Health Economics and management
Presentation of unit
The health economics and management unit carries out research, provides education and provides social services in connection with a wide range of subjects at the crossroads between health care and economics. The vision is that a high-performance and high-quality health (care) system, in which every citizen receives excellent care for the protection and improvement of his/her health and well-being and is also given the opportunity to work on it himself, contributes to a healthy society. The means to achieve this are limited, and this requires well-founded choices and ethical considerations. Our mission is focused on research with great social relevance, and to communicate the results intensively to the public domain.
Health economics • Cost-effectiveness and Health Technology Assessment • Organisation and Financing • Healthcare Management • Healthcare Governance
HECOM Team: Contact
Academic staff
Jeroen Trybou (head of unit)
Guest professor
Postdoctoral researchers
PhD students
List of most important projects
- Perspectieven op een lang en gelukkig leven. Rapport Maart 2024: Hoe gelukkig is de Belgische bevolking 4 jaar na het begin van de pandemie? (NN-UGent Nationaal Geluksonderzoek) - PDF
- Reimbursement-Linked Incentives for the Development of the Medical Industry - PDF
- Advancing Equity in Medicine Access: The Case for a Pan-European Solidarity-Based Reimbursement Model (PANSOL) - PDF
- Towards a future-proof health system in Belgium - PDF
- Position paper on the challenges with the joint clinical assessment (JCA) - PDF
- A sustainable financing model for the telemonitoring of patients with cardiac implanted electronic devices.
- Better4You (Horizon Europe)
- Corporate Wellbeing in Practice
- Mental health promotion: definition, vision setting and policy priorities
- DigiCare4You (Horizon Europe)
- FEBRIS: Flemish joint Effort for Biomarker pRofiling in Inflammatory Systemic diseases (FWO-TBM)
- Experience of empowerment and client-centered care in cash-for-care schemes
- IDECA
- iMens hybrid care path
- Leerstoel NN-UGent: nationaal geluksonderzoek / National Happiness Study
- CHW Compass (FWO-SBO)
- Measuring the health and economic impact of skin cancer to optimalize skin cancer care
- Ontwikkeling van een vragenlijst voor het bevragen van de ervaringen van gebruikers betrokken in de pilootfase RTH
- PrevenD 2.0: Implementation of gamified cognitive control training to prevent recurrence of depression (FWO-TBM)
- PRIORITY: Personalized remotely guided preventive exercise therapy for a healthy heart (FWO-TBM)
- SMILE: cost-utility and impact of high-intensity speech therapy on Speech, MotIvation, and quality of LifE in children with cleft palate (FWO-TBM)
- SUBOD
- Staff turnover in the healthcare and welfare sector
More information about the projects
Other Sites
HECOM unit collaborates with the health economic unit of Vrije Universiteit Brussel: https://icher.research.vub.be/nl