Igor Francetic

{Applied ∪ Health} ⊂ Economics

Publications

This page lists my published work in peer-reviewed scientific journals, divided by broad topic (demand vs. supply, health policy). Current Working Papers are listed in the Research section. Media presence and other publications are listed here.

Publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, by topic

Demand side – Health and behaviours

  • Alesci A., Francetic I. 2025. Emergency Department utilization in Switzerland: comparing Swiss natives and immigrant generations. Journal of Migration ahd Health.(Accepted).
  • Watkinson R., Linfield A., Tielemans J., Francetic I., Munford L. 2024. Gender-related self-reported mental health inequalities in primary care in England: Cross-sectional analysis using the GP Patient Survey. The Lancet Public Health. 10.1016/S2468-2667(23)00301-8.
    Code available: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ENJPS2.
    Media coverage: The Guardian, Daily Mail, The Times, Pulse.
  • Elliott J., Francetic I., Meacock R., Sutton M. 2024. Do informal care recipients internalise carer burden? Examining the effect of informal care receipt on health behaviours. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy. 10.1007/s40258-023-00843-3
  • Francetic I., Meacock R., Sutton M. 2022. Understanding Concordance in Health Behaviours among Couples: Evidence from the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme in England. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 201: 310-345. 10.1016/j.jebo.2022.08.001.
  • Francetic I., Munford L. 2021. Corona and Coffee on your commute: A spatial analysis of COVID-19 mortality and commuting flows in England in 2020. European Journal of Public Health 31(4): 901–907. 10.1093/eurpub/ckab072.

Supply side – Healthcare organisation and provision

  • Dodd J., Munford L., Sutton M., Francetic I. 2025. The effect of area-level waiting times for psychological therapies on individual-level labour market outcomes. Labour Economics 96:102748. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102748
  • Anderson M., Francetic I. 2025. Adoption of clinical pharmacist roles in primary care: Longitudinal evidence from English General Practice. British Journal of General Practice. 10.3399/BJGP.2024.0320.
  • Francetic I., Meacock R., Sutton M. 2024. Free-for-all: Does crowding impact outcomes because emergency departments do not prioritise effectively? Journal of Health Economics 95:102881. 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2024.102881.
    Code available: https://github.com/igorfrancetic/freeforall/
  • Campbell C., Dodd J., Francetic I. 2024. Outcomes for university students following emergency care presentation for deliberate self-harm: retrospective observational study for 2017/2018. BMJ Open 14:e078672. 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-078672.
  • Turner A.J., Francetic I., Watkinson R., Gillibrand S., Sutton M. 2022. Socioeconomic inequality in access to timely and appropriate care in emergency departments.  Journal of Health Economics 82:102668. 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2022.102668.
  • Francetic I., Gibson J., Spooner S., Checkland K., Sutton M. 2022. Skill-mix change and outcomes in primary care: longitudinal analysis of English General Practices 2015-2019.  Social Science & Medicine 308:115224. 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115224.
  • Gibson J., Francetic I., Spooner S., Checkland K., Sutton M. 2022. Primary care workforce composition with population, professional and system outcomes: retrospective cross-sectional analysis. British Journal of General Practice 72 (718): e307-e315. 10.3399/BJGP.2021.0593.
  • Francetic I., Tediosi F., Kuwawenaruwa A. 2021.  A network analysis of patient referrals in two district health systems in Tanzania. Health Policy and Planning 36(2): 162-175. 10.1093/heapol/czaa138.
  • Francetic I., Fink G., Tediosi F. 2021. Impact of social accountability monitoring on health facility performance: Evidence from Tanzania. Health Economics 30(4):766-785. 10.1002/hec.4219.
  • Francetic I., Tediosi F., Salari P., De Savigny D. 2019. Going operational with health systems governance: supervision and incentives to health workers for increased quality of care in Tanzania. Health Policy and Planning 34 (supplement 2): ii77-ii92. 10.1093/heapol/czz104.

Health policy

  • Agyemang-Benneh A., Francetic I., Hammond J., Checkland K. 2023. Evaluating primary care networks in low- and lower middle income countries: A scoping review. BMJ Global Health 8: e012505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-012505.
  • Francetic I., Meacock R., Elliott J., Kristensen S.R., Britteon R., Lugo-Palacios D., Sutton M. 2022. Framework for identification and measurement of spillover effects in policy implementation: Intended Non-intended TargEted Non-Targeted Spillovers (INTENTS). Implementation Science Communications 3(30): 1-15. 10.1186/s43058-022-00280-8.
  • Francetic I. 2021. Bad law or implementation flaws? Lessons from the implementation of the new law on epidemics during the first months of response to COVID-19 in Switzerland. Health Policy 125(10): 1285-1290. 10.1016/j.healthpol.2021.08.004.
  • De Pietro C., Francetic I. 2018. E-health in Switzerland: The laborious adoption of the federal law on electronic health records (EHR) and health information exchange (HIE) networks. Health Policy 122(2): 69–74. 10.1016/j.healthpol.2017.11.005.

Contributions to books

  • Francetic I. 2020. Health Reforms In Tanzania: From Self-Reliance To Donor Dependency and Efforts to Return to Self-Reliance, in Okma, K.G.H. and Tenbensel, T. (ed.), Health Reforms Across the World. The Experience of Twelve Small and Medium-sized Nations with Changing Their Healthcare Systems. Chapter 2, pp. 55-73. Singapore: World Scientific. 10.1142/9789811208928_0003.

Peer-reviewed reports and editorials

  • Merriel S.W.D., Francetic I., Buttle P. 2023. Direct access to imaging for cancer from primary care. BMJ 380:e074766. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2023-074766.
  • McDermott I., Spooner S., Goff M., Gibson J., Dalgarno E., Francetic I., Hann M., Hodgson D., McBride A., Checkland K., Sutton M. 2022. Scale, scope and impact of skill mix change in primary care in England: a mixed-methods study. Health Soc Care Deliv Res 10(9). 10.3310/YWTU6690.
  • Francetic I. 2019. Governance to address health systems pitfalls of antibiotics overuse in low- and middle-income countries. International Journal of Public Health 64: 1127-1128. 10.1007/s00038-019-01292-3.