News
Publication
WHO WILL BE THE MEDIATOR? LOCAL POLITICS AND HOSPITAL CLOSURES IN GERMANY
Ieva Sriubaite
Ruhr Economic Papers #897
Publication
UNDERSTANDING THE INFLUENCE OF INDIVIDUAL AND SYSTEMIC FACTORS ON VACCINATION TAKE-UP IN EUROPEAN CITIZENS AGED 55 OR OLDER
Olympia E. Anastasiou & Dörte Heger
Vaccines 2021, 9(2), 169
Research
Challenges in Health Care
Leibniz Science Campus Ruhr is a research collaboration focused on “Health care challenges in regions with declining and ageing populations”. Its aim is to analyse the causes and consequences of regional differences in health care, to derive policies to address the impending under-provision of health care and to evaluate selected measures to improve the efficiency of health-care provision.
The projects of the first funding period (2016 - 2020) can be accessed here.
Research Area
Regional Variation
Health care supply and demand display large regional variation. LSCR studies the reasons for this variation and considers the consequences for health policy. This research area consists of the following five projects.
Research Area
Sustainable Supply
Demographic trends will result in a reduction of qualified health-care personnel. We analyse how this development will affect health care provision in order to develop solutions that ensure access to ambulatory care in rural areas.
Research Area
Nursing care for an ageing population
The proportion of elderly people is steadily increasing. Ensuring adequate nursing care is a major social challenge. We address the effects of informal care on labor force participation, the effects of staffing arrangements on the quality of care in nursing homes, and the causes and consequences of loneliness among elderly people.
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Salm, M. und A. Wübker (2020), Sources of regional variation in healthcare utilization in Germany. Journal of Health Economics 69 (2020): 102271
Discussion Papers
Korfhage, T. (2019), Long-Run Consequences of Informal Elderly Care and Implications of Public Long-Term Care Insurance. Ruhr Economic Papers #813. RUB, RWI.
Events
About us
Leibniz Science Campus Ruhr is a research collaboration focused on “Health care challenges in regions with declining and ageing populations”. Its aim is to analyse the causes and consequences of regional differences in health care, to derive policies to address the impending under-provision of health care and to evaluate selected measures to improve the efficiency of health-care provision.
LSCR focuses on the three research areas: Regional Variation, Sustainable Supply, Prevention.
Please find further information here.
Partners
LSCR combines the health economic expertise of the RWI – Leibniz Institute of Economic Research, the University of Duisburg-Essen, Tilburg University, the University of Paderborn and the Vienna University of Economics and Business and creates the first research community to focus on health care in demographically declining regions in Germany. It is funded by the Leibniz Association and exhibits a collaboration with the statutory health insurance provider TK.
