Blog

Here are some posts I wrote about the healthcare system, teaching programming, and other interests.

Warum der Markt allein nur wenig koordinierte Versorgung liefert

Warum liefert der Markt allein zu wenig koordinierte Versorgung? Komplexitätskosten, Externalitäten und Fehlanreize, und wie bessere Vergütung hilft.

Aurélien Sallin

Measuring the Effects of Population-level Interventions Using Healthcare Claims Data

How do you evaluate a health policy when everyone is treated at once? Interrupted time series on Swiss claims data, from my 2026 Fribourg talk.

Aurélien Sallin

Health expenditure and health outcomes

Are higher health expenditures associated with better health outcomes? A student project with World Bank and OECD data: yes, but only up to a point.

Aurélien Sallin

An artistic map of my biking meandering using rStrava and open street maps

In 2025, I spent 322h biking around the countryside. Here is an artistic, data visualization way, to represent these hours of discovery and sweating effort.

Aurélien Sallin

Guidelines vs. Financial Incentives Against Low-Value Care: Which Policy Tool Actually Changes Physician Behavior?

A Swiss natural experiment: financial incentives cut unnecessary vitamin D testing by 60%, while clinical guidelines achieved only 6%.

Aurélien Sallin