Hengjin Dong

Area of specialization: Health Policy, Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment

Health policy, Health economic evaluation, Markov modeling, costing, pharmacoeconomics, health financing, willingness to pay, health technology assessment and survey design and analysis.

Karolinska Institute,Stockholm,Sweden

Supervisors: Prof. Vinod Diwan

The theme is on health financing systems and drug use in rural China. The aim was to study the association between health-care financing systems and health-care consumers’ drug use and health providers’ prescribing in six Chinese counties. A multistage sampling procedure was used in this cross-sectional study, health providers and patients were interviewed. We found that insured patients have significantly higher average medical (drug) costs per visit, and better access to expensive drugs and treatment such as hospitalization than uninsured. Health providers’ prescribing are influenced by patients’ insurance status and financial abilities, bonus payment mechanism, and market factors. The fee-for-service-based insurance leads to a higher growth of health care cost; to a shift from preventive to curative medicine and to a higher level of tertiary curative care cost. It also induces a higher per capita consumption of drugs.

University of Leeds, Leeds, England

Content: Health Management, Planning and Policy, Economics, Health Financing, Evaluation of Programs, Operational research.

Shanghai Medical University, Shanghai, China

Content: Economics, Statistics, English and Social Medicine

Thesis: Cost-effectiveness analysis of family planning programs in two counties.

Supervisor: Prof. Xingyuan Gu

Shanghai Medical University, Shanghai, China

Xi'An Medical University, WHO English Training CenterXi’An, China

University of Oxford, Oxford, England

Advanced modeling methods for health economic evaluation (27-29 Sept. 2004)

University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England

Probabilistic sensitivity analysis in cost effectiveness modeling: part I: uncertainty on model inputs (24-25 Nov. 2004)

Brunel University, London, England

Principles of project management (14-15 March 2005)

ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY, Hangzhou, China

Professor, Center for Health Policy Studies at Medical School (July 2009--)

The main tasks are supervising Master and PhD students, doing research work in the areas of health policy, health economics and technology assessment independently, and providing teaching in health policy, health economics and health technology for undergraduate and Master students.

Health policy, Health economics, Healthcare financing, Pharmacoeconomics, Health technology assessment

HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY, Heidelberg,Germany

The main tasks as the leader are supervising two PhD students, doing research work in the areas of health economics and technology assessment independently, and providing teaching in health economics and health technology for medical students and participants of Master of Science in international health.

1.Health technology assessment (2 hours) for medical student (Heicumed) on 10 March 2008.

2.Health care financing (2 hours) for medical student (Heicumed) on 11 March 2008.

3.German Healthcare reform (2 hours) for medical student (Heicumed) on 11 March 2008.

4.Health technology assessment (2 hours) for medical student (Heicumed) on 11 Feb. 2008.

5.Health care financing (2 hours) for medical student (Heicumed) on 12 Feb. 2008.

6.German Healthcare reform (2 hours) for medical student (Heicumed) on 12 Feb. 2008.

7.Introduction to health financing: basic concepts (4 hours) for MSc International Health on 17 Dec. 2007.

8.Introduction to health financing: case studies (4 hours) for MSc International Health on 18 Dec. 2007.

9.Introduction to economic evaluation: costing (4 hours) for MSc International Health on 18 Dec. 2007.

10.Health technology assessment (2 hours) for medical student (Heicumed) on 27 Nov. 2007.

11.Health care financing (2 hours) for medical student (Heicumed) on 26 Nov. 2007.

12.Health technology assessment (2 hours) for medical student (Heicumed) on 13 March. 2007.

13.Health technology assessment (2 hours) for medical student (Heicumed) on 6 Feb. 2007.

14.Health technology assessment (2 hours) for medical student (Heicumed) on 9 January 2007.

1.Financing health care ---- principles of insurance (May, each year).

2.Health technology assessment and economic evaluation (November, each year)

2.Hans-Christian Stahl. Economic evaluation of a novel therapeutic approach to the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Kabul, Afghanistan Dr. sc. Hum (2008-)

3.Gbangou, Adjima. Burkina Faso Demographer Dr. sc. Hum (2003-)

1.Dr. Than Bil Luai, The impact of CBI on health seeking pathway in Burkina Faso (2007-2008, MSc in International Health).

2.Gray Maghanga, Knowledge on insurance in Kenya (2007-2008, MSc in International Health).

3.Shafiu Mohmmed, Knowledge on new insurance scheme in Nigeria (2007-2008, MSc in International Health).

4.Gundula Epp-Graack, Cost analysis for CBI in Burkina Faso (2007-2008, MSc in International Health).

5.Biswajit Panda, Output-based Aid in Health: A Feasibility Study in West Bengal, India (2006-2007, MSc in International Health).

1.Member of the editorial board of PharmacoEconomics.

BRUNEL UNIVERSITY, London, United Kingdom

HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY, Heidelberg,Germany

The theme was on control of tropical infectious diseases. Research on community-based health insurance (CBI) as a strategy to enhance the utilization of disease control measures. In the project, I was responsible for the research on the introduction and implementation of CBI in Burkina Faso. CBI has been widely viewed as one of the technologies in health care to improve the utilization of health services in developing countries because it disassociates use from payment. This was in light of the negative effects of user-fees and lack of feasibility for social insurance. In this process, preference for a benefit package was elicited. The benefit package was then developed and people’s willingness to pay elicited (see Dong et al, 2003a; Dong et al, 2003b; Mugisha et al, 2002; Dong et al, 2004a; Dong et al, 2004b). I was also responsible for time preference study in Burkina Faso.

Teaching:

Health planning and management at MSc Community Health and Health Management in Developing Countries Course 2001/2002, (Module 4a & 4b, 6 March -19 April 2002)

1. National Health account, 6 hours (1 day), Monday, March 11, 2002.

2. Health care market(s), public/private mix in health care provision, cost analysis, cost effectiveness, cost-efficiency, 6 hours (1 day), Tuesday, March 12, 2002.

Health planning and management at MSc Community Health and Health Management in Developing Countries Course 2002/2003, (Module 3, 7 Jan. -7 March 2003)

1. Health-care financing, 3 hours (0.5 day), Wednesday, January 8, 2003.

2. National health account, 2 hours (0.5 day), Thursday, January 9, 2003.

3. Cost analysis, 3 hours (0.5 day), Thursday, January 9, 2003.

Essentials of Health Economics at MSc Community Health and Health Management in Developing Countries Course 2003/2004, (Module 3, 26 Jan. -30 Jan. 2004)

1. Health-care financing, 1.5 hours, Tuesday, January 27, 2004.

2. Economic evaluation models, 1.5 hours, Wednesday, January 28, 2004.

3. Economic evaluation case studies, 1.5 hours, Thursday, January 29, 2004.

4. Presentation case studies, 1.5 hours, Thursday, January 29, 2004.

Postgraduate Program Master in Health Economics in collaboration with the National Economics University of Hanoi and University of Heidelberg, Dep. of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health (2002/2003)

1. Health accounts, capital and recurrent expenditures, different types of economic costs. Techniques of calculating unit and marginal cost (Module 4), 90 hours (3 weeks, 29 April – 17 May 2002).

2. Principles of economic evaluation, measuring outcomes and costs, study designs, cost-effectiveness, cost-utility, cost-benefit analysis (Module 5), 90 hours (3 weeks, 20 May – 7 June 2002).

1. Vu Thuy Phuong, Cost-effectiveness analysis and evaluation between active tuberculosis diagnosis and passive tuberculosis diagnosis (2002-2003, Master in Health Economics).

2. Hoang Kim Ha, District Hospital cost analysis (2002-2003, Master in Health Economics).

3. James Eyul, User satisfaction with different payment schemes: user fees and CHF/ Tanzania (2002-2003, MSc Community Health & Health Management).

SHANGHAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITYShanghai, China

Supervising: master and PhD students. Hengjin Dong was appointed as PhD supervisor in 2000.

Shanghai Development Strategy Research ----- Health Strategy Research (funded by Shanghai government, researcher). As a researcher I was responsible for the sub-study on the effects of ‘one child’ bonus policy (see Dong et al, 1987a).

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Family Planning Programs in China (funded by Ministry of Health, master student). As a master student I designed this research, collected the data and did the data analysis. Based on the results I wrote my master dissertation (see Dong et al, 1988a; Dong et al, 1988c; Dong et al, 1987b; Dong et al, 1987c; Dong et al, 1987d; Dong et al, 1987e; Dong et al, 1987g; Dong et al, 1986a; Dong et al, 1986b; Dong et al, 1990a; Dong et al, 1990b; Dong et al, 1989c; Dong et al, 1987h).

Chinese consultant for World Bank Health Project IV (1993-1998).