Principal speaker
Dr Kim-Huong Nguyen
Menzies Health Institute Queensland
Optimising Health Outcomes Program
Dementia Awareness Month Event
Title
The economics of dementia
Abstract
Dementia is one of the biggest challenges for the health and social care systems. Care for people with dementia is costly and there is an important contribution by informal carers that mostly invisible as far as economic values go. Given the increasing demands on limited health and social care resources, achieving value-for-money is a key research priority. Although the global economic impact of dementia is enormous, the scientific base in terms of health economic studies of dementia interventions and programs is comparatively small. This presentation will highlight a few important economic aspects of dementia.
Biograph
Dr Kim-Huong Nguyen holds a Ph.D. in applied health economics from the School of Economics, the University of Queensland. She has experience in quantitative economics, with a strong emphasis on economic evaluation. Her eclectic research interests include: the economics of aging and dementia, particularly in interventions and care models that improve quality of life for people living with dementia and their caregivers. Other areas of interest and research experience include productivity and efficiency analysis, inequality, social determinants of health, health financing and resource allocation, valuation of health outcomes, and decision making under uncertainty and incomplete information.
She joined the Centre for Applied Health Economics in 2013 as a Research Fellow in Health Economics. She involves as a health economist supporting the NHMRC Centre for Cognitive and Related functional decline (CDPC). She has also worked as an evaluator for submissions to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) and Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC). Prior to joining Griffith University, Kim worked at the University of Queensland and led research projects involving analysing maternal and child health outcomes and service utilisation in five Asia Pacific countries under a research consortium funded by the AusAid and the Gates Foundation.
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September is Dementia Awareness Month
The purpose of Dementia Awareness Month is to encourage Australians to become dementia-aware, have a better understanding of what it is like for a person to live with dementia, and ultimately be encouraged to create communities where people with dementia are supported to live a high quality of life with meaning, purpose and value. The theme for 2017 is You are not alone and the main activities are a series of seminars with international and local dementia experts and key note speakers.
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