Mika
Kortelainen
Professor, Economics
InFLAMES Flagship
Professor, Research Professor (THL), Vice-head of Department of Economics
InFLAMES Flagship
Areas of expertise
Health economics
health care financing
effectiveness
cost-effectiveness
social and health care reform
Biography
Mika Kortelainen is a professor of health economics at the University of Turku and a research professor at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL). Previously, he has worked as a chief researcher at the VATT Institute for Economic Research and as a lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK. He is also a docent of economics at the University of Helsinki.
Teaching
Health economics, pharmaceutical markets, causal inference
Research
Mika Kortelainen's research fields include health economics, economics of education and applied microeconometrics. His ongoing research projects concern the effectiveness of information and digital technologies in healthcare and the impacts of the healthcare and pharmaceutical market reforms and interventions.
Publications
Does Abolishing a Copayment Increase Doctor Visits? A Comparative Case Study (2023)
BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Costs and duration of orthodontic-surgical treatment with mandibular advancement surgery (2023)
European Journal of Orthodontics
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Information technology, improved access and, use of prescription drugs (2023)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))Information Technology, Improved Access, and Use of Prescription Drugs (2023)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))Improving Performance Through Allocation and Competition: Evidence from a Patient Choice Reform (2023)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))Syövän vaikutukset puolison tuloihin ja työllisyyteen (2023)
Sosiaalilääketieteellinen Aikakauslehti
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Tohtoriksi terveystaloustieteestä Turussa – nyt se on mahdollista! (2022)
InFLAMES Flagship Blog
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))
Effects of Nurse Visit Copayments: Does the Primary Care Use of the Poor Respond More? (2022)
(O2 Muu julkaisu )Do Low-Income Households Respond More to Cost Sharing in Primary Care? Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Design (2022)
(O2 Muu julkaisu )Cost-effectiveness of whole-exome sequencing in progressive neurological disorders of children (2022)
European Journal of Paediatric Neurology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))