Evaluating school-based health services using instrumental variables
Evaluating school-based health services using instrumental variables
This talk will discuss an evaluation of school-based health services in New Zealand, using data from a nationally representative sample of high school students. Analyses included an instrumental variables approach that utilised the (somewhat) random distribution of school-based health services among New Zealand high schools.
Information about the speaker: Simon Denny is an Associate Professor and Paediatrician working at the Centre for Youth Health in South Auckland and University of Auckland. He completed his adolescent training in the USA where he was a 2000-01 Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy. He was the Principal Investigator of Youth'07 which was New Zealand's second National Youth Health and Wellbeing survey. He has published extensively on youth health issues in New Zealand and was the chair of the Adolescent Health Research Group and Society of Youth Health Professionals Aotearoa New Zealand.
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