Health economics · Outcomes research

Corneliu Bolbocean

Economist and health services researcher. I study how pregnancy, birth and the earliest years of life shape health and wellbeing decades later — and how those outcomes should be measured, valued and used in policy.

Explore the research

Publications

First-author publications

Peer-reviewed journals

Core research strands

Overview

Quality-of-life measurement, early-life development and causal inference

My first-author publications in leading journals explore the health economics implications of adverse pregnancy outcomes, preterm birth and miscarriage, the value of neonatal care interventions, and outcomes in mental health and autism spectrum disorders. The work combines longitudinal birth cohorts, individual participant data meta-analysis and linked health records with causal-inference designs.

Research areas

Where the work focuses

Pregnancy loss

Adverse pregnancy outcomes

Miscarriage and pregnancy loss studied through linked health records and longitudinal cohorts: psychiatric morbidity, self-harm risk and quality-of-life trajectories after loss.

Preterm birth

Early risk, adult outcomes

Multi-cohort and individual participant data meta-analyses following adults born very preterm or at very low birth weight into early and mid-adulthood.

Measurement

Preference-based outcomes

How instruments such as the HUI3 and the SF-6D behave in practice, and what instrument choice implies for utility estimates and cost-effectiveness conclusions.

Policy and value