- Global Business School for Health, University College London (UCL), London, UK
Simon Combes is a lecturer in Health Economics at Global Business School for Health at University College London (UCL). He holds a PhD degree in Health Economics (2013) from the University of Aberdeen and a master from the National School of Statistics and Information Analysis in Statistics.
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How multidisciplinary teams matter in public health expertise: A case study on the 2023 French infectious disease prioritization exercise
ObjectivesInfectious disease prioritization exercises have been part of national and international health surveillance. They typically use multi-criteria approaches and generally involve expert groups composed of physicians and public health specialists from various disciplines. However, little is known about the impact of multidisciplinarity composition itself.Study designThis paper builds on the 2023 infectious disease prioritization exercise conducted...
The Social Cost of Efficiency-Seeking Plans in OECD Health Systems
Is the quest for efficiency harmful to health equity? An examination of the health efficiency-equity nexus in OECD countries over the past two decades
BackgroundHas the quest for efficiency in OECD health systems impacted the social gradient of health? We examined the cross-dynamics of the health system equity-efficiency nexus among OECD countries in the past two decades.MethodsWe used a three-step methodology based on annual macro-level data from 36 OECD countries for the period 2004-2021. First, we estimated the efficiency...
GPs’ willingness to delegate tasks: may financial incentives balance risk aversion?
2025. GPs’ willingness to delegate tasks: may financial incentives balance risk aversion? Journal de gestion et d'économie de la santé, 2025/1 N 1, p. 43-64. DOI: 10.54695/jdds. 043.1. 0043. URL: https://shs. cairn. info/revue-journal-de-gestion-et-deconomie-de-la-sante-2025-1-page-43? lang= en.
Activists and volunteers organising amid constraints: the key role of time
Purpose This article emphasises the role of constraints when humans establish organisations. Previous research explains organisations because of individuals’ motivations. Here, I answer the question regarding the role of constraints in organising/organisations. In this article, the studied individuals face various constraints and want to avoid being targeted. Consequently, they establish horizontal organisations. I discuss the...
CBA is failing us: Terminal Value in CBA
In this Research we propose an alternative to the usual Cost-Benefit Analysis by using the Financial technique to value a company: Terminal Value.
Balancing Different Goals: How An NGO Struggles to ‘Implement’Empowerment
NGOs claim they are against the State. However, this is challenged in the literature. Here, we attempt to show that the micro activity of an NGOs is torn between two views about the NGO. On one side, the view that the NGO has some production that is quantified, time limited, bounded in terms of activities....
Public Decision Making in a World of Multiple Growth Paths
This article questions the elephant in the room of Cost-Benefit Analysis: the costs. From the 1970s onward, most, if not all, the research has focused on the measurement of benefits, this led to different techniques used to allocate resources. To try to respond to this issue we use a macroeconomic framework to propose a new...
Are immigrants living in France more reluctant to receive vaccines than native-born French citizens? findings from the national health Barometer study
BackgroundFrance is one of the world's most vaccine hesitant countries and vaccine hesitancy (VH) is considered one of the world's leading threats to global health. However, little is known about VH in immigrant populations in France. Using data from the 2016 Health Barometer, we examined VH among newcomers, more established immigrants, and the native-born population...
Beyond budget constraints, a new constraint measure based on resources, with an application to Health Technology Assessment
In Health Technology Assessment (HTA), commonly used techniques apply piecewise comparisons of two or more alternatives, comparing costs and outcomes associated with each treatment. According to the definition by Robbins, who considers economics the study of ‘alternative uses’ of resources (Robbins, 1984, 1932), HTA can be considered a branch of health economics. However, we argue...