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Professor Jaume Puig-Junoy receives an award from the University of Costa Rica

05.02.2007

 

February 5th 2007

The first edition of the “Dr. Anna Gabriela Ross” award, given by the Economics Faculty of the University of Costa Rica (UCR), has been awarded to Jaume Puig-Junoy, professor at the Department of Economics and Business of UPF and post-graduate professor of Economics at said UCR. The prize is in recognition of his teaching and research carried out in the field of Health Economics in Costa Rica since the year 2000. The award has given on the 10th of January, 2007, by the Costa Rica Health Minister, Maria Luisa Ávila, in an event held at the UCR Economics Faculty.

At the prize-giving ceremony, Jaume Puig-Junoy said that Health Economy contributes towards improving the quality of health services by strengthening the decision-making process in the corresponding public policies. Puig-Junoy added that “within the health sector, the most important investment is in human capital and we must take into account the age and health distribution of a country’s population”. Furthermore he insisted on the need to evaluate medical technologies and medicines according to the life expectancy and quality of life of patients, so as to garantie and improve their welfare.

Professor Jaume Puig-Junoy gained his doctorated in Economics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 1991 with a doctorated thesis entitled “Growth, employment and technology in the Spanish hospital sector”, a work which was published under this title by Generalitat de Catalunya in 1993. Between 1983 and 1991, he occupied various posts in Catalan Public Health Administration. In 1992 he joined the Department of Economics and Business of UPF, initially as a visiting professor and from 1999 onwards as a professor of Economics.

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