Michel Grignon
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Michel Grignon, who was named director of CHEPA on Sept. 1, 2011, is an associate professor in the Department of Economics and the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University. He is also an adjunct scientist at the Institute for Health Economics in Paris, France. Before joining McMaster in July 2004, he worked at the Institut de Recherche, d’Etudes et de Documentation en Economie de la Santé (IRDES) in Paris. He was born in France, and obtained his Master’s Equivalent at the National School for Statistics and Economics in Paris, and his PhD at Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, also in Paris. Grignon has extensive experience at an international level in research projects and activities in the areas of health economics, health-related policies, health insurance and aging. His current research projects cover a broad range of topics, including how an aging society impacts health care expenditures in Canada and in France. He is also involved in research examining inequities in health care utilization and health policy in Canada, as well as exploring equity and efficiency by using experimental economic methods for financing health care.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- financing and funding of health care and health insurance
- the impact of aging on health care usage and expenditures
- economics of health and health care and its distribution in populations
- determinants and patterns of health care consumption and delivery of health care
- econometric analysis of the impact of taxes on tobacco consumption in France
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Allin S, Grignon M, Le Grand J. Subjective Unmet Need and Utilization of Health Care services in Canada: What are the Equity Implications? Social Science and Medicine. Forthcoming.
Grignon M. An empirical investigation of heterogeneity in time preferences and smoking behaviours, Journal of Socio-Economics, 2009; 38: 739-751.
Grignon, M. Pourquoi les systèmes de santé sont ils organisés différemment? Revue Economique, 2009; 60(2): 545-558.
Grignon M. Le système de santé au Canada, Revue Française des Affaires Sociales, October-December 2008; 62(4) : 67-87.
Jusot F, Grignon M, Dourgnon P. Access to psycho-social resources and health: exploratory findings from a survey of the French population. Health Economics Policy and Law, 2008; 3: 365-391.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
- health economics and its application to health policy
- population economics
- economics of aging
- research methods in gerontology
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