Julia WITT | RESEARCH

Current Work

Under Review

Scott A, Helgeim JH, Witt J. “Pro-social Motivation and Public Sector Work: Evidence from Medical Specialists”, submitted

Scott A, Witt J “Loss Aversion, Reference Dependence and Diminishing Sensitivity in Choice Experiments”, submitted

Papers In Progress

“How does access to provider affect health outcomes?” (with U. Oguzoglu)

“The effect of changes in distance to provider on health care utilization in rural Canada” (with U. Oguzoglu)

“Cost-Effectiveness of Midwifery in Manitoba” (with K. Thiessen, A. Peden)

“Cost of IBD in Canada” (with C. Bernstein, L. Targownik)

Current Projects

Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) Open Operating Grant: “Towards Sustainable Rural Health Care: Combining Physicians’ Preferences with the Needs of Rural Residents”, Principal Investigator: Julia Witt, Co-investigators: Evelyn Forget, Alan Katz, Umut Oguzoglu; Grant Amount: $178,482 (2014 – 2017).

Publications

Journal Articles

Witt J. “Physician Recruitment and Retention in Manitoba: Results from a Survey of Physicians’ Preferences for Rural Jobs” Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine: in press

Scott A, Witt J, Duffield C, Kalb G. “What do nurses and midwives value about their job? Results from a discrete choice experiment.” (2015) Journal of Health Services Research & Policy 20(1), 31 – 38

Li J, Scott A, McGrail M, Humphreys J, Witt J. “Retaining rural doctors: doctors’ preferences for rural medical workforce incentives” (2014) Social Science & Medicine 121: 56 – 64. PMID 25306410

Roos L, Walld R, Witt J. “Adolescent Outcomes and Opportunities in a Canadian Province: Looking at Siblings and Neighbors” (2014) BMC Public Health 14: 506

Manji RA, Witt J, Tappia PS, Jung Y, Menkis AH, Ramjiawan B. “Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Rheumatic Heart Disease Prevention Strategies”, (2013) Expert Review in Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 13(6), In Press

Scott A, Witt J, Humphreys J, Joyce C, Kalb G, Jeon SH, McGrail M. “Getting doctors into the bush: General Practitioners’ preferences for rural location” (2013) Social Science & Medicine 96, 33 – 44.

Sivey P, Scott A, Witt J, Joyce C, Humphreys J, Kalb G. “What influences the choice of specialty of young doctors? A discrete choice experiment from the MABEL longitudinal study of doctors” (2012) Journal of Health Economics 31(6): 813 – 823.

Scott A, Jeon S, Joyce C, Humphreys J, Kalb G, Witt J, Leahy A. “A randomized trial and economic evaluation of the effect of response mode on response rate, response bias, and item non-response in a survey of doctors” (2011) BMC Medical Research Methodology 11:126.

Laskowski M, Demianyk BCP, Witt J, Mukhi SN, Friesen MR, McLeod RD. “Agent-Based Modeling of the Spread of Influenza-Like Illness in an Emergency Department: A Simulation Study” (2011) forthcoming: IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

Joyce C, Scott A, Jeon S, Humphreys J, Kalb G, Witt J and Leahy A. “Workforce participation of Australian doctors – Baseline cohort of the “Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL)” longitudinal survey” (2010) BMC Health Services Research 10:50.

Witt J. “Addressing the Migration of Health Professionals: The Role of Working Conditions and Educational Placements” (2009) BMC Public Health 9(S1): S6.

Jensen P, Webster E and Witt J. “Hospital type and patient outcomes: An empirical examination using AMI re-admission and mortality records” (2009) Health Economics 18(12): 1440 – 1460.

Witt J, Scott A and Osborne R. “Designing Choice Experiments with Many Attributes. An Application to Setting Priorities for Orthopaedic Waiting Lists.” (2009) Health Economics 18(6): 681 – 696.

Witt J. “The Effect of Information in the Utilization of Preventive Health Care Strategies: An Application to Breast Cancer.” (2008) Health Economics, 17(6): 721 – 731.

Hoy M and Witt J. “Welfare Effects of Banning Genetic Information in Insurance Markets: The Case of the BRCA1/2 Genes” (2007) Journal of Risk and Insurance, 74(3): 523 – 546.