Mika Kortelainen
Professor, Research Professor (THL), Vice-head of Department of Economics
mika.kortelainen@utu.fi +358 29 450 4818 +358 50 308 2642 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7868-9651 |
Health economics, health care financing, effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, social and health care reform
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Mika Kortelainen is a professor of health economics at the University of Turku and a research professor at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL). Previously, he has worked as a chief researcher at the VATT Institute for Economic Research and as a lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK. He is also a docent of economics at the University of Helsinki.
Mika Kortelainen's research fields include health economics, economics of education and applied microeconometrics. His ongoing research projects concern the effectiveness of information and digital technologies in healthcare and the impacts of the healthcare and pharmaceutical market reforms and interventions.
Health economics, pharmaceutical markets, causal inference
- Labor Market Returns to Elite STEM Education (2026)
- Journal of human capital
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The effect of age-specific stay-at-home recommendation on healthcare utilization: Evidence from Finland’s COVID-19 policy (2026)
- European Journal of Health Economics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Treatment variability among low-acuity EMS patients in a university hospital ED : a retrospective registry study from Southwest Finland (2026)
- BMC Emergency Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A family affair? Long-term economic and mental health effects of spousal cancer (2025)
- Journal of Population Economics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Economic impact and disease burden of COVID-19 in a tertiary care hospital: A three-year analysis (2025)
- PLoS ONE
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Hyvinvointialueiden rahoitukseen on vaihtoehtoja (2025)
- Lääkärilehti
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Hyvinvointialueuudistuksen väliarviointi (2025) Haveri, Arto; Jalonen, Harri; Keskimäki, Ilmo; Saari, Juho; Tynkkynen, Liina-Kaisa; Pekurinen, Markku; Kortelainen, Mika; Lyytikäinen, Teemu; Ristikari, Tiina; Sorsa, Ville-Pekka
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Ostrobothnia Digital Clinic Experiment : Pre-Analysis Plan for a Randomized Controlled Trial (2025) Haaga, Tapio; Kortelainen, Mika; Nokso-Koivisto, Oskari; Saxell, Tanja; Seppä, Meeri; Sääksvuori, Lauri
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Perusterveydenhuollon digiklinikka- ja etäasiointi ja läsnäkäynnit sektoreittain Avohilmo-aineistossa 4/2023-3/2024 (2025) Haaga, Tapio; Kortelainen, Mika; Mauno, Vivi; Nokso-Koivisto, Oskari; Saxell, Tanja; Seppä, Meeri; Sääksvuori, Lauri;
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Pre-analysis plan : Adoption and Effects of Free Contraception Programs in Finland (2025) Hägg, Milla; Jussila, Elina; Kortelainen, Mika; Metsälampi, Satu; Viertola, Marika
(D4 Published development or research report or study )



