Partner Session 01: Healthy Choices – Promoting Healthy Behaviour
Supported by the SVA - Austrian Social Insurance Authority for Business
Economists basically agree that encouraging a healthy lifestyle leads to a sustainable improvement of the population’s health, thus reducing healthcare costs. Healthcare policies should therefore motivate people to adopt a healthier way of life. Incentives and “nudges” are integral parts of an innovative way of changing people’s behaviour in the framework of solidarity systems without challenging the fundamentals of social security. We will discuss the question: “Do incentives improve the general state of health?” against the backdrop of a recent study on financial incentives.
Immediately after the session, the SVA, in cooperation with the TGKK, invites all participants of their partner session to a reception in the Otto-Molden-Foyer.
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Dr. Martin HALLA
Professor, Department of Public Finance, University of Innsbruck
| 2004-2007 | Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Linz |
| 2007-2008 | Visiting Scholar, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University |
| 2009-2009 | Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley |
| 2008-2012 | Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Linz |
| 2012-2013 | Visiting Full Professor, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna |
| 2013-2014 | Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Linz |
Mag. Peter McDONALD
Director of Strategy, Wirtschaftsbund Österreich; Executive Vice-President, SVA - Austrian Social Insurance Authority for Business, Vienna
| seit 2008 | Funktionär in der Sozialversicherung, Wien |
| seit 2009 | Direktor, Politische Abteilung, Österreichischer Wirtschaftsbund |
| Vorstand, Hauptverband, Wien | |
| seit 2011 | Geschäftsführender Obmann, Sozialversicherungsanstalt der Gewerblichen Wirtschaft, Wien |
Dr. Gerald PRUCKNER
Professor, Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz
| 1984-1989 | Study of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz |
| 1993 | Ph.D. in Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz |
| 1993-1994 | Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2001 | Habilitation (qualification as a university lecturer) in Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz |
| 2002-2006 | Professor, Department of Public Economics, Leopold Franzens University, Innsbruck |
| 2006-2010 | Associate Professor, Department Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz |
| since 2011 | Professor, Department of Economics; Head of the Health Economics Institute, Johannes Kepler University Linz |
Ph.D. Eddy VAN DOORSLAER
Professor of Health Economics, Department of Applied Economics, Institute of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam
| 1983-1990 | (Senior) Lecturer in Health Economics at the Department of Health Economics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Limburg, Maastricht |
| since 1990 | Professor of Health Economics, Dept of Health Policy and Management, and School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam |
Mag. Claudia DANNHAUSER
Moderator, ORF - Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, Vienna
| since 2011 | Editor for Domestic Policy for the Austrian newspaper "Die Presse", specialised in Health Policy |
| Journalist, ORF-Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, Zeit im Bild, Domestic Policy and European Union |
