Owen O''Donnell

Datos Biográficos

ID1725355
NOMBREOwen O''Donnell
NOMBRESOwen
APELLIDOO''Donnell
FIRMADONNELL O O
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Macedonia
ORCID0000-0002-6289-1924
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS35
TOTAL DE CITAS153
TOTAL COMO AUTOR35
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2000
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H7

  • Coping (more or less) with health shocks

    Open AccessVishnu Prasad Sapkota, Owen O''DonnellARTICLEWorld Development2025Referencias: 2

  • Do social preferences explain health inequality aversion

    Open AccessMatthew Robson, Tara Doran et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Economic Inequality2025Referencias: 8

    Impartial-spectator experiments find strong average health inequality aversion with much variation that is unexplained. We examine whether social preferences over own and others’ health can partly explain this variation. We conduct an online experiment, with a UK general public sample (n=903), in which participants allocate resources to determine health of hypothetical individuals. Randomly induced equality-efficiency trade-offs identify particip…

  • Is hypertension screening effective in a low-resource setting? A multidimensional regression discontinuity design

    Fabrice Kämpfen, Owen O''Donnell et al.ARTICLEEconomic Development and Cultural…2025Referencias: 66

    Noncommunicable diseases impede development, yet evidence on screening in low-resource settings is scarce. We evaluate hypertension screening in rural South Africa using a multidimensional regression discontinuity: a survey measures blood pressure (BP) and refers individuals exceeding either of two thresholds. Overall, referral modestly raises treatment uptake but shows no average BP effect after 4 years. We use BP variation with time of day and …

  • Association of socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular disease risk with economic development across 57 low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessClaire Brindley, Tom Van Ourti et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2025Referencias: 42

    Economic development was associated with higher and more unequal CVD risk, which may warrant shifting targeting of CVD primary prevention to socially disadvantaged groups

  • Health and health system effects on poverty

    Open AccessOwen O''DonnellARTICLEHealth Policy2024

  • Ranking Age-at-Death Distributions Using Dominance

    Open AccessJawa Issa, Tom Van Ourti et al.ARTICLEDemography2024Referencias: 41

    Diverging mortality trends at different ages motivate the monitoring of lifespan inequality alongside life expectancy. Conclusions are ambiguous when life expectancy and lifespan inequality move in the same direction or when inequality measures display inconsistent trends. We propose using nonparametric dominance analysis to obtain a robust ranking of age-at-death distributions. Application to U.S. period life tables for 2006–2021 reveals that, u…

  • Healthcare inequity arising from unequal response to need in the older (45+ years) population of India

    Open AccessSanjay K Mohanty, Junaid Khan et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2024Referencias: 7

    Given the large and growing number of older (45+ years) people in India, inequitable access to healthcare in this population would slow global progress toward universal health coverage. We used a 2017-18 nationally representative sample of this population (n = 53,687) to estimate healthcare inequality and inequity by economic status. We used an extensive battery of indicators in nine health domains, plus age and sex, to adjust for need. We measur…

  • Public health insurance coverage in India before and after PM-JAY

    Open AccessSanjay K Mohanty, Ashish Kumar Upadhyay et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    INTRODUCTION: The provision of non-contributory public health insurance (NPHI) to marginalised populations is a critical step along the path to universal health coverage. We aimed to assess the extent to which Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY)-potentially, the world's largest NPHI programme-has succeeded in raising health insurance coverage of the poorest two-fifths of the population of India. METHODS: We used nationally r…

  • Distributionally sensitive measurement and valuation of population health

    Open AccessShaun Da Costa, Owen O''Donnell et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Economics2023

  • Optimizing cardiovascular disease risk screening in a low-resource setting

    Open AccessNilmini Wijemunige, Ravindra P Rannan-Eliya et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    In Sri Lanka, CVD risk screening scenarios that used the WHO-2019 office-based risk tool, screened people above the age of 40, and lowered risk and blood pressure thresholds would likely be cost-effective, generating an additional QALY at less than half a GDP per capita

  • Risk factor contributions to socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular risk in the Philippines

    Open AccessClaire Brindley, Tom Van Ourti et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Wealthier Filipinos have higher predicted CVD risks and greater exposure to all risk factors, except smoking. There is need for a nuanced approach to CVD prevention that targets anti-smoking programmes on the poorer population while targeting diet and exercise interventions on the wealthier

  • Selective exercise of discretion in disability insurance awards

    Open AccessPilar García-Gómez, Pierre Koning et al.ARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…2023Referencias: 2

    Variation in assessor stringency in awarding benefits leaves applicants exposed to uninsured risk that could be systematic if discretion were exercised selectively. Using administrative data on disability insurance (DI) applications in the Netherlands, we show that even in one of the most rule‐based DI programs, there is still between assessor variation in awards, and there is systematic variation in assessment across applicants. Discretion is ex…

  • Prevalence and inequality in persistent undiagnosed, untreated, and uncontrolled hypertension

    Open AccessCharlotte Dieteren, Owen O''Donnell et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2021

    Hypertension is the leading risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and substantial gaps in diagnosis, treatment and control signal failure to avert premature deaths. Our aim was to estimate the prevalence and assess the socioeconomic distribution of hypertension that remained undiagnosed, untreated, and uncontrolled for at least five years among older Mexicans and to estimate rates of transition from those states to diagnosis, treatment a…

  • Effectiveness of clinic-based cardiovascular disease prevention

    Open AccessJoseph Capuno, Joseph J Capuno et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2021Citada por: 1Referencias: 25

    Getting Filipinos to health clinics responsible for opportunistic CVD risk screening had a muted impact on exposure to CVD prevention and no significant impact on health behaviour and predicted CVD risk. Issuing well-founded protocols may be insufficient to ensure exposure to CVD prevention through routine clinic visits

  • What explains the fall in child stunting in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessLeander R Buisman, Ellen Van De Poel et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2019

    There have been steep falls in rates of child stunting in much of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using Demographic and Health Survey data, we document significant reductions in stunting in seven SSA countries in the period 2005-2014. For each country, we distinguish potential determinants that move in a direction consistent with having contributed to the reduction in stunting from those that do not. We then decompose the change in stunting and in prox…

  • What Explains Education Disparities in Screening Mammography in the United States? A Comparison with The Netherlands

    Open AccessHale Koç, Owen O''Donnell et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2018

    Background: In the U.S., less educated women are substantially less likely to receive screening mammography. It is not clear whether this is due to differences in access to screening or in perceptions of breast cancer risks and the effectiveness of screening. We weigh the plausibility of these two explanations by examining how the dependence of mammography on education changes after conditioning on indicators of access and perceptions. We also co…

  • Universal health coverage

    Open AccessSven Neelsen, Supon Limwattananon et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2018Citada por: 1Referencias: 4

  • Conindex

    Open AccessOwen O''Donnell, Owen O'Donnell et al.ARTICLEThe Stata Journal: Promoting…2016

    Concentration indices are frequently used to measure inequality in one variable over the distribution of another. Most commonly, they are applied to the measurement of socioeconomic-related inequality in health. We introduce the user-written command conindex, which provides point estimates and standard errors of a range of concentration indices. The command also graphs concentration curves (and Lorenz curves) and performs statistical inference fo…

  • Socioeconomic differences in health over the life cycle in an Egalitarian country

    Open AccessHans Van Kippersluis, Owen O''Donnell et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2010Citada por: 13Referencias: 31

  • Urbanization and the spread of diseases of affluence in China

    Open AccessEllen Van De Poel, Owen O''Donnell et al.ARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2009

  • What explains the rural-urban gap in infant mortality

    Open AccessEllen Van De Poel, Owen O''Donnell et al.ARTICLEDemography2009Citada por: 16Referencias: 45

    The rural-urban gap in infant mortality rates is explained by using a new decomposition method that permits identification of the contribution of unobserved heterogeneity at the household and the community level. Using Demographic and Health Survey data for six Francophone countries in Central and West sub-Saharan Africa, we find that differences in the distributions of factors that determine mortality-not differences in their effects-explain alm…

  • Who pays for health care in Asia?

    Open AccessOwen O''Donnell, Eddy Van Doorslaer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Economics2008

  • Differential health reporting by education level and its impact on the measurement of health inequalities among older Europeans

    Teresa Bago D’uva, Owen O''Donnell et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2008

    BACKGROUND: This study aims to establish whether health reporting differs by education level and, if so, to determine the extent to which this biases the measurement of health inequalities among older Europeans. METHODS: Data are from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) covering eight countries. Differential reporting of health by education is identified from ratings of anchoring vignettes that describe fixed health stat…

  • Coping with health‐care costs

    Open AccessGabriela Flores, G Floris et al.ARTICLEHealth Economics2008

    In the absence of formal health insurance, we argue that the strategies households adopt to finance health care have important implications for the measurement and interpretation of how health payments impact on consumption and poverty. Given data on source of finance, we propose to (a) approximate the relative impact of health payments on current consumption with a ‘coping’‐adjusted health expenditure ratio, (b) uncover poverty that is ‘hidden’ …

  • Does reporting heterogeneity bias the measurement of health disparities?

    Open AccessTeresa Bago D’uva, Teresa Bago d'Uva et al.ARTICLEHealth Economics2008

    Heterogeneity in reporting of health by socio‐economic and demographic characteristics potentially biases the measurement of health disparities. We use anchoring vignettes to identify socio‐demographic differences in the reporting of health in Indonesia, India and China. Homogeneous reporting by socio‐demographic group is rejected and correcting for reporting heterogeneity tends to reduce slightly estimated disparities in health by education (not…