Dr John Wildman
Reader in Health Economics
- Email: j.r.wildman@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)191 222 8645
John Wildman is a health economist based in Economics and the Institute of Health and Society at Newcastle. Previously he was at the Centre for Health Economics at Monash, Australia, where he currently holds an adjunct position. John recently completed a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in the area of health inequalities. He is currently involved in research weighting and valuing quality adjusted life years (QALYs). He has collaborators in York, Manchester, Canada and Australia.
Research Interests
Health Economics, health inequalities, valuation of a QALY, QALY weights
Other Expertise
Econometric applications in health
Selected Publications
- John Wildman and Bruce Hollingsworth. Blood donation and the nature of altruism. Journal of Health Economics 2009, forthcoming.
- Andrew M. Jones and John Wildman. Health, income and relative deprivation: Evidence from the BHPS. Journal of Health Economics 2008, 27(2), 308-324.
- Paul Contoyannis and John Wildman. Using relative distributions to investigate the body mass index in England and Canada. Health Economics 2007, 16(9), 929-944.
- Bruce Hollingsworth and John Wildman. What population factors influence the decision to donate blood?. Trasfusion Medicine 2004, 14, 9-12.
- Richardson, J, Wildman, J. and Robertson, I. A critique of the World Health Organisation's evaluation of health system performance. Health Economics 2003, 12(5), 355-366.
- Wildman, J, Gravelle, H. and Sutton, M. Health and income inequality: attempting to avoid the aggregation problem. Applied Economics 2003, 35(9), 999-1004.
Undergraduate Teaching
Econometrics (ECO3008), Statistics for Economists (ECO1007/1008), Introductory Economics (ECO1017), Applied Economics (ECO2096), Current Economics Issues (ECO2097)
