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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What is a Wellbeing Economy, and what might its impact be on population health?
The Lancet Public Health
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Financial penalty associated with a decline in hospital-acquired complications in Australia
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
Journal of Applied Gerontology
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Degrowth
book-chapter
Characteristics, care and support needs of older Victorians requiring a government‐funded Home Care Package: An observational study
Australasian Journal on Ageing
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The economic burden of long COVID in Australia: more noise than signal?
Medical Journal of Australia
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Evaluating progress and accountability for achieving COP26 Health Programme international ambitions for sustainable, low-carbon, resilient health-care systems
The Lancet Planetary Health
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Perspectives on telehealth implementation in Australia: An exploratory qualitative study with practice managers and general practitioners
International Journal of Medical Informatics
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Health Economics in a World of Uneconomic Growth
Applied Health Economics and Health Policy
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The rise of private equity investment in Australian health care
Medical Journal of Australia
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Exploring opportunities to reduce scope 3 emissions in renewably powered health services
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
Health Promotion Journal of Australia
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Health technology assessment and healthcare environmental sustainability: Prioritizing effort and maximizing impact
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care
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Challenges for Medicare and universal health care in Australia since 2000
Medical Journal of Australia
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Under‐ and Postgraduate Education in Health Economics for Australia's Medical Practitioners: Time for Change?
Australian Economic Review
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The economics of the wellbeing economy: Understanding heterodox economics for health‐in‐all‐policies and co‐benefits
Health Promotion Journal of Australia
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Long COVID in Australia: achieving equitable access to supportive health care
Medical Journal of Australia
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Climate change, health and sustainable healthcare: The role of health economics
Health Economics
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Use of General Practitioner Telehealth Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Regional Victoria, Australia: Retrospective Analysis
Journal of Medical Internet Research
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Obesity and Bariatric Surgery in Australia: Future Projection of Supply and Demand, and Costs
Obesity Surgery
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COVID ‐19 vaccines, boosters and mandates: building a mission economy, not a rentier paradise
Medical Journal of Australia
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Utilisation of general practitioner telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic in regional Victoria, Australia (Preprint)
preprint
Socioecological System Transformation: Lessons from COVID-19
World
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Socioecological System Transformation: Lessons from COVID-19
World
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Health care and the future of economic growth: exploring alternative perspectives
Health Economics, Policy and Law
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Incorporating environmental impacts into the economic evaluation of health care systems: Perspectives from ecological economics
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
Global Sustainability
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Rates and reasons for emergency department presentations of patients wait-listed for public bariatric surgery in Tasmania, Australia
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
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
Health Economics (United Kingdom)
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Population estimates and characteristics of Australians potentially eligible for bariatric surgery: findings from the 2011?13 Australian Health Survey
Australian Health Review
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“Too much medicine”: Insights and explanations from economic theory and research
Social Science & Medicine
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“Too much medicine”: Insights and explanations from economic theory and research
Social Science and Medicine
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Acute Care Hospitals
International Encyclopedia of Public Health
other
What are the support experiences and needs of patients who have received bariatric surgery?
Health Expectations
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Motivations for seeking bariatric surgery: the importance of health professionals and social networks
Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care
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Motivations for Seeking Bariatric Surgery: The Importance of Health Professionals and Social Networks
Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care
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Acute Care Hospitals
International Encyclopedia of Public Health
book
Diverse approaches to the health economic evaluation of bariatric surgery: a comprehensive systematic review
Obesity Reviews
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Review of Publicly-Funded Bariatric Surgery Policy in Australia—Lessons for More Comprehensive Policy Making
Obesity Surgery
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The support needs of patients waiting for publicly funded bariatric surgery – implications for health service planners
Clinical Obesity
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What are the support experiences and needs of patients who have received bariatric surgery?
Health Expectations
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Review of Publicly-Funded Bariatric Surgery Policy in Australia—Lessons for More Comprehensive Policy Making
Obesity Surgery
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Emergency and pre-surgical band deflation in patients with laparascopic adjustable gastric bands: variations in practice
Australia and New Zealand Journal of Surgery
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Emergency and pre-surgical band deflation in patients with laparoscopic adjustable gastric bands: Variations in practice
ANZ Journal of Surgery
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Publicly funded bariatric surgery in Australia: what guidance is provided by the States and Territories?
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
BMJ (Online)
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Quality metrics
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Acute care hospitals
book
Trusts look to the future to fight historic debts.
journal-article
Referral Hospitals
book-chapter
The cost of home-based terminal care for people with AIDS in South Africa
journal-article
Conceptual and practical difficulties with the economic evaluation of health services developments
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Financing blood transfusion services in sub-Saharan Africa: A role for user fees?
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Lessons for health strategies in Europe: The evaluation of a national health strategy in England
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The influence of health needs assessment on health care decision-making in London health authorities
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Better out than in? Alternatives to acute hospital care
BMJ
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Hospital provision, activity, and productivity in England since the 1980s
BMJ
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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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Managing demand for secondary care services: The changing context
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
Compare
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Does hospital-at-home make economic sense? Early discharge versus standard care for orthopaedic patients