Dr. Szilvia Altwicker-Hámori

Work at ZHAW

Position

Senior Researcher

Focus

health services research, work and health, social security, empirical legal research, access to healthcare, policy and impact evaluations, statistical data analysis

Experience

• senior researcher
  Health Services Research, WIG, ZHAW School of Management and Law
  09 / 2023 - today
• researcher
  Public Health Research, Institute of Public Health, ZHAW School of Health Sciences
  07 / 2012 - 08 / 2023
• researcher
  Labor Economics Unit, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  11 / 2007 - 07 / 2011

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Ph.D. Program “International Doctoral Courses in Health Economics and Policy” / Health Economics
  Swiss Society of Health Economics (SGGÖ) | Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+)
  06 / 2014 - 07 / 2021
• Ph.D. in Economics / Economics
  University of Mannheim
  03 / 2004 - 05 / 2008
• CDSE P.hD. Program in Economics / Economics
  Center for Doctoral Studies in Economics (CDSE), University of Mannheim
  10 / 2001 - 02 / 2004
• M.Sc. in Economics / Economics
  London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
  10 / 2000 - 07 / 2001
• Diploma in Economics / Economics
  London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
  10 / 1999 - 07 / 2000
• B.A. in German with French (European Studies) / German, French
  Queen Mary University of London
  10 / 1995 - 07 / 1999
• exchange program / German, French, Economics
  Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg
  10 / 1997 - 07 / 1998

Continuing Education

• Machine Learning in Health Economics
  Swiss Society of Health Economics (SGGÖ) | Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+)
  09 / 2022
• Resource Allocation and Cost-effectiveness Analysis
  London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
  08 / 2013
• Regression Methods for Health Economic Evaluation
  University of York
  04 / 2013

Network

Membership of networks

• Public Health Schweiz
• Swiss Society of Health Economics (SGGÖ)
• CDSE Alumni

Projects

• Quality indicators of polydisciplinary medical expert reports from the perspective of social security studies / law and empirical legal studies / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Inanspruchnahme von pädiatrischen Dienstleistungen in der Corona Pandemie (PedCov) / Team member / Project ongoing
• Why do some older workers with adverse health conditions remain in the labor force while others exit early? / Team member / Project completed
• Zielgruppenprofile in der Tabakprävention / Team member / Project completed
• Junge Menschen mit gesundheitlichen Einschränkungen: Anmeldung bei der Invalidenversicherung, Arbeitsmarktbeteiligung und Zugang zur Sozialversicherungsgerichtsbarkeit / Project leader / Project completed
• Bestandesaufnahme zu aktuellen und geplanten Kommunikationsaktivitäten im Bereich NCD und Sucht, Demenz und Suizidalität / Team member / Project completed
• Risikofaktoren einer Invalidisierung bei jungen Erwachsenen / Project leader / Project completed
• Lebensqualität bei Myelom Patientinnen und Patienten in drei Schweizer Kliniken / Team member / Project completed
• Profiles of young recipients of disability pensions due to mental disorders / Team member / Project completed
• Diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders in children and adolescents / Team member / Project completed
• Just Satisfaction under Art. 41 ECHR: A Quantitative Analysis / Project leader / Project completed
• Bedarfsanalyse migrationsgerechte Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention im Kanton Thurgau / Team member / Project completed
• Treatment of ADHD in children and adolescents in the Swiss canton of Zurich / Team member / Project completed
• Die Behandlung von Personen mit psychischen Krankheiten in der IV: Bestandesaufnahme der Behandlungssituation vor und während eines Rentenbezugs / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Stucki, Michael,

  2023.

  Factors associated with the choice of supplementary hospital insurance in Switzerland : an analysis of the Swiss Health Survey.

  BMC Health Services Research.

  23(246).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09221-0

• Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia,

  2023.

  Labour market integration of disability insurance benefit applicants in Switzerland : evidence from linked survey and administrative data.

  Alter : European Journal of Disability Research.

  17(1), pp. 69-86.

  Available from: https://journals.openedition.org/alterjdr/1829

• Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Altwicker, Tilmann; Gerber, Daniel,

  2022.

  Measuring outcomes in disability pension judgments : evidence from the social security court of the canton of Zurich.

  Journal of Social Security Law.

  2022(2), pp. 105-119.

• Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia,

  2021.

  Disability insurance benefit application in Switzerland : an analysis of linked administrative and survey data.

  BMC Health Services Research.

  21(982).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06992-2

• Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Tremp, Dania; Gächter, Thomas; Dratva, Julia,

  2020.

  Risikofaktoren für eine IV-Berentung junger Erwachsener : empirische Erkenntnisse und die Weiterentwicklung der Invalidenversicherung.

  Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Sozialversicherung und berufliche Vorsorge.

  64(4), pp. 167-180.

• Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Dratva, Julia,

  2019.

  Disability pension receipt in young adults : an analysis of the Swiss social protection and labour market (SESAM) data.

  BMC Public Health.

  19(831).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7098-1

• Baumann, Isabel; Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Juvalta, Sibylle; Baer, Niklas; Frick, Ulrich; Rüesch, Peter,

  2018.

  Employment prospects of young adults with mental disorders.

  Swiss Journal of Sociology.

  44(2), pp. 259-280.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1515/sjs-2018-0012

• Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Altwicker, Tilmann; Peters, Anne,

  2016.

  Measuring violations of human rights : an empirical analysis of awards in respect of non-pecuniary damage under the European Convention on Human Rights.

  Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht.

  76, pp. 1-52.

• Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Lovász, Anna,

  2013.

  A köz- és a magánszféra kereseti különbségei Magyarországon, 2002-2008 : javíthat-e hosszú távon a közalkalmazottak relatív helyzetén egy 50 százalékos béremelés?.

  Közgazdasági Szemle.

  2013(Mai), pp. 500-522.

  Available from: http://www.kszemle.hu/tartalom/cikk.php?id=1385

• Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Köllő, János,

  2012.

  Whose children gain from starting school later? – evidence from Hungary.

  Educational Research and Evaluation.

  18(5), pp. 459-488.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/13803611.2012.695142

• Hámori, Szilvia; Köllő, János,

  2011.

  Kinek használ az évvesztés? Iskolakezdési kor és tanulói teljesítmények Magyarországon.

  Közgazdasági Szemle.

  58, pp. 133-157.

• Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Altwicker, Tilmann; Gerber, Daniel,

  2023.

  Measuring outcomes in disability pension judgments : evidence from the social security court of the canton of Zurich [paper].

  In:

  20th Annual Conference of the German Law and Economics Association (GLEA), Budapest, Hungary, 6-7 July 2023.

• Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Juvalta, Sibylle; Bargetzi, Mario; Renner, Christoph; Taverna, Christina; Dratva, Julia,

  2021.

  Beliefs about medicines in patients with multiple myeloma in Switzerland [poster].

  In:

  4th Swiss Oncology & Hematology Congress (SOHC), Zurich, 18-20 November 2021.

  EMH Swiss Medical Publishers.

  pp. 28-29.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2021.w30107

• Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia,

  2021.

  Disability benefit application in Switzerland : an analysis of linked administrative and survey data [poster].

  In:

  14th European Public Health Conference, online, 10-12 November 2021.

  Oxford University Press.

  pp. 457.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckab165.313

• Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Dratva, Julia,

  2018.

  Factors associated with disability pension in young adults in Switzerland [paper].

  In:

  Swiss Public Health Conference 2018, Neuchâtel, 7-8 November 2018.

  Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+).

• Baumann, Isabel; Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Juvalta, Sibylle; Baer, Niklas; Frick, Ulrich; Rüesch, Peter,

  2016.

  Labor market integration of adolescents with mental disorders [paper].

  In:

  LacOSA International Conference on Sequence Analysis and Related Method,s Lausanne, 8-10 June 2016.

• Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Altwicker, Tilmann; Peters, Anne,

  2016.

  Measuring violations of human rights : an empirical analysis of awards in respect of non-pecuniary damage under the ECHR [paper].

  In:

  First Conference on Empirical Legal Studies in Europe (CELSE), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 21-22 June 2016.

• Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Altwicker, Tilmann; Peters, Anne,

  2016.

  Measuring violations of human rights : an empirical analysis of awards in respect of non-pecuniary damage under the ECHR [paper].

  In:

  14th Annual Meeting of the German Law and Economics Association (GLEA), Budapest, Hungary, 21-22 July 2016.

• Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Altwicker, Tilmann; Peters, Anne,

  2016.

  Measuring violations of human rights : an empirical analysis of awards in respect of non-pecuniary damage under the ECHR [paper].

  In:

  11th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS), Durham, USA, 18-19 November 2016.

• Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia,

  2023.

  Qualität medizinischer Gutachten : Einblicke in das neue SNF-BRIDGE-Discovery Forschungsprojekt.

  Gesundheitsökonomie @ ZHAW.

  Available from: https://blog.zhaw.ch/gesundheitsoekonomie/2023/11/23/qualitaet-medizinischer-gutachten-einblicke-in-das-neue-snf-bridge-discovery-forschungsprojekt/

• Baer, Niklas; Juvalta, Sibylle; Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Frick, Ulrich; Rüesch, Peter,

  2016.

  Jung, psychisch krank und invalidisiert.

  Soziale Sicherheit: CHSS.

  2016(1), pp. 49-54.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1780

• Baer, Niklas; Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Juvalta, Sibylle; Frick, Ulrich; Rüesch, Peter,

  2015.

  Profile von jungen IV-Neurentenbeziehenden mit psychischen Krankheiten.

  Bern:

  Bundesamt für Sozialversicherungen.

  Beiträge zur sozialen Sicherheit ; 15.

• Rüesch, Peter; Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Juvalta, Sibylle; Robin, Dominik,

  2014.

  Behandlung von ADHS bei Kindern und Jugendlichen im Kanton Zürich : Forschungsbericht.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1778

• Rüesch, Peter; Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Juvalta, Sibylle,

  2014.

  Diagnose und Behandlung junger Menschen mit psychischen Krankheiten : Literaturstudie zu evidenzbasierten, internationalen Leitlinien zur Diagnostik und Behandlung von psychischen Krankheiten bei Minderjährigen und jungen Erwachsenen.

  Bundesamt für Sozialversicherungen.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1779

• Rüesch, Peter; Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Bührlen, Bernhard,

  2014.

  Versorgungssituation von Versicherten mit psychischen Problemen : Terra incognita?.

  Soziale Sicherheit: CHSS.

  2014(2), pp. 86-90.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1781

• Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Lovász, Anna,

  2014.

  Wage differential between the public and private sector in Hungary between 2002 and 2008 : the long term effect of wage increase

  .

  In:

  Fazekas, Károly; Neumann, László, eds.,

  The Hungarian labour market 2014.

  Budapest:

  Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

  pp. 59-66.

  Available from: http://econ.core.hu/file/download/HLM2014/TheHungarianLabourMarket_2014_onefile.pdf

• Rüesch, Peter; Bührlen, Bernhard; Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Juvalta, Sibylle; Träbert, Silke,

  2013.

  Die Behandlung von Personen mit psychischen Krankheiten - Bestandsaufnahme der Behandlungssituation vor und während eines Rentenbezugs der Invalidenversicherung : Machbarkeitsstudie - Schlussbericht.

  Bundesamt für Sozialversicherungen.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1783

• Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Köllő, János,

  2013.

  The public sector labor market from crisis to crisis in Hungary

  .

  In:

  Vaughan-Whitehead, Daniel, ed.,

  The public sector shock : the impact of policy retrenchment in Europe.

  Cheltenham:

  Edward Elgar.

  pp. 300-336.

• Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Lovász, Anna,

  2011.

  Can a fifty percent increase in public sector wages improve the position of public sector employees in the long run? An assessment of the public-private income gap in Hungary.

  Budapest:

  Corvinius University of Budapest.

  ISBN 978-615-5024-72-6.

  Available from: http://www.econ.core.hu/file/download/bwp/bwp1106.pdf

• Bajnai, Blanka; Hámori, Szilvia; Köllő, János,

  2009.

  The Hungarian labour market : a European perspective

  .

  In:

  Fazekas, Károly; Köllő, János, eds.,

  The Hungarian labour market 2009.

  Budapest:

  Institute of Economics.

  pp. 44-93.

  Available from: http://econ.core.hu/file/download/mt09/infocus.pdf

• Dratva, Julia; Seiler, Michelle; Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; von Rhein, Michael; Laasner, Ursula; Dey, Michelle,

  2023.

  Effekte der COVID-19-Pandemie auf die Inanspruchnahme von primär pädiatrischen Gesundheitsdienstleitungen in der Schweiz.

  In:

  Kongress für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, Hamburg, Deutschland, 20.-23. September 2023.

• Altwicker, Tilmann; Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Gerber, Daniel; Peters, Anne,

  2018.

  Pain and suffering damages in complex human rights cases : an empirical analysis under the European Convention of Human Rights.

  In:

  16th Annual Conference of the German Law and Economics Association (GLEA), Ljubljana, 5-6 July 2018.

• Altwicker, Tilmann; Altwicker-Hámori, Szilvia; Gerber, Daniel; Peters, Anne,

  2018.

  Pain and suffering damages in complex human rights cases : an empirical analysis under the European Convention of Human Rights.

  In:

  Second Conference on Empirical Legal Studies in Europe (CELSE) 2018, Leuven, Belgium, 31 May - 1 June 2018.

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