Managerial Epidemiology

Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology

Our new journal, Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology, links 2 important and related fields of study. Health services research (HSR) is the study of cost, quality, and access in health care. Or, you could say it is the study of efficiency, effectiveness, and accessibility. Either way, HSR is a multidisciplinary field drawing from economics, clinical medicine, psychology, sociolo...

Managerial Epidemiology and Zoonoses: Application of Managerial Epidemiology in Control of Zoonotic Disease in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Managerial epidemiology is rather new subdiscipline of epidemiology defined by Fos and Fine (2005) as: the use of epidemiology for designing and managing the health care of populations—the study of distribution and determinants of health and disease, including injuries and accidents, in specified populations and the application of this study to the promotion of health, prevention, and control o...

Managerial Duties and Managerial Biases

We propose a novel approach to evaluating the empirical importance of individual managerial characteristics: We analyze different managerial positions (CEO and CFO) jointly and ask whether a managerial bias (overconfidence) matters for decisions under the control of the manager, but not for decisions outside the manager’s core duties. Using a new data set on CEO and CFO overconfidence, we show ...

Managerial epidemiology is the best evaluation tool for our new health care system.

Managerial Turnover

In an environment where managers’ability to generate pro…ts changes stochastically over time, we characterize the optimal turnover policy for a …rm hiring a succession of managers. The focus is on the interaction between the compensation scheme used to incentivize the managers’e¤ort and the retention policy used to screen the managers’types and induce the desired turnover. Our key positive resu...