Madrid was this June 2025 the headquarters of the XLIV Conference of the Association of Health Economics (AES), and the Evaluaes group did not miss the opportunity to organize its already table dedicated to the evaluation of polis and health services. Faithful to its purpose of facilitating the interaction between researchers from different disciplines, the session – moderated this year by Grace Armijos Bravo– He offered a space to present, discuss approaches and reflection on how evaluation can contribute to improve health systems. In this entrance we share the chronicle of a table that returned to stand out for the quality of the investigations, the diversity of perspective and the richness of the expert commentators.
The first intervention was in charge of Ariadna García-Prado (Public University of Navarra) who presented the article Soft versus versus reports of violence against women: an experimental approach, commented by Celia Muñoz Fernández (Independent Fiscal Responsibility Authority, Airef). In his study, Ariadna analyzed the impact of Soft reports or complaint through social services – no need to identify the aggressor – in the disposition of witnesses for cases of violence against women (VCM). This modality, intruded by the Royal Decroto-Mey 9/2018, allows a victims Hard reports. Mediaito an experimental integrated approach in a national survey representation (n = 6,000), individuals were assigned randomly to six treatments to estimate the causal effect of offering offer Soft reports. The results show that the willingness to intervene is greater in cases of physical violence than in psychological violence; However, in both types, the availability of Soft reports The intention of acting, a special environment in situations of psychological violence, where the incidence is greater but the complaints are usually minor.
Ariadna García-Prado doing her present Comments by Celia Muñoz Fernández
In second place, Camila Regueiro Ons (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) presented the article Do we want dad to stay at home? Paternity Leave and Child Healthcommented by Alexandrina Stoyanova (University of Barcelona). In this work, the author analyzes the effect of the paternity permit on child health. To do this, it uses the implementation of the paternity permit in Spain by applying a difference in discontinuities (RD-DD) to data from health records. The results show almost 8% less medical diagnosis and 9% less infections, especially respiratory infections. In addition, the number of diagnostics decreased seformatively in children under one year old and among those of lower socioeconomic ennors. A possible mechanism identified by the author is the change in formal care to parental care, which would reduce exposureis a environments where the propagation of infections is probable.
Comments from Alexandrina Stoyanova to the work of Camila Regueiro Ons
Finally, the last present to was in charge of Sophie Gorgemans (University of Zaragoza) With the study Does reversal in the organization of hospitals improve productivity?commented by Karla Hernández-Villafuerte (Wifor Institute). The study analyzes the productivity and dynamic efficiency of the traumatology services in 186 Spanish Punblics between 2002 and 2018, evaluating the impact of reversing the organizational model -of foundations or consortiums a direct management for the services of the health region -on -Geses -Geion of -Dedometers resources. Using the Malmquist index and its decomposition in efficiency and technological changes, it is considered that the entrances of how beds and the authorities, and as the high external consultations and consultations come out. The results show that nine Revirtieron Hospitals their model in the period studied. On average, technical efficiency improves after reversal, and 67% presents an increase in productivity, although without a uniform trend. When productivity decreases, it is due to a decrease in efficiency, not in technological change, which improves in 90% of cases.
Present by Sophie Gorgemans Comments by Karla Hernández-Villafuerte
