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Pekka Heino.

Pekka Heino

Senior Researcher, Research Unit
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Presentation

I am a senior researcher at Kela’s Research Unit. In particular, my research areas include research on registers of medicinal products and medicine simulation as well as, more broadly, register-based research on sickness benefits.

Expertise

  • sickness allowances
  • disability pensions
  • reimbursements for medical expenses
  • register-based research on sickness benefits
  • health and welfare inequalities

Ongoing research projects

Previous research projects

Web applications

Publications

Publications and research projects

Analysing the Effects of Healthcare Payment Policies on Poverty: A Microsimulation Study With Real-World Healthcare Data

We present a method for examining how health payment policies and tax-benefit policies affect household income in conjunction to evaluate the total effect of implemented and planned policies.

The Development of Prices for Medicines

The aim of the project is to form indices describing the development of the prices of medicines and to assess their usability in monitoring changes in the prices of medicines.

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