Pandemic breakfast #1
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Ingeborg Forthun is a researcher at the Department of Disease Burden at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. She holds a PhD in epidemiology and work, among other things, with monitoring overall mortality in the population. Title of the presentation: Excess Mortality in the Nordic Countries During the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Oddvar Kaarbøe is a health economist and professor. He holds a joint professorship in health economics at both the Department of Economics and the Department of Global Health and Primary Care at the University of Bergen. The global health sector produces 4.4 to 5.2 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, slightly more than the aviation industry. For the hospital sector, a significant portion of carbon emissions is linked to the transportation of patients to and from hospitals. Some of these emissions could be avoided by replacing parts of hospital treatment with home treatment via telemedicine.
He will discuss his research, where they analyze a regulatory model for hospital competition in which hospitals can invest in telemedicine equipment and then compete in quality for patients. They characterize the equilibrium in this game and provide implications for how authorities should regulate hospitals to ensure they invest in telemedicine.
Date: January 23, 2025
Time: 08.30-09.15
Format: Hybrid
Place: Alrek, Årstadveien 17, 2nd Floor (Tarlebø) or online
Language: Norwegian
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