Biography
Dr Wei Yang is a health economist with an interest in health and long-term care (LTC) research. Her previous work focuses on measuring the impacts of social health insurance on inequities in access to care and fairness in financing, and on identifying factors that drive inequities using longitudinal survey datasets.
She has published widely in journals such as Health Policy and Planning, and Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. She is a member of the editorial board of Global Health Research and Policy, and the guest-editor of a special issue of the Asian Journal of Public Policy on China’s National Health Reform.
Wei holds the Future Research Leader award from the Economics and Social Research Council. Before joining King’s, she was a Research Fellow in Health Economics at the University of Kent.
She completed her PhD in Health Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2014), MPhil in Medical Sociology at National University of Singapore (2009) and BA in Sociology at Fudan University in China (2006).
Research
- Inequalities in health and social care
- Health and long-term care financing policy
- Cost-effectiveness analysis in heath and health care
Wei's current research explores issues relating to efficiency and sustainability in loan-to-cost (LTC) financing in China. She also holds expertise in using cost-effectiveness analysis and decision analytical modelling to evaluate health interventions across population groups, with a focus on cardiovascular diseases among the elderly population.
Teaching
Undergraduate
Postgraduate
Further details
See Wei's research profile
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Yang, W., Wu, B., Tan, S. Y., Li, B., Lou, V. W. Q., Chen, Z., Chen, X., Fletcher, J. R., Carrino, L., Hu, B., Zhang, A., Hu, M. & Wang, Y., 1 Jan 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : RESEARCH ON AGING. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027520938764
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Yang, W., Chang, S., Zhang, W., Wang, R., Mossialos, E., Wu, X., Cui, D., Li, H. & Mi, H., 1 Jan 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : RESEARCH ON AGING. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027520907346
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RELISH CONSORTIUM, 29 Oct 2019, In : Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baz085
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Yang, W., 2019, In : Ageing and Society. p. 1-20 Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X1900148X
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Chang, S., Yang, W. & Deguchi, H., 1 Jan 2020, In : Social Science and Medicine. 244, 112667. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112667
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Yang, W., 16 Sep 2019, In : CHINA QUARTERLY. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741019001115
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Liu, L., Wang, Q., Dong, S., Sara, B., Yang, W. & Li, H., 2018, In : Inquiry. 55 Research output: Contribution to journal - Article
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Tan, S., Wu, X. & Yang, W., 8 May 2018, In : Health economics, policy, and law. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1017/S174413311800018X
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Yang, W., Gage, H., Jackson, D. & Raats, M., 6 Nov 2017, In : European Journal of Health Economics. p. 1-14 14 p. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-017-0934-2
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Hamilton-West, K., Hotham, S., Yang, W., Hedayioglu, J. & Brigden, C., 18 Apr 2017, In : Primary Health Care Research and Development. p. 1-10 10 p. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1463423617000184