Newcastle University

Introduction

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

Undergraduate Teaching

Econometrics (ECO3008), Statistics for Economists (ECO1007/1008), Introductory Economics (ECO1017), Applied Economics (ECO2096), Current Economics Issues (ECO2097)

• Donaldson C, Baker R, Bateman I, Jones-Lee M, Lancsar E, Loomes G, Mason H, Odejar M, Prades JLP, Robinson A, Ryan M, Shackley P, Smith R, Sugden R, Wildman J. Weighting and valuing quality adjusted life years: preliminary results from the social value of a QALY project. The SVQ Research Team, 2008.
• Baker R, Bateman I, Donaldson C, Jones-Lee M, Lancsar E, Loomes G, Mason H, Odejar M, Prades JLP, Robinson A, Ryan M, Shackley P, Smith R, Sugden R, Wildman J, SVQ Res Team. Weighting and valuing quality-adjusted life-years using stated preference methods: preliminary results from the Social Value of a QALY Project. Health Technology Assessment 2010, 14(27), 1-162.
• Lancsar E, Wildman J, Donaldson C, Ryan M, Baker B. Deriving distributional weights for QALYs through discrete choice experiments. Journal of Health Economics 2011, 30(2), 466-478.
• Donaldson C, Baker R, Mason H, Jones-Lee M, Lancsar E, Wildman J, Bateman I, Loomes G, Robinson A, Sugden R, Prades JLP, Ryan M, Shackley P, Smith R. The social value of a QALY: raising the bar or barring the raise?. BMC Health Services Research 2011, 11(1), 8.
• Morris S, Sutton M, Dixion P, Wildman J, Birch S, Raine R, Chandola T, Orr S, Jit M, Wolff J, Atkinson S, Marmot M. Research on the health inequalities elements of theNHS weighted capitation formula. London, UK: Department of Health, 2010. Department of Health RARP36 122620.
• Wildman J, Hollingsworth B. Blood donation and the nature of altruism. Journal of Health Economics 2009, 28(2), 492-503.
• Jones AM, Wildman J. Health, income and relative deprivation: Evidence from the BHPS. Journal of Health Economics 2008, 27(2), 308-324.
• Contoyannis P, Wildman J. Using relative distributions to investigate the body mass index in England and Canada. Health Economics 2007, 16(9), 929-944.
• Richardson J, Wildman J, Robertson IK. A critique of the World Health Organisation's evaluation of health system performance. Health Economics 2003,12 5 355-366.
• Wildman J. Income related inequalities in mental health in Great Britain: Analysing the causes of health inequality over time. Journal of Health Economics 2003,22 2 295-312.
• Wildman J. Modelling health, income and income inequality: The impact of income inequality on health and health inequality. Journal of Health Economics 2003,22 4 521-538.
• Gravelle H, Wildman J, Sutton M. Income, income inequality and health: what can we learn from aggregate data?. Social Science & Medicine 2002, 54(4), 577-589.
• Baker R, Chilton S, Donaldson C, Jones-Lee M, Lancsar E, Mason H, Metcalf H, Pennington M, Wildman J. Searchers vs surveyors in estimating the monetary value of a QALY: resolving a nasty dilemma for NICE. Health Economics, Policy and Law 2011, 6(4), 435-447.
• Mann KD, Brown MC, Wildman JR, Parker L, Pearce MS. Standardized Birth Weight Predicts Psychological Well-Being Age 49-51 Years in the Newcastle Thousand Families Study. In: Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: 7th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. 2011, Portland, Oregon, USA: Cambridge University Press.