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; |
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| 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; |
| Website | https://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 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 Socio-demographic differences in polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate drug use among older people with different care needs and in care settings in Stockholm, Sweden Socioeconomic differences in inpatient care expenditure in the last year of life among older people: a retrospective population-based study in Stockholm County |