Profile

Biography

Adriana Castelli is a Research Fellow in the Health Policy Team at CHE, which she joined in 2004. She has an MSc and PhD in Economics both awarded by the University of York. Before joining the Health Policy team, Adriana was a Research Fellow (2002) at the Department of Economics, University of York, for the EU project 'Rationing of Medical Services: An Empirical Study'.

Her research interests include health policy reforms, performance measurement with a particular focus on the development of productivity measures of healthcare goods and services, and analysis of geographical/spatial variation in quality of life and health.

Curriculum vitae

• Adriana Castelli CV (PDF , 391kb)

Research

Overview

• Her research interests are in the area of decentralisation, health care and equity
• She is working on a major project funded by the Department of Health, designed to contribute to the understanding and measurement of NHS outputs and productivity

Research group(s)

• Health Policy Team

Publications

Selected publications

2012

• Bojke C, Castelli A, Goudie R, Street A, Ward P. Productivity of the English National Health Service 2003-4 to 2009-10. Centre for Health Economics, University of York; CHE Research Paper 76 (PDF , 847kb) 2012.
• Bojke C, Castelli A, Laudicella M, Street A, Ward P. Regional variation in the productivity of the English National Health Service. Health Economics 2012;DOI:10.1002/hec.2794. 

2011

• Castelli A, Laudicella M, Street A, Ward P. Getting out what we put in: productivity of the English NHS. Health Economics, Policy and Law 2011;6:313-335. Download from Cambridge Journals ©Cambridge Journals.

• Castelli A, Nizalova O. Avoidable mortality: what it means and how it is measured. Centre for Health Economics, University of York; CHE Research Paper 63 (PDF , 1,149kb), 2011.

2010

• Bojke C, Castelli A, Laudicella M, Street A, Ward P. Regional variation in the productivity of the English National Health Service. Centre for Health Economics, University of York; CHE Research Paper 57 (PDF , 581kb), 2010.

2009

• Castelli A, Jacobs R, Goddard M. Exploring the impact of public services on quality of life indicators: Public Services Programme: Quality, Performance & Delivery, Discussion Paper DP0902 2009.
• Castelli A, Jacobs R, Goddard M, Smith P. Geographical variation in quality of life: the role of public service organisations. Policy  Briefing, Centre for Health Economics, University of York; 2009. Geographical variation in quality of life (PDF , 252kb)
• Castelli A, Jacobs R, Goddard M, Smith PC. Exploring the impact of public services on quality of life indicators. Centre for Health Economics, University of York; CHE Research Paper 46 (PDF , 1,618kb) , 2009.
• Castelli A, Laudicella M, Street A, Ward P. Getting out what we put in: how productive is the NHS in England? Paper presented at the Health Economic Study Group Meeting. Sheffield 22-24 July 2009. Getting out what we put in (PDF , 224kb).
• Jacobs R, Castelli A, Goddard M, Smith PC. Impact of Public Services on Quality of Life Indicators? . LariaNews, LARIA Newsletter, Local Authorities Research Intelligence Association 2009.

2008

• Castelli A, Laudicella M, Street A. Measuring NHS output growth. Centre for Health Economics, University of York; CHE Research Paper 44 (PDF , 368kb), 2008.

2007

• Castelli A, Dawson D, Gravelle H, Jacobs R, Kind P, Loveridge P, Street A, et al. A new approach to measuring health system output growth and productivity. National Institute Economic Review. 2007; 200 (April):105-117. Download from Sage Journals online 
• Castelli A, Dawson D, Gravelle H, Street A. Improving the measurement of health system output growth. Health Economics. 2007;16(10):1091-107.

2006

• Castelli A, Dawson D, Gravelle H, Street A. Knowing the cost of everything, the value of nothing? Challenges in measuring NHS output growth. Paper presented at the 2nd British-French CES-HESG meeting on health economics, City University London January 2006. Knowing the cost of everything (PDF , 277kb)
• Castelli A, Smith P. Circulatory disease in the NHS: Measuring trends in hospital costs and output. Centre for Health Economics, University of York; CHE Research Paper 21 (PDF , 604kb), 2006. 
• Street A, Castelli A, Dawson D, Gravelle H. Retos en le medición y valoración de los rendimientos del sistema de salud [Challenges in measuring and valuing health service output]. Revista Española de Economía de la Salud, 2006;5(6)335-360.

2005

• Dawson D, Gravelle H, O'Mahony M, Street A, Weale M, Castelli A, Jacobs R, Kind P, Loveridge P, Martin S, Stevens P and Stokes L. Developing new approaches to measuring NHS outputs and productivity. Centre for Health Economics, University of York; CHE Research Paper 6 (PDF , 1,306kb) , 2005.

Teaching

Other teaching

Distance learning programme

• The Postgraduate Diploma in Health Economics for Health Care Professionals, Module tutor for Module 'Basic Economic Concepts'

External activities

Memberships

• International Health Economics Association
  Member

• Health Economist’s Study Group
  Member

• Health Econometrics Data Group (HEDG)
  Affiliate

Referee work

• The Journal of Health Economics
• Health Economics
• Bulletin of Economic Research

Invited talks and conferences

• Castelli A. Exploring the concept of "avoidable mortality" as a quality indicator for hospital output: the case of circulatory diseases in England, iHEA 8th World Congress on Health Economics, Toronto, July 2011.
• Castelli A, Laudicella M, Street A, Ward P. Getting out what we put in: how productive is the NHS in England?. Paper presented at the 75th Health Economists’ Study Group Meeting, University of Sheffield, 22-24 July 2009.
• Castelli A, Jacobs R, Goddard M, Smith PC. Can public service organisations influence quality of life? Paper presented at Health Economics Resource Group, Brunel University, June 2009.
• Castelli A, Jacobs R, Goddard M, Smith PC. Can public service organisations influence quality of life? Paper presented at the ‘Multivariate Methods and Models for Evaluating Public Services’ Conference in Rimini, Università di Bologna, 25-26 May 2009.
• Castelli A, Jacobs R, Goddard M, Smith PC. Exploring the impact of public services on quality of life indicators: the case of health. Paper presented at the 2nd Joint British HESG and Nordic HESG conference, University of Aberdeen, 27-29 August 2008.
• Castelli, A, Jacobs R, Goddard M, Smith PC. Exploring the impact of public services on quality of life indicators: the case of health. Paper presented at the 7th European Conference on Health Economics, Università Tor Vergata, Rome (Italy), 23-26 July 2008.
• Castelli A, Smith PC. Circulatory disease in the NHS: measuring trends in hospital costs and outputs. Paper presented at the 72nd Health Economists’s Study Group, University of East Anglia, January 2008.
• Castelli A. A new approach to measuring NHS output and productivity. Paper presented at the 6th European Conference on Health Economics, Corvinus University, Budapest (Hungary), 6-9 July 2006.
• Castelli A. Discussion of Or, Z and D. Polton. Is decentralization good for your health? Evidence from industrialized countries. 2nd British-French CES-HESG meeting on health economics, City University London, 4-6 January 2006.
• Castelli A, Dawson D, Gravelle H, Street A. Knowing the cost of everything, the value of nothing? Challenges in measuring NHS output growth. Paper presented at the 2nd British-French CES-HESG meeting on health economics, City University London, 4-6 January 2006.
• Castelli A. Equity in the delivery of health care in Great Britain: the impact of decentralization. Paper presented at the International Health Economics Association conference, Barcelona, 10-13 July 2005.
• Castelli A, Dawson D, Gravelle H, Street A. Knowing the cost of everything, the value of nothing? Challenges in measuring NHS output growth. Poster presentation at the International Health Economics Association conference, Barcelona, 10-13 July 2005.
• Castelli A. Decentralization and equity in health care delivery. Paper presented at York Seminars in Health Econometrics, University of York, March 2005.
• Castelli A. Rationing health care in Europe – views from the United Kingdom, empirical survey. Paper presented at the Department of Economics, Università di Bologna (Italy). January 2004.