Günter Neubauer

Günter Neubauer (born July 1, 1941 in Kitzingen ) is a German economist with a focus on health economics , health management and political advice .

Life

Günter Neubauer grew up with six siblings in a rural area near Kitzingen . His parents were self-employed. After graduating from high school in Kitzingen in 1961, he worked as a conscript and then as a temporary officer in the armed forces until 1963. He then studied economics at the Universities of Würzburg and Hamburg . Günter Neubauer did his doctorate with Bruno Molitor during his time as an assistant on the subject of socio-economic problems of a public health service - the example of Great Britain .

From 1987 to 1990 Günter Neubauer was a member of the Enquête Commission on Structural Reform of the Statutory Health Insurance of the German Bundestag, before he was a member of the Expert Council from 1991 to 1998 to assess developments in the health care system . Until his retirement in 2006, Günter Neubauer was professor of economics with a focus on health economics and health management at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich .

He is currently director of the Institute for Health Economics Munich (IfG) , member of several advisory boards and supervisory boards, including the Munich Municipal Clinic , and board member of Health Care Bayern e. V. Günter Neubauer has been married since 1968, has a son who works as an ophthalmologist and three grandchildren.

Core theses

Günter Neubauer represents the positions of the social market economy in health policy , in particular a competitive volume, quality and price control in health care within a state-set regulatory framework. He sees the solution to the demographic risk in increasing productivity and extending the working hours of the working population. For the promotion of innovations, he considers a price differentiation according to insurance status to be useful.

Web links

• Literature by and about Günter Neubauer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Günter Neubauer  in the German Digital Library
• IfG Munich website
• Page about Günter Neubauer on the website of the University of the Federal Armed Forces with an extensive list of publications

Individual evidence

1. ^ Final report of the study commission "Structural Reform of Statutory Health Insurance": according to the resolution of the German Bundestag of June 4, 1987 and October 27, 1988; Printed matter 11/310 and 11/3181, Bonn 1990 PDF
2. ↑ Board of Directors of Health Care Bayern e. V. ( Memento of the original from August 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ CV on the website of the IfG Munich
4. ^ Neubauer Günter (2013): Demographic Change: Challenges to Health Care, the World of Work and Society . In: Burger Stephan (Ed.): Age and multimorbidity - challenges to health care and the world of work , medhochzwei Verlag, Heidelberg, June 2013, ISBN 978-3-86216-109-6
5. ↑ Vereinigung der Bayerischen Wirtschaft / IfG München (2012): Compass Health Policy  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.2 MB)