We are convinced that health economic research must be empirically sound and interdisciplinarily oriented in order to generate evidence-based findings relevant to everyday health care:

On the one hand, the increased availability of primary and secondary data requires great empirical methodological competence. On the other hand, it is only possible to analyse the multi-layered impact paths of health care-related measures through the interaction of different disciplines.

In both areas, we pursue the goal of contributing our expertise to innovative projects in health services research.

Health economic research, especially health economic evaluation, requires the availability of appropriate data to estimate costs and benefits. To address research questions, we use a wide range of relevant data sources and survey instruments, which we combine for different questions (almost like a puzzle).

Data access established in the division for health economic health services research: