Biography
Tom Van Ourti is a professor of applied health economics with a focus on health and inequality. His research focuses on understanding the socio-economic health gradient, with specific interest in impact evaluation, preventive care, mental health, perinatal health, measurement theory of health inequalities, and the elicitation of social preferences for income and health. He has published in journals including the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Health Economics, and the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation. He teaches applied econometrics and health economics, and organizes a yearly PhD summer school on inequalities in health and health care. He obtained his PhD from the University of Antwerp and has held visiting positions at the university of Melbourne, and the George Washington University.
Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management
Full professor | Health Economics (HE)
- vanourti@eshpm.eur.nl
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Work
- Callum Brindley, Tom Van Ourti, Igna Bonfrer & Owen O'Donnell (2025) - Association of socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular disease risk with economic development across 57 low- and middle-income countries: Cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative individual-level data - Social Science and Medicine, 365 - doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117591 - [link]
- , B. Y. Gravesteijn, N. Boderie, T. van den Akker, Loes C.M. Bertens, K. Bloemenkamp, L. Burgos Ochoa, Ank de Jonge, B. M. Kazemier, P. P. Klein, Igna Kwint-Reijnders, J. A. Labrecque, B. W. Mol, S. A. Obermann-Borst, L. Peters, A. C.J. Ravelli, A. Schonewille-Rosman, J. Been, C. J. de Groot, E. Ambrosino, K. V. Auweele, R. Beijers, L. Burdorf, C. de Weerth, A. Franx, M. Nieuwenhuijze, L. Ramerman, A. Ravelli, A. Schonewille-Rosman, J. Struijs, H. Torij, M. Van Beukering, M. van den Heuvel, J. van Dillen, F. van Lenthe, T. Van Ourti, A. Verhoeff, M. Vermeulen, N. Visser, S. Willers, S. Schoenmakers & Z. Zainularab (2024) - Effect of COVID-19 lockdown on maternity care and maternal outcome in the Netherlands: a national quasi-experimental study - Public Health, 235, 15-25 - doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2024.06.024 - [link]
- Jawa Issa, Tom Van Ourti, Pieter van Baal & Owen O'Donnell (2024) - Ranking Age-at-Death Distributions Using Dominance: Robust Evaluation of United States Mortality Trends, 2006-2021 - Demography, 61 (4), 1143-1159 - doi: 10.1215/00703370-11460856 - [link]
- Cristina Richie, Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Hok Bing Thio, Alina Rwei, Chirlmin Joo, Urs Staufer, Dante Muratore, Massimo Mastrangeli, Irene Dedoussi, Job van Exel, Tom van Ourti, Igna Bonfrer, Alberto Gianoli, Alexander Los, Gijsbertus T.J. van der Horst, Martin van Hagen, Lex Burdorf, Jasper V. Been, Maud Hermans, Ralph Stadhouders, Robbert J. Rottier, Anna Bornioli, Ines Chaves & Willem A. Dik (2024) - Research on the health impact of climate must consider distributive justice and environmental sustainability - PLOS Climate, 3 (6) - doi: 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000431 - [link]
- Tom Van Ourti (2024) - Het belang van het inkomen van patiënten in de specialistische ggz - Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie, 66 (4), 227 - [link]
- Matthew Robson, Owen O'Donnell & Tom Van Ourti (2024) - Aversion to health inequality — Pure, income-related and income-caused - Journal of Health Economics, 94 - doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2024.102856 - [link]
- Francisca Vargas Lopes, Bastian Ravesteijn, Tom Van Ourti & Carlos Riumallo-Herl (2023) - Income inequalities beyond access to mental health care: a Dutch nationwide record-linkage cohort study of baseline disease severity, treatment intensity, and mental health outcomes - The Lancet Psychiatry, 10 (8), 588-597 - doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(23)00155-4 - [link]
- Kirsten I.M. Rohde, Tom Van Ourti & Amar Soebhag (2023) - Reducing socioeconomic health inequalities?: A questionnaire study of majorization and invariance conditions - Journal of Health Economics, 90 - doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102773 - [link]
- Callum Brindley, Tom Van Ourti, Joseph Capuno, Aleli Kraft, Jenny Kudymowa & Owen O’Donnell (2023) - Risk factor contributions to socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular risk in the Philippines: a cross-sectional study of nationally representative survey data - BMC Public Health, 23 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-15517-x - [link]
- Francisca Vargas Lopes, Pieter Bakx, Sam Harper, Bastian Ravesteijn & Tom Van Ourti (2022) - The effects of supported housing for individuals with mental disorders - Health Economics (United Kingdom), 31 (S2), 115-133 - doi: 10.1002/hec.4579 - [link]
