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Megan Doheny

Karolinska Institutet


Megan Doheny

Is a public health scientist working as a post-doctoral researcher at Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutete. Her research area is health service research with a focus on ageing, elderly care, and equity. I’m involved in quantitative research projects using primarily population-based register data focused on the organisation of the Swedish healthcare systems for the older population. Specifically, involved in post-doctoral project which focused on the expenditure on health care and elderly care in the last year of life. I am from Ireland and have been living in Sweden for several years. My educational background consists of a B.A in Economics, a Master’s in Public Health and Epidemiology and she completed a PhD project in 2021, titled “Socio-economic differences in the healthcare utilisation of older persons in Sweden” at
the department of Global Public Health in Karolinska Institutet.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Countries Ireland; Sweden;
Topics Access to care; Ageing in place; Care economy; Care inequalities; Care trajectories; Community-based LTC; Economics of LTC; End-of-life care and LTC; Epidemiology and ageing trajectories; Evaluation of LTC systems and services; LTC Systems; LTC utitilisation; Outcome measurement in LTC; Person-centered care; Primary Health Care; Unmet needs;
Methods Analysis of administrative data; Cost analysis; Longitudinal data analysis; Observational studies; Panel data analysis; Projections; Quantitative data analysis; Quasi-experimental methods; Time series analysis;
Role Research;
Interest Groups Ageing and Place; Long-Term Care Policy; Quasi-experimental methods;
Websitehttps://ki.se/personer/https://ki.se/personer/megan-dohenymegan-doheny
Research interests

Health and social care service research, end-of-life care, inequalities in access, emergency care, integrated care and health and social care policy.

Key publications

Effectiveness of integrated person-centered interventions for older people’s care: Review of Swedish experiences and experts’ perspective
Kirvalidze M; Bostrom A-M; Liljas A; Doheny M; Hendry A; Mccormack B; Fratiglioni L; Ali S; Ebrahimi Z; Elmstahl S; Eriksdotter M; Glaske P; Gustafsson L-K; Rundgren AH; Hvitfeldt H; Lennartsson C; Hammar LM; Nilsson GH; Nilsson P; Ohlen J; Sandgren A; Soderman A; Swedberg K; Vackerberg N; Vetrano DL; Wijk H; Agerholm J; Calderon-Larranaga A
Article: BMC PUBLIC HEALTH. 2024;24(1):462

Differences in Covid-19 mortality among persons 70 years and older in an integrated care setting in region Stockholm: a multi-level analysis between March 2020-February 2021
Doheny M; de Leon AP; Burstrom B; Liljas A; Agerholm J Article: SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 2023;51(1):11-20

Socio-demographic differences in polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate drug use among older people with different care needs and in care settings in Stockholm, Sweden
Doheny M; Schon P; Orsini N; Fastbom J; Burstrom B; Agerholm J
Article: BMJ OPEN. 2022;12(7):e060981

Socioeconomic differences in inpatient care expenditure in the last year of life among older people: a retrospective population-based study in Stockholm County
Doheny M; Schon P; Orsini N; Walander A; Burstrom B; Agerholm J