Viktoria Szenkurök
The Austrian National Public Health Institute
Viktoria Szenkurök
Viktoria Szenkurök has been working in the Department for Health Economics and Health Systems Analysis at The Austrian National Public Health Institute since April 2026. Prior to this, she worked, among other roles, as a university assistant in the Health Economics and Policy Group at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna), where she also completed her PhD, and was involved in a third-party funded project at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO).
Her research focuses on health economics, particularly the (socio-)economic determinants of health, long-term care, and ageing, as well as working conditions in the health and social care sector, with an emphasis on both national and international comparative analyses
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | Austria; Europe; |
|---|---|
| Topics | Access to care; Care inequalities; Gender and care; LTC Policy; LTC Workforce; Unmet needs; Unpaid / informal care; |
| Methods | Analysis of administrative data; Causal inference in Long-Term Care; Policy analysis; Quantitative data analysis; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Economics of Long-Term Care; Employment Education and Family carers; Long-Term Care Policy; Unmet need inequalities and care poverty (UNICAP); Workforce Capacity and Capability; Working Conditions and Wages in Long-Term Care; |
| X (Twitter) | https://twitter.com/vszenkuroek |
| Other 1 | https://www.wu.ac.at/hep/team/wissenschaftlerinnen/viktoria-szenkuroek/; |
| Key publications | Szenkurök, V. (2026). Cash-for-care and its impact on older adults’ informal and formal long-term care use: Evidence from continental European countries. European Journal of Health Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-026-01901-y Szenkurök, V., & Weber, D. (2026). Gender gap in unmet need for care in later life: The moderating role of social deprivation. Health & Social Care in the Community, 2026, 3358797. https://doi.org/10.1155/hsc/3358797 Famira-Mühlberger, U., Horvath, T., Leoni, T., Spielauer, M., Szenkurök, V., & Warum, P. (2025). Demographic change and the future of Austria’s long-term-care allowance: A dynamic microsimulation study. Healthcare, 13(23), 3175. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13233175 Arnhold, T., Szenkurök, V., & Weber, D. (2025). Mapping inequalities in the health of older adults around the world: Heterogeneities in cognitive and physical functioning. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research. https://doi.org/10.1553/p-mcm9-5b3b Szenkurök, V., Weber, D., & Bilger, M. (2025). Informal and formal long-term care utilization and unmet needs in Europe: Examining socioeconomic disparities and the role of social policies for older adults. International Journal of Health Economics and Management. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-024-09378-z Simmons, C., Szenkurök, V., Rodrigues, R. (2024). Care regimes in Europe: a dynamic view of typologies and evolving long-term care policies over time. In Handbook on the Political Economy of Social Policy (pp. 205–217). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781035306497/book-part-9781035306497-24.xml |