Microsimulation as a flexible tool to evaluate policies and their impact on socioeconomic inequalities in health

• Daniel Kopasker,
• Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi,
• João Vasco Santos,
• Matteo Richiardi,
• Patryk Bronka,
• Mikael Rostila,
• Michele Cecchini,
• Shehzad Ali,
• Karl Emmert-Fees,
• Clare Bambra,
• Hanno Hoven,
• Insa Backhaus,
• Mirza Balaj,
• Terje Andreas Eikemo

Affiliations

Daniel Kopasker

MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, UK

Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi

MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, UK

João Vasco Santos

Public Health Unit, ACES Grande Porto V – Porto Ocidental, ARS Norte, Portugal; MEDCIDS – Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal; CINTESIS - Centre for Health Technology and Services Research, Portugal

Matteo Richiardi

Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis, University of Essex, UK

Patryk Bronka

Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis, University of Essex, UK

Mikael Rostila

Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden; Aging Research Center (ARC), Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Michele Cecchini

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, France

Shehzad Ali

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University, Canada; Department of Health Sciences, University of York, UK; WHO Collaborating Centre for Knowledge Translation and HTA in Health Equity, Canada

Karl Emmert-Fees

School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Germany; Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry, and Epidemiology, Pettenkofer School of Public Health, LMU Munich, Germany; Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany

Clare Bambra

Population Health Sciences Institute, University of Newcastle, UK

Hanno Hoven

Institute for Occupational and Maritime Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany; Centre for Global Health Inequalities Research (CHAIN), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway

Insa Backhaus

Centre for Global Health Inequalities Research (CHAIN), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway

Mirza Balaj

Centre for Global Health Inequalities Research (CHAIN), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway

Terje Andreas Eikemo

Centre for Global Health Inequalities Research (CHAIN), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway; Corresponding author.