Biography
Tom Van Ourti is a professor of applied health economics with a focus on health and inequality. His research focuses on understanding the socio-economic health gradient, with specific interest in impact evaluation, preventive care, mental health, perinatal health, measurement theory of health inequalities, and the elicitation of social preferences for income and health. He has published in journals including the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Health Economics, and the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation. He teaches applied econometrics and health economics, and organizes a yearly PhD summer school on inequalities in health and health care. He obtained his PhD from the University of Antwerp and has held visiting positions at the university of Melbourne, and the George Washington University.
Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management
Full professor | Health Economics (HE)
- vanourti@eshpm.eur.nl
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Work
- B. Y. Gravesteijn, N. Boderie, T. van den Akker, L. C.M. Bertens, K. Bloemenkamp, L. Burgos Ochoa, A. de Jonge, B. M. Kazemier, P. P. Klein, I. Kwint-Reijnders, J. A. Labrecque, B. W. Mol, S. A. Obermann-Borst, L. Peters, A. C.J. Ravelli, A. Schonewille-Rosman, J. Been, C. J. de Groot, E. Ambrosino, K. V. Auweele, R. Beijers, L. C.M. Bertens, N. Boderie, L. Burdorf, L. Burgos Ochoa, C. de Weerth, A. Franx, S. Harper, P. P. Klein, D. Kretz, J. Muris, M. Nieuwenhuijze, S. A. Obermann-Borst, M. Oudijk, L. Ramerman, A. Ravelli, A. Schonewille-Rosman, J. Struijs, H. Torij, M. Van Beukering, M. van den Heuvel, J. van Dillen, F. van Lenthe, T. Van Ourti, A. Verhoeff, M. Vermeulen, N. Visser, S. Willers, S. Schoenmakers & Z. Zainularab (2024) - Effect of COVID-19 lockdown on maternity care and maternal outcome in the Netherlands: a national quasi-experimental study - Public Health, 235, 15-25 - doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2024.06.024 - [link]
- Matthew Robson, Owen O'Donnell & Tom Van Ourti (2024) - Aversion to health inequality — Pure, income-related and income-caused - Journal of Health Economics, 94 - doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2024.102856 - [link]
- Francisca Vargas Lopes, Bastian Ravesteijn, Tom Van Ourti & Carlos Riumallo-Herl (2023) - Income inequalities beyond access to mental health care: a Dutch nationwide record-linkage cohort study of baseline disease severity, treatment intensity, and mental health outcomes - The Lancet Psychiatry, 10 (8), 588-597 - doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(23)00155-4 - [link]
- Kirsten I.M. Rohde, Tom Van Ourti & Amar Soebhag (2023) - Reducing socioeconomic health inequalities?: A questionnaire study of majorization and invariance conditions - Journal of Health Economics, 90 - doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102773 - [link]
- Callum Brindley, Tom Van Ourti, Joseph Capuno, Aleli Kraft, Jenny Kudymowa & Owen O’Donnell (2023) - Risk factor contributions to socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular risk in the Philippines: a cross-sectional study of nationally representative survey data - BMC Public Health, 23 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-15517-x - [link]
- Francisca Vargas Lopes, Pieter Bakx, Sam Harper, Bastian Ravesteijn & Tom Van Ourti (2022) - The effects of supported housing for individuals with mental disorders - Health Economics (United Kingdom), 31 (S2), 115-133 - doi: 10.1002/hec.4579 - [link]
- Joaquim Vidiella-Martin, Jasper V. Been, Eddy Van Doorslaer, Pilar García-Gómez & Tom Van Ourti (2022) - Association between Income and Perinatal Mortality in the Netherlands Across Gestational Age - Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey, 77 (5), 259-261 - doi: 10.1097/01.ogx.0000831496.30198.f3 - [link]
- Francisca Vargas Lopes, Carlos J. Riumallo Herl, Johan P. Mackenbach & Tom Van Ourti (2022) - Patient cost-sharing, mental health care and inequalities: A population-based natural experiment at the transition to adulthood - Social Science and Medicine, 296 - doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114741 - [link]
- Joaquim Vidiella-Martin, Jasper V. Been, Eddy Van Doorslaer, Pilar García-Gómez & Tom Van Ourti (2021) - Association between Income and Perinatal Mortality in the Netherlands across Gestational Age - JAMA network open, 4 (11), e2132124 - doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.32124 - [link]
- Lizbeth Burgos Ochoa, Loes CM Bertens, Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Tom Van Ourti, Eric AP Steegers & Jasper V. Been (2021) - Association of neighbourhood socioeconomic trajectories with preterm birth and small-for-gestational-age in the Netherlands: a nationwide population-based study - The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 10 - doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2021.100205 - [link]
- Hannes Schwandt, Janet Currie, M (Marlies) Bar, James Banks, Paola Bertoli, Aline Bütikofer, Sarah Cattan, Beatrice Zong-Ying Chao, Claudia Costa, Libertad Gonzalez, Veronica Grembi, Kristiina Huttunen, René Karadakic, Lucy Kraftman, Sonya Krutikova, Stefano Lombardi, Peter Redler, CJ (Carlos) Riumallo Herl, Ana Rodríguez-González, Kjell Salvanes, Paula Santana, Josselin Thuilliez, EKA (Eddy) van Doorslaer, TGM (Tom) Van Ourti, Joachim Winter, B (Bram) Wouterse & Amelie Wupperman (2021) - Inequality in Mortality between Black and White Americans by Age, Place, and Cause, and in Comparison to Europe, 1990-2018 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118 (40) - doi: 10.1073/pnas.2104684118 - [link]
- Marlies Bar, Bram Wouterse, Carlos Riumallo Herl, Tom van Ourti & Eddy van Doorslaer (2021) - Diverging Mortality Inequality Trends among Young and Old in the Netherlands - Fiscal Studies (London), 42 (1), 79-101 - doi: 10.1111/1475-5890.12260 - [link]
- Owen O'Donnell & Tom Van Ourti (2020) - Dominance analysis
- Tom Van Ourti, Owen O'Donnell, H Koc, Jacques Fracheboud & Harry de Koning (2020) - Effect of screening mammography on breast cancer mortality: Quasi-experimental evidence from rollout of the Dutch population-based program with 17-year follow-up of a cohort - International Journal of Cancer, 146 (8) - doi: 10.1002/ijc.32584 - [link]
- N Bouckaert, Anne Gielen & Tom Van Ourti (2020) - It runs in the family – influenza vaccination and spillover effects - Journal of Health Economics, 74 - doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2020.102386 - [link]
- L.C.M. Bertens, Lizbeth Burgos Ochoa, Tom Van Ourti, Eric Steegers & Jasper Been (2020) - Persisting inequalities in birth outcomes related to neighbourhood deprivation - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 74 (3), 232-239 - doi: 10.1136/jech-2019-213162 - [link]
- Owen O'Donnell & Tom Van Ourti (2020) - Rank-dependent equity weights
- Max Coveney, Pilar Garcia Gomez, Eddy van Doorslaer & Tom Van Ourti (2020) - Thanks goodness for stickiness. Unravelling the evolution of income-related health inequalities before and after the Great recession in Europe - Journal of Health Economics, 70 - doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.102259 - [link]
- Tom Van Ourti & N Bouckaert (2020) - The Dutch influenza vaccination policy and medication use, outpatient visits, hospitalization, and mortality at age 65. - European Journal of Public Health, 30 (2), 275-280 - doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckaa016
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