Uwe E. Reinhardt

Uwe Ernst Reinhardt (born September 24, 1937 in Osnabrück ; † November 13, 2017 in Princeton (New Jersey) ) was an economist.

Life

Reinhardt was born in Lower Saxony in 1937 and emigrated to Canada , where he completed a Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Saskatchewan . At Yale University , he completed a doctorate in economics and graduated with a PhD in economics in 1970 with the thesis An Economic Analysis of Physicians' Practices . He has taught political economy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University since 1970 and was most recently the James Madison Professor of Political Economy .

Reinhardt was a well-known scientist in the field of health economics and advisor to the World Bank, states and government organizations worldwide. He was a critic of the US health system . He made many comparisons with the health systems of other countries, which spend a much smaller proportion of GDP on it, but which achieve just as good results.

honors and awards

Admission to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (1978)

Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2010)

William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research (2010)

Presidential Prize (Taiwan; 2015)

Gérard-Gäfgen-Medal of the German Society for Health Economics (2016)

Bipartisan Health Policy Leadership Award (2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Famed health economist Uwe Reinhardt this in: Modern Healthcare from November 14, 2017
^ Profile at the New York Times

personal data
SURNAME	Reinhardt, Uwe E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Reinhardt, Uwe Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-American health economist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 24, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH	Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH	November 13, 2017
Place of death	Princeton, New Jersey

[1] Famed health economist Uwe Reinhardt this in: Modern Healthcare from November 14, 2017

[2] Profile at the New York Times