of risk adjustment helps to reduce the congestion of the welfare services and health care spending
XII BBVA Foundation Workshop: risk adjustment. Theoretical framework and practical applications
– taking into account factors such as the visits to the doctor and morbidities of the population, can foresee potential consumption that health services for this population.
-Professor of the Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health (ACERH), Dr. Francesco Paolucci, different models of risk adjustment, their history and their experiences has exhibited international.
-La DRA. Renata Hasanova Professor at the Crawford School of Economics and Government, meanwhile, has ensured that the Australian model can be adapted to the Basque health management model.
Bilbao, 2012-may The popular proverb says that prevention is better than cure ”. And in the health sector, with the current economic crisis, it is especially true. In this regard, and as a preamble of the XXXII Conference of health economics, the BBVA Foundation has held during this day his 22ND workshop entitled the adjustment of risk framework theoretical and practical applications ”. In it, the teachers Francesco Paolucci and Renata Hasanova, recognized researchers in this field, have exposed what is this model, usually employing the techniques of adjustment of predictive in their work of scientific research, as well as part of his teaching at the National University of Australia risks and models.
The National University of Australia teachers have explained in detail the development of applied in Australia risk adjustment models, and how its implementation has proved to be an effective method to allocate health resources efficiently in the southern country.
Adjust the risk, reduce spending
Risk adjustment models allow to predict the frequency and type of use given population of health services ”, says Manuel GarcÃa Goñi, Professor of applied economics at the Complutense University of Madrid. Taking into account factors such as consumption and morbidities of the population, you can establish the potential risk with this population in making use of health services. With these data, you can adjust the welfare services obtained forecasts, certainly allowing public health be more efficient and reduce spending ”, adds Professor economics.
Dr. Francesco Paolucci, Professor of Economics at the Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health (ACERH) of the Australian National University (ANU), explained the different models of risk adjustment, their history and their international experiences during his speech. It placed special emphasis on the basics of this technique and the experiments carried out by the various Australian public administrations, as well as the requirements that must be met for its adequate implementation. the use of the information collected to calculate the forecast of health expenses in a given period of time (monthly)(quarterly, annual, etc.) It is essential to improve the efficiency and equity of health policies and subsidies ”, assures Professor Paolucci.
Risk factors
How to measure the risk of the population? The DRA. Renata Hasanova, Professor at the Crawford School of Economics and Government, also of the ANU in Canberra, has explained the application of this model in the national system of health Australia, specifically those of the STATA statistical package, and exposed several examples, adapting them to the situation of public health Basque with data from the Basque country.
The DRA. Hasanova has exhibited a practical exercise in which has been studied the use of health services, taking into account different factors to take into account when establishing the risk. Individual information of the population, such as age, gender and disease burden, enables us to evaluate the risk of the population ”, the expert concludes.
On the AES
The Health Economics Association (AES) was formally constituted in 1985, although it had already developed activities, basically a few annual days since 1980. It was created for voluntarily to group all those professionals, whatever their origin, dedicated to the health economics or interested in it. The most common areas of specialization of the partners include: hospital management, health administration. Public health, economic evaluation and pharmacy.
On the BBVA Foundation
The BBVA Foundation is expression of the vocation of corporate social responsibility of the BBVA group and, in particular, its commitment to the improvement of societies in which business operates. Responsibility and commitment that have a long history of generation of public goods at the level of knowledge.
