Economic impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from the EMIS COVID-19 Symptom Surveillance tool
This project is based on primary data from a COVID-19 Symptom Surveillance survey tool, developed by EMIS Health and Patient Access in collaboration with the Royal College of General Practitioner’s Research and Surveillance Centre and the University of Oxford.
The tool surveys people about their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic and, to date, has collected data from over 40,000 respondents. This study aims to:
- Develop a questionnaire relating the COVID-19 pandemic to health, well-being, health-related quality of life outcomes, and the utilisation of health and social care services.
- Analyse the survey data and estimate the economic consequences of the pandemic in terms of health care and social care costs, health-related quality of life, and work and productivity losses, amenable to cost-effectiveness based decision-making.
- Assess how the economic impacts of the pandemic vary by symptomatic status, stage of illness, socioeconomic status, sociodemographic characteristics, and lockdown phases.
- Establish pathways for the linkage of survey data with electronic health records for further analyses of the consequences of the pandemic on the health system.
Findings from the project will inform government departments, academic groups, and other decision-making bodies. The results will feed into decision-analytic models and health care and welfare reforms planning, supporting cost-effectiveness assessments of policy decisions.
Project lead:
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Stavros Petrou
Academic Research Lead in Health Economics
Collaborators:
Catia Nicodemo, University of Oxford
Caterina Alacevich, University of Oxford
Dates:
May 2020 - ongoing
Funder:
UKRI Higher Education Innovation Fund
Oxford ESRC Impact Acceleration Account
Our team
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Stavros Petrou
Academic Research Lead in Health Economics
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Lucy Abel
Health Economist, DPhil student
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Felix Achana
Senior Researcher in Health Economics
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Laura Armitage
Wellcome Trust Doctoral Research Fellow
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Corneliu Bolbocean
Senior Researcher in Health Economics
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Laia Bosque Mercader
Research Fellow in Health Economics
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Lin Bowker-Lonnecker
DPhil Student
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John Buckell
Researcher
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Padraig Dixon
Senior Researcher in Health Economics
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Patrick Fahr
Quantitative Researcher
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Carmen Fierro Martinez
NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellow
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Nadeem Hussein
NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellow
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Joseph Kwon
Researcher in Health Economics
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Sungwook Kim
Senior researcher in Health Economics
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Joan Madia
Researcher in Health Economics
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Joaquim Vidiella Martin
Researcher in Economics
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Catia Nicodemo
Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics
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Olu Onyimadu
Health Economist, DPhil Candidate
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May Png
Senior Researcher in Health Economics
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Stuart Redding
Project Lead, Centre for Health Service Economics & Organisation
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Elizabeth-Ann Schroeder
Senior Researcher in Health Economics
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Apostolos Tsiachristas
Associate Professor
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Raphael Wittenberg
Deputy Director, Centre for Health Service Economics and Organisation
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Yaling Yang
Senior Researcher in Health Economics