Last update: February 2013
ASSPRO CEE 2007
Collaborative Focused Research Project
FP7-SSH-2007 Grant Agreement No.: 217431
Assessment of patient payment policies and projection of their efficiency, equity and quality effects:
The case of Central and Eastern Europe
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PARTICIPATION IN SEMINARS AND RESEARCH CONFERENCES
Willingness of the health care consumers to pay for health care services - results from a contingent valuation study
Petra Baji (presenter), Milena Pavlova, Lászlo Gulácsi, Wim Groot
ISPOR 15th Annual European Congress, November 2012, Berlin, Germany
Modeling the poverty effects of out-of-pocket payments for health care: The case of Serbia
Jelena Arsenijevic (presenter), Milena Pavlova, Wim Groot
International System Dynamics Conference, July 2012, St. Gallen, Switzerland
What impacts do out-of-pocket payments have on the use of preventive services and healthy behavior?
A systematic literature review.
Reza Rezayatmand (presenter), Milena Pavlova and Wim Groot
ECHE conference, July 2012, Zurich, Switzerland
Do patient payments constitute a barrier to use of health care service in CEE countries? Results from
six CEE countries
Marzena Tambor (presenter), Milena Pavlova, Stanislawa Golinowska, Christoph Sowada, Wim Groot
ECHE conference, July 2012, Zurich, Switzerland
Household expenditure on informal payments in the environment of increasing co-payments - evidence
from pooled cross sectional data from Hungary for 2005-2008
Petra Baji (presenter), Petra Baji, Milena Pavlova, László Gulácsi, Wim Groot
ECHE conference, July 2012, Zurich, Switzerland
Informal payments in Russian healthcare
Vladimir S. Gordeev (presenter), Milena Pavlova, Wim Groot
ECHE conference, July 2012, Zurich, Switzerland
Willingness and ability to pay for physician services in six Central and Eastern European countries
Andriy Danyliv (presenter), Milena Pavlova, Irena Gryga, Wim Groot
ECHE conference, July 2012, Zurich, Switzerland
Evidences on patient payments in Bulgaria, Hungary and Ukraine
Tetiana Stepurko (presenter), Milena Pavlova, Irena Gryga, Wim Groot
ECHE conference, July 2012, Zurich, Switzerland
Socioeconomic inequity in out-of-pocket payments for outpatient services in Bulgaria
Elka Atanasova (presenter), Emanuela Moutafova, Milena Pavlova, Todorka Kostadinova
ECHE conference, July 2012, Zurich, Switzerland
Cashing-out in-kind benefits: Impact of the reform on out-of-pocket expenditure on prescribed outpatient
pharmaceuticals in Russia
Vladimir S. Gordeev (presenter), Milena Pavlova, Wim Groot
ECHE conference, July 2012, Zurich, Switzerland
Romanian consumers’ perspective on medical services payments
Silvia Florescu (presenter), Constanta Mihaescu Pintia, Mihaela Galaon, Vasilica Constantinescu
EUPHA conference, June 2012, Malta
Patient payments for health care services
Petra Baji (presenter) and Lászlo Gulácsi
Seminar of The Hungarian Society of Political Science - Department of Public Policy, Eötvös Loránd University, December 2011, Budapest, Hungary
Informal payments for health care services in Central and Eastern European countries
Tetiana Stepurko (presenter), Milena Pavlova, Irena Gryga, Wim Groot
All-Ukrainian conference “Actual problems of social and humanitarian sciences”, Faculty of Social Sciences and International Relations of the Dnipropetrovsk National University named by Oles Gonchar, December 2011, Kiev, Ukraine
Patient preferences considering the choice of health care providers in Hungary - results from discrete choice experiment
Petra Baji (presenter), Milena Pavlova, Lászlo Gulácsi, Wim Groot
ISPOR 14th Annual European Congress, November 2011, Madrid, Spain
User fee and hospital revenues - the case of Bulgaria
Elka Atanasova (presenter), Emanuela Mutafova, Todorka Kostadinova, Milena Pavlova
37th World Hospital Congress, November 2011, Dubai
Comparing cost-sharing practices for health care services and pharmaceuticals among four Central European countries
Petra Baji (presenter), Milena Pavlova, Lászlo Gulácsi, Wim Groot
“Towards Healthcare Based on Knowledge and Scientific Results” Jubilee Scientific Session of Varna Medical University and the Faculty of
Public Health, October 2011, Varna, Bulgaria
Informal payments in CEE countries: an intermediate report, Fighting fraud in healthcare and social security: How to maximize resources?
Stanislawa Golinowska (presenter)
European Health Care Fraud and Corruption Network (EHFCN) Annual Conference 2011, October 2011, Cracow, Poland.
Is there a place for an increased reliance on patient charges in Central and Eastern European countries?
Milena Pavlova, Wim Groot, GG van Merode and Project Team (presented by Marzena Tambor)
“Towards Healthcare Based on Knowledge and Scientific Results” Jubilee Scientific Session of Varna Medical University and the Faculty of
Public Health, October 2011, Varna, Bulgaria
Household health care spending and health care reforms in Serbia
Jelena Arsenijevic (presenter), Milena Pavlova, Wim Groot
“Towards Healthcare Based on Knowledge and Scientific Results” Jubilee Scientific Session of Varna Medical University and the Faculty of
Public Health, October 2011, Varna, Bulgaria
Willingness of the Hungarian population for health care services - results from a representative survey
Petra Baji (presenter)
Miniconference Series 2011/5: Health Insurance in Europe - Trends and challenges; Hungarian Perspectives, Corvinus Corvinus Health Policy and Health Economics, Corvinus University of Budapest, September 2011, Budapest, Hungary
Willingness to pay for physician services: comparing estimates from a discrete choice experiment and contingent valuation
Andriy Danyliv (presenter), Milena Pavlova, Irena Gryga, Wim Groot
iHEA (International Health Economics Association), 8th World Congress, July 2011, Toronto, Canada
Monetization of natural benefits: a natural experiment using a difference-in-differences approach
Vladimir S. Gordeev (presenter), Milena Pavlova, Wim Groot
LoLa HESG congres, May 2011, Netherlands
Health care spending and poverty in Serbia
Jelena Arsenijevic (presenter), Milena Pavlova, Wim Groot
LoLa HESG congres, May 2011, Netherlands
Cost-sharing for health care services - the perspectives for Central European countries
Petra Baji (presenter) and Lászlo Gulácsi
European Health Policy Group Forum, Erasmus University, April 2011, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Modeling patient preferences - Results of a discrete choice experiment
Petra Baji (presenter)
Annual conference of the Economic Faculty of Corvinus University of Budapest,
Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem, April 2011, Budapest, Hungary
Willingness to pay for physician services at a primary contact in Ukraine: results of a contingent valuation study
Andriy Danyliv (presenter), Milena Pavlova, Irena Gryga, Wim Groot
'Economics, sociology, theory and practice of public health', April 2011, Kiev, Ukraine
Lithuanian survey findings
Liuba Murauskiene (presenter)
Workshop on Private Healthcare Sector and PPP development in Lithuania, March 2011, Vilnius, Lithuania
Patient payments in CEE countries
Wim Groot (presenter)
Conference organized by TARUS Media “Sustainable Financing of Health Care Systems”, March 2011, Bucharest, Romania.
Patient payments in Europe
Wim Groot (presenter)
Conference 4th 2011 Marketing in Health Care, March 2011, Kiev, Ukraine
Patient payments in Lithuanian
Liuba Murauskiene (presenter)
Discussion with MoH staff (Department of Economics), members of recently established Working Group on patient payments, February 2011, Vilnius, Lithuania
Public preferences for physician services in Ukraine: Results of a discrete choice experiment
Andriy Danyliv (presenter), Milena Pavlova, Irena Gryga, Wim Groot
'Shevchenkivska Vesna: Economics, 9th International scientific and practical conference of the students, aspirants and young researchers', February 2011, Kiev, Ukraine
Attitudes towards formal patient payments for public health care services in six CEE countries - Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Ukraine (the presentation won the second prize for an oral presentation)
Marzena Tambor (presenter), Milena Pavlova, Stanislawa Golinowska, Christoph Sowada, Wim Groot
ASPHER - YOUNG RESEARCHERS FORUM 2010, November, 2010. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Attitudes of Hungarian population towards co-payments
Petra Baji (presenter), Milena Pavlova, Lászlo Gulácsi, Wim Groot
ISPOR 13th Annual European Congress Health Technology Assessment - A European Collaboration, November 2010, Prague, Czech Republic.
Research techniques for studying public attitudes towards payments for health care services
Elka Atanasova (presenter), Emanuela Moutafova, Milena Pavlova, Todorka Kostadinova
UNSS-conference, September 2010, Ravda, Bulgaria.
Project session: Formal and informal patient payments: substitutes or complements?
Organizer: Wim Groot (chair) and Milena Pavlova
8th European Conference on Health Economics, July 2010, Helsinki, Finland
- Formal and informal patient payments in Europe.
Marzena Tambor (presenter), Milena Pavlova, Stanislawa Golinowska, Christoph Sowada, Wim Groot
- The scope and scale of informal patient payments in Europe.
Tetiana Stepurko (presenter), Milena Pavlova, Irena Gryga, Wim Groot
- Short-term effects of the introduction of official patient fees on the level of informal payments for health care services: The case of Hungary.
Petra Baji (presenter), Milena Pavlova, Lászlo Gulácsi, Wim Groot
- Paying informally in the Albanian health care sector: A two-tiered stochastic frontier model
Sonila Tomini (presenter), Wim Groot, Milena Pavlova
The effects of changes in the financing of the Russian public health care sector
Vladimir S. Gordeev (presenter), Milena Pavlova, Wim Groot
8th European Conference on Health Economics - Connecting Health and Economics, July 2010. Helsinki, Finland.
The effect of using non-linear utility function on the willingness-to-pay estimates in a DCE
Milena Pavlova (presenter), Wim Groot
8th European Conference on Health Economics - Connecting Health and Economics, July 2010. Helsinki, Finland.
The demand for physician services with formal and informal patient payments: a DCE in Ukraine
Andriy Danyliv (presenter), Milena Pavlova, Irena Gryga, Wim Groot
8th European Conference on Health Economics - Connecting Health and Economics, July 2010. Helsinki, Finland.
Patient payments in Bulgaria: source of additional financing or barriers to access
Elka Atanasova (presenter), Emanuela Moutafova, Milena Pavlova, Todorka Kostadinova
8th European Conference on Health Economics - Connecting Health and Economics, July 2010. Helsinki, Finland.
Patient cost-sharing for physicians’ and inpatient hospital services in the 27 EU member states
Marzena Tambor (presenter), Milena Pavlova, Piotr Woch, Wim Groot
8th European Conference on Health Economics - Connecting Health and Economics, July 2010. Helsinki, Finland.
Informal payment in health care and intra-household allocation of resources in Albania
Sonila Tomini (presenter), Wim Groot, Milena Pavlova
8th European Conference on Health Economics - Connecting Health and Economics, July 2010. Helsinki, Finland.
Informal patient payments in Ukrainian maternity hospitals
Tetiana Stepurko (presenter), Olena Levenets, Irena Gryga
8th European Conference on Health Economics - Connecting Health and Economics, July 2010. Helsinki, Finland.
Assessment of the needs in the better governance of patient payments in Lithuania
Murauskiene Liubove (presenter), Marija Veniute
8th European Conference on Health Economics - Connecting Health and Economics, July 2010. Helsinki, Finland.
Willingness of Bulgarian patients to pay for health care services in condition of crisis
Elka Atanasova (presenter), Emanuela Moutafova, Milena Pavlova
“Global crisis and economic development”, international conference organized by the University of Economics, May 2010, Varna, Bulgaria.
Patient payment in the Bulgarian health care system: the opinion of health care consumers, health care providers and
policy-makers
Emanuela Moutafova (presenter)
Workshop organized by the Ministry of Health and WHO “Reforming the health insurance system in Bulgaria”, May, 2010, Sofia, Bulgaria
Opinion of health care consumers, providers and policy makers on patient payments
Petra Baji (presenter), Lászlo Gulácsi
Conference of Faculty of Economics 2010 “Education in Crisis, Crisis in Education”, April 2010, Budapest, Hungary
Informal patient payments: specificity of research methods and instruments
Tetiana Stepurko, Milena Pavlova, Irena Gryga (presenter), Wim Groot
WAPOR 62nd Annual Conference - Public Opinion and Survey Research in a Changing World, September 2009, Lausanne, Switzerland.
How to design patient payment system to promote health equity and population health?
Marzena Tambor (presenter), Milena Pavlova, Wim Groot, Christoph Sowada and Stanislawa Golinowska
6th Nordic Health Promotion Research Conference - The Role of Health Promotion
in the Transition of the Nordic Welfare States, August 2009, Goteborg, Sweden
Paying informally in the health care sector: a two-tiered stochastic frontier model.
Sonila Tomini (presenter), Wim Groot and Milena Pavlova
7th World Congress on Health Economics - Harmonizing Health and Economics, July 2009, Beijing, China
Analysis of the financial reforms in the Russian health care sector
Vladimir S. Gordeev (presenter), Milena Pavlova and Wim Groot
7th World Congress on Health Economics - Harmonizing Health and Economics, July 2009, Beijing, China
