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A/Prof

Jongsay Yong

Principal Research Fellow
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Industrial organisation
Population health
social sciences
business & economics
economics
science & technology
life sciences & biomedicine
humans
health care sciences & services
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Jongsay Yong

 
Division
Business and Economics
 
Primary Interest
Health economics
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Projects

Displaying the 10 most recent projects by Jongsay Yong.

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Review of the DHHS Integrated Demand Forecasting Model

2021 - 2021
Active
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Readmissions risk adjustment model

2019 - 2020
Completed
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Risk adjustment in the measurement of health care provider performance

2016 - 2018
Completed
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Competition in medical labour markets

A sharp increase in the supply of medical practitioners has occurred in Australia. This is expensive and has uncertain effects on population..

2015 - 2019
Completed
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Value-based purchasing in Australia: Moving Forward

2014 - 2015
Completed
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Provision of an Evaluation of National Implementation of Activity Based Funding for In-Scope Public Hospital Services

2014 - 2015
Completed
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Update of the Clinical Placement Capacity Model project

2014 - 2014
Completed
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Analysis of factors influencing clinical placement capacity in health services

2012 - 2013
Completed
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The effect of competition and doctor heterogeneity on prices charged by doctors

Prices charged by doctors can have important effects on health care costs, access to health care and health status. This research will exami..

2011 - 2014
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MEASURING, ASSESSING AND EXPLAINING HOSPITAL PERFORMANCE

The performance of hospitals is an important issue for Australia. Increasingly, hospital performance is being managed using a number of poli..

2010 - 2015
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Project Types

14

Research Grant

7

Research Contracts

1

Internal Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Jongsay Yong.

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Does socioeconomic status affect hospital utilization and health outcomes of chronic disease patients?

Jongsay Yong, Ou Yang

Journal article  |  2021  |  The European Journal of Health Economics

This study quantifies the extent socioeconomic status (SES) affects hospital utilization and adverse hospital events of chronic di..

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Invasive Coronary Angiography after Chest Pain Presentations to Emergency Departments

Frank M Sanfilippo, Graham S Hillis, Jamie M Rankin, Donald Latchem, Carl J Schultz, Jongsay Yong, Ian W Li, Tom G Briffa

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

We investigated patients presenting to emergency departments (EDs) with chest pain to identify factors that influence the use of i..

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The falling growth in the use of private hospitals in Australia

Tianshu Bai, Susan Mendez, Anthony Scott, Jongsay Yong

Report  |  2020

Australia has a rich public-private mix of financing and provision of healthcare. Since mid-2015, the higher growth in out of pock..

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Private or Public? The declining growth in the use of private healthcare in Australia

Tianshu Bai, Susan Mendez, Anthony Scott, Jongsay Yong

Report  |  2020

The past five years has seen a steady decline in private health insurance (PHI) membership in Australia. With rising premium price..

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An Examination of Public Hospital Productivity and its Persistence: An Index Number Approach

CC Cheng, A Scott, V Sundararajan, W Yan, J Yong

Journal article  |  2020  |  Australian Economic Review

This paper measures the level and growth of total factor productivity (TFP) of public hospitals in Victoria, Australia, using an i..

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Should hospital funding be linked to socioeconomic status?

Jongsay Yong, Ou Yang

Report  |  2020

How does socioeconomic status impacts one's health and their access to healthcare? Using records from the Victorian Department of ..

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Nursing Home Competition, Prices and Quality: A Review and Some Lessons for Australia

Ou Yang, Jongsay Yong, Anthony Scott

Report  |  2020

In recent years, with the aim of containing cost pressure and improving efficiency, many countries have begun to introduce market ..

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Cream skimming: Theory and evidence from hospital transfers and capacity utilization

O Yang, MK Chan, TC Cheng, J Yong

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

The paper examines cream skimming behaviour by studying hospital transfers in a mixed public-private hospital system. A key innova..

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Does profit-motivated patient selection exist in Australia?

Ou Yang, Jongsay Yong

Report  |  2020

The proliferation of prospective payment arrangements, and more recently bundled payment models, has highlighted issues surroundin..

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Happiness and Longevity: Unhappy People Die Young, Otherwise Happiness Probably Makes No Difference

Bruce Headey, Jongsay Yong

Journal article  |  2019  |  Social Indicators Research

Based on analysis of long-running panel surveys in Germany and Australia, we offer a revised assessment of the relationship betwee..

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Applied Economics
Health and Support Services
Microeconomic Issues
Microeconomics
Public Health
Management and Productivity
Public Health and Health Services
Distributed Computing
Econometrics
Information Services

Credentials

Positions

Principal Research Fellow

Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of British Columbia

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