed for public bariatric surgery in Tasmania, Australia

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Obesity Research and Clinical Practice

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Population estimates and characteristics of Australians potentially eligible for bariatric surgery: Findings from the 2011-13 Australian Health Survey

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Australian Health Review

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A qualitative investigation of the health economic impacts of bariatric surgery for obesity and implications for improved practice in health economics

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Health Economics (United Kingdom)

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“Too much medicine”: Insights and explanations from economic theory and research

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Social Science & Medicine

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Population estimates and characteristics of Australians potentially eligible for bariatric surgery: findings from the 2011?13 Australian Health Survey

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Australian Health Review

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“Too much medicine”: Insights and explanations from economic theory and research

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Social Science and Medicine

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What are the support experiences and needs of patients who have received bariatric surgery?

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Health Expectations

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Acute Care Hospitals

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International Encyclopedia of Public Health

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Motivations for Seeking Bariatric Surgery: The Importance of Health Professionals and Social Networks

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Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care

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Acute Care Hospitals

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International Encyclopedia of Public Health

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Diverse approaches to the health economic evaluation of bariatric surgery: a comprehensive systematic review

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Obesity Reviews

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Review of Publicly-Funded Bariatric Surgery Policy in Australia—Lessons for More Comprehensive Policy Making

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Obesity Surgery

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The support needs of patients waiting for publicly funded bariatric surgery – implications for health service planners

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Clinical Obesity

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Motivations for seeking bariatric surgery: the importance of health professionals and social networks

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Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care

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Emergency and pre-surgical band deflation in patients with laparascopic adjustable gastric bands: variations in practice

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Australia and New Zealand Journal of Surgery

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Review of Publicly-Funded Bariatric Surgery Policy in Australia—Lessons for More Comprehensive Policy Making

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Obesity Surgery

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What are the support experiences and needs of patients who have received bariatric surgery?

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Health Expectations

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Emergency and pre-surgical band deflation in patients with laparoscopic adjustable gastric bands: Variations in practice

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ANZ Journal of Surgery

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Publicly funded bariatric surgery in Australia: what guidance is provided by the States and Territories?

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Obesity Research and Clinical Practice

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Threat posed by antimicrobial resistance must not be underestimated

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Oil, health, and healthcare: Problem of centralisation

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BMJ (Online)

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Quality metrics

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Acute care hospitals

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Trusts look to the future to fight historic debts.

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Referral Hospitals

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The cost of home-based terminal care for people with AIDS in South Africa

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Lessons for health strategies in Europe: The evaluation of a national health strategy in England

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Financing blood transfusion services in sub-Saharan Africa: A role for user fees?

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Conceptual and practical difficulties with the economic evaluation of health services developments

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Regulations to the medical schemes act -part n prescribed minimum benefits

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The hospital of the future: International trends in the provision and utilisation of hospital care

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Better out than in? Alternatives to acute hospital care

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BMJ

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Hospital provision, activity, and productivity in England since the 1980s

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BMJ

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The influence of health needs assessment on health care decision-making in London health authorities

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Managing demand for secondary care services: The changing context

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BMJ

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Improving general practitioner access to physiotherapy: A review of the economic evidence

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The impact of economic transition on kindergartens in Kazahstan

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Compare

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Does hospital-at-home make economic sense? Early discharge versus standard care for orthopaedic patients

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Emergency admissions. Driving range.

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