Research Area
Patient Demand & Alignment
Understanding patient behavior, preferences, and economic factors that drive healthcare utilization and outcomes.
Overview
Understanding how patients make healthcare decisions—and how providers and systems can better align with patient needs—is fundamental to improving health outcomes. Our research applies behavioral economics and empirical methods to study healthcare demand and the design of effective incentive systems.
Key areas of investigation include:
- Patient decision-making: How patients weigh quality, cost, convenience, and other factors when choosing providers and treatments
- Provider incentives: Designing payment systems that align provider behavior with patient outcomes
- Value-based care: Evaluating alternative payment models and their effects on quality and cost
- Information and choice: How information provision affects patient choices and market outcomes
Related Publications
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Adhikari, S. P., Meng, S., Wu, Yuju, Mao, Yu-Ping, Ye, R., Wang, Qingzhi, Sun, Chang, Sylvia, Sean Yuji, Rozelle, S., Raat, H., Zhou, Huan (2020)
Infectious Diseases of Poverty
DOI: 10.1186/s40249-020-00646-xViolence against health care workers in China, 2013–2016: evidence from the national judgment documents
Cai, Ruilie, Tang, Ji, Deng, Chenhui, Lv, Guofan, Xu, Xiaohe, Sylvia, Sean Yuji, Pan, Jay (2019)
Human Resources for Health
DOI: 10.1186/s12960-019-0440-yThe impact of pay-for-percentile incentive on low-achieving students in rural China
Chang, Fang, Wang, Huan, Qu, Yaqiong, Zheng, Qiang, Loyalka, P., Sylvia, Sean Yuji, Shi, Yaojiang, Dill, Sarah-Eve, Rozelle, S. (2020)
Economics of Education Review
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2020.101954Structural Determinants of Child Health in Rural China: The Challenge of Creating Health Equity
Chen, Yunwei, Sylvia, Sean Yuji, Dill, Sarah-Eve, Rozelle, S. (2022)
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192113845Effect of an mHealth-Supported Healthy Future Programme to Improve Type 2 Diabetes Management in Nairobi, Kenya: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial
Chen, Huanhuan, Ndegwa, Stephen, Kwaro, Daniel, Otieno, Walter, Oyugi, Elizabeth, Sylvia, Sean (2023)
The Lancet Global Health
Evaluation of a Village-Based Digital Health Kiosks Program: Evidence from Two Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trials
Cheng, Fei, Yip, Winnie, Zhu, Yue, Sylvia, Sean (2022)
Health Policy and Planning
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czac072Evaluation of a village-based digital health kiosks program: A protocol for a cluster randomized clinical trial
Cheng, Weibin, Zhang, Z., Hoelzer, Samantha, Tang, Weiming, Liang, Yizhi, Du, Yumeng, Xue, Hao, Zhou, Qiru, Yip, W., Ma, Xiaochen, Tian, Junzhang, Sylvia, Sean Yuji (2022)
Digital Health
DOI: 10.1177/20552076221129100Innovative Approaches of Measuring Care Quality in China's Market for Telemedicine
Cheng, Fei, Zeng, Tongxin, Sylvia, Sean, Chen, Xi (2024)
China Economic Review
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2024.102320Research Themes
Provider Payment
Studying how payment models—fee-for-service, capitation, bundled payments, P4P—affect provider behavior and patient outcomes.
Quality Measurement
Developing methods for measuring and reporting healthcare quality that are meaningful to patients and actionable for providers.
Patient Navigation
Understanding barriers patients face in navigating the healthcare system and designing interventions to improve access.
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We partner with health systems, payers, and policymakers to design and evaluate payment and delivery innovations.
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