Short Course 2025 | Spatial Health Econometrics
Instructor: Rita Santos
“Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things.”
— Tobler’s First Law of Geography (1970)
This principle holds true not just in geography, but also in economics — including the behaviour of healthcare providers. But how can we account for this spatial interdependence in economic models? How do we capture it in competition and peer effects models?
Join us for the Spatial Health Econometrics Short Course, where we will explore how spatial relationships — such as proximity and network connections — influence healthcare delivery and outcomes.
In this course, Dr Rita Santos will introduce the core concepts of spatial econometrics and demonstrate their applications to real-world challenges in health economics. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on sessions using Stata, participants will explore key spatial models and learn how to analyse health data while accounting for spatial interdependence.
Date: To 8 July 2025, 10:00-14:00 (WET)*
Time: 10:00-14:00 (WET – Lisbon Time)
Format: Online
Language: English
Session structure
10:00-11:00 Introduction to Spatial Econometrics
11:00-11:45 Spatial Econometric models – theory – part 1
11:45-12:00 Coffee break
12:00 -12:45 Spatial Econometric models – theory – part 2
12:45-14:00 Spatial Econometric models – Stata Lab
14:00 Q&A
About the Instructor
Dr Rita Santos is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Economics (CHE), University of York. She is a health economist with extensive experience in developing and applying methods for causal inference, including matching, weighting, and difference-in-differences, using data from administrative health records and other real-world sources.
She is renowned for her innovative applications of spatial statistics and spatial econometrics in health policy and health economics. Her contributions extend beyond the health sector, with publications in prestigious mainstream economics journals such as the Economic Journal and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, as well as in regional and social science journals.
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