RESEARCH GROUP "ECONOMIC EVALUATION":
Postal address:
Helmholtz Zentrum München
German Research Center for Environmental Health
Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management (IGM)
P.O. Box 1129
D-85758 Neuherberg
Germany
Tel.: +49-89 / 3187-3994
Fax: +49-89 / 3187-3375
email: l.schwarzkopf@helmholtz-muenchen.de
Larissa Schwarzkopf, health economist
Position:
Research Associate
Academic Background:
- Course of studies: Health Economics at Bayreuth University with Service Management and Controlling as areas of specialisation
Stations:
- Traineeship as Project Management Assistant at Epos Health India, Gurgaon
- Employee at Quality Management Division of Donau-Ries Kliniken und Seniorenheime gKU
(Communal hospital and nursing home network)
Main points of interest:
- Influences of comorbidity regarding health care utilisation and health care expenditures
- Economic evaluation of health care programmes based on administrative data
- Design of Health care systems targeted on sustainability as well as on distributive justice
- Implementation of Managed Care Tools in Germany’s Social Health Insurance
Current research projects:
- Health Care utilisation and health care expenditures of informal caregivers looking after dementia patients (Project IDA – Dementia Care Initiative in Primary Practice)
- Concept development to determine net costs of dementia in Middle Franconia using sickness fund data
Teaching:
Course "Health Economic Evaluation" as part of the Postgraduate Education Program "Public Health" at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Publications:
Schwarzkopf, L., Menn, P., Kunz, S., et al.: Costs of care for dementia patients in community setting: An analysis for mild and moderate disease stage. Value Health 14(6), 827-35 (2011)
