Javiera Cartagena-Farias
Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science
Javiera Cartagena-Farias
Javiera is an Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her research on long-term care focuses on geographical inequalities in care needs and the provision of local services.
She has worked on projects examining the association between housing conditions and the development of care needs, including the risk of falls. She has also explored the role of local services (such as public transport and the availability of public toilets) in supporting access to care. In addition, she has applied a systems-thinking approach to understand patterns of local care support for people with low and moderate care needs.
More recently, she has been investigating the integration of health and social care initiatives in England, including the role of co-located services.
Javiera uses quantitative methods, particularly quasi-experimental approaches for evaluation, and has a broader interest in spatial methods and systems-thinking frameworks.
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | United Kingdom; United Kingdom (England); |
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| Topics | Care inequalities; Care integration/ coordination; Community-based LTC; COVID-19 and other infectious diseases and LTC; Data catalogues; Economics of LTC; Ecosystems of care; Evaluation of LTC systems and services; Housing and care; Information and data systems in LTC; LTC Systems; New models of care; Unpaid / informal care; |
| Methods | Causal inference in Long-Term Care; Other; Quantitative data analysis; Quasi-experimental methods; Trials and other evaluations; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Ageing and Place; Care home markets and regulation; Data Science; Economics of Long-Term Care; Employment Education and Family carers; Long-Term Care in Spain; Long-Term Care Policy; Quasi-experimental methods; Unmet need inequalities and care poverty (UNICAP); |
| Website | https://www.lse.ac.uk/cpec/people/javiera-cartagena-farias |
| ORC.ID | 0000-0002-5984-0317 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/javiera-cartagena-farias-8b1522329/ | |
| Research interests | Research areas: Long-term care services delivery, Integration between health and social care services, Poverty & Deprivation, Geographical inequalities, Housing quality. Methods: Quasi-experimental methods, micro-econometrics techniques, manipulation and analysis of administrative records, and quantitative analysis. |
| Key publications | Cartagena-Farias, J., Brimblecombe, N., Hu, B., and Rickman, S. (2025) Fuel poverty and changes in long-term care needs among older people: Beyond energy consumption and affordability. Soc Indic Res 179, 1221–1240 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-025-03653-3 Cartagena-Farias, J., and Brimblecombe, N. (2025) Understanding the characteristics of unpaid carers living in financial hardship: Risks and vulnerabilities. International Journal of Care and Caring Special Edition: Care, Poverty and Inequalities, pp. 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1332/23978821Y2025D000000104 Cartagena-Farias, J., Brimblecombe, N., and Knapp, M. (2024) Evaluating the association between receipt of a winter fuel cash transfer and older people’s care needs, quality of life, and housing quality: Evidence from England. Social Science & Medicine. 355, 117128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117128 Cartagena-Farias, J., Brimblecombe, N. (2023) The economic cost of unpaid care to the public finances: Inequalities in welfare benefits, forgone earnings-related tax revenue, and health service utilisation. Social Policy and Society. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746423000477 Cartagena-Farias, J., Brimblecombe, N., & Hu, B. (2023) Early onset of care needs in the older population: The protective role of housing conditions. Health & Place. 81, 103007. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103007 Cartagena-Farias, J. & Brimblecombe, N., (2022) Understanding health trajectories among unpaid carers in the United Kingdom. Journal of Long-Term Care, pp.102-113. https://doi.org/10.31389/jltc.124 Brimblecombe N, Cartagena Farias J. Inequalities in unpaid carer’s health, employment status and social isolation (2022) Health Soc Care Community. Nov;30(6): e6564-e6576. Epub 2022 Nov 12. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.14104 Stevens, M., Cartagena Farias, J., Mindel, Ch., D’Amico, F., and Evans-Lacko, S., (2022) Pilot evaluation to assess the effectiveness of youth peer community support via the Kooth online mental wellbeing website. BMC Public Health 22, 1903. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14223-4 Hu, B., Cartagena Farias, J. & Brimblecombe, N. (2022) Functional disability and utilisation of long-term care in the older population in England: a dual trajectory analysis. Eur J Ageing 19, pp. 1363–1373. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-022-00723-0 Cartagena Farias, J. and Brimblecombe, N., (2022) Understanding health trajectories among unpaid carers in the United Kingdom. Journal of Long-Term Care, pp.102-113. https://doi.org/10.31389/jltc.124 Brimblecombe, N., Knapp, M., King, D. Stevens, M., and Cartagena Farias, J. (2020) The high cost of unpaid care by young people: health and economic impacts of providing unpaid care. BMC Public 20, 1115. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09166-7 |