Dr Ron Donato

• Program Director: 1997-2009

  Bachelor of Business (International Business)

  Bachelor Business (International Business)/Bachelor of Arts (International Studies)

• Current Courses taught:

  Microeconomics ECON 1006

  Competitive Strategy BUSS 3046

  Health Economics - Flinders University of South Australia - post-graduate Masters of Health Administration Program

Professional Membership

Economic Society of Australia

Australian Health Economics Society

International Health Economics Association

B.Ec. University of Adelaide (1978)

Grad.Dip.Ec. University of Adelaide (1992)

M.Ec. (research) University Adelaide (1996)

• I have published and consulted widely in the health economics area for the past decade. My current research activities centre around the economics of health care reform with a particular focus on managed competition. Recent research has been in relation to the application of diagnostic-based risk-adjustment methodology in the Australian context and the economics of contracting in health care.

Refereed Journals and Books

Donato, R. (2009) 'The Hawke Legacy - Medicare and Australian health policy' in The Hawke Legacy, Bloustien, G., Comber, B. and Mackinnon, A. (eds.) Wakefield Press.

Donato, R. in Batersby, M. et al (2007) SA HealthPlus: A controlled trial of a statewide application of a generic model of chronic illness care. Milbank Quarterly 85(1) 37-67

Donato, R. and Richardson, J. (2006) Diagnosis-based risk adjustment and Australian Health System Policy', Australian Health Review 30(1) 83-99

Shanahan, M and Donato, R,(2001),'Counting the cost. Estimating the economic benefit of paedophile treatment programs', Child Abuse and Neglect, 25, 541-555.

Donato, R,March, G, Moss, J and Gilbert, A (2001)'An economic Evaluation of the delivery of Pharmaceutical Care Services through Australian Community Pharmacies', with The International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 9: 23-30

Donato, R, and Shanahan, M, (2001, The Economics of Child Sex-Offender Rehabilitation Programs: Beyond Prentky and Burgess, with Shanahan, M. Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 71(1), 131-139

Donato, R and Shanahan, M. (1999) 'The Economics of Implementing Intensive In-tensive Sex-offender Treatment Programs', Trends and Issues No. 134 Criminal Research Council

Donato, R. and Scotton, R. (1998), 'The Australian Health Care System', in Economics and Australian Health Policy, Mooney, G. and Scotton, R. (eds.) Allen and Unwin, Sydney.

O'Brien, K. and Donato, R. (1993) 'Hospital acquired rota virus infection: the economics of prevention', Australian Health Review, 16(3) 245-267.

Workshop Proceedings

Donato, R. (2002), Competition and Capitation, in Managed Competition in Health care, workshop proceedings, 23 August 2002; Productivity Commission. Canberra

Other Publications and Reports

Donato, R and Richardson, J (2003) 'Insights into the validity and potential usefulness of diagnosis-based risk-adjustment methods in the Australian context: The application of DxCG software to NSW Hospital Inpatient data', Final Report to the Department of Health and Aged Care - May 2003.

Segal, L, Richardson, J, Donato, R and MacDonald, C (2001) ' Single Fundholding Capitated Models: A Description and Critique, Research Report to the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care

Health Economist consultant to Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre(2000) preparation of Final Report: Quality Use of Medicines in the Community Implementation Trial, funded by the PharmacyGuild/Government Agreement, Dept. of Health and Aged Care

Donato, R., Shanahan, M. and Higgins, R. (1999), A cost Benefit Analysis of child sex-offender treatment programs for male offenders in correctional services, Report funded by the Criminal Research Council, Canberra.

Health Economist consultant to Pharamcy Practice Research Group (1997) preparation of Final Report of the Community Pharmacy Model Practices Project - June 1996 - September 1997, fundey by the PharmacyGuild/Government Agreement, Dept. of Health and Family services

Charting the way forward...or backwards? A critique of the Report of the South Australian Commission of Audit (1994), with (Broomhill, R., Genoff, R., Johnson, Juniper, J. McBride, Shanahan, M., Sharp, R Spoehr, Worrall, L. - comprising the team members of the Regional Research Network.)

Donato, R. and Spoehr, J. (1995), An Assessment of the impact of contracting out the management of SA water, a commissioned report for the Public Service Association.

Donato, R., Genoff, R. and Spoehr, J. (1995), The Cadell Training Centre - a cost -benefit analysis critique, a commissioned report for the Public Service Association.

"An Assessment of the Economic policies of the South Australian Government 1993 - 1996" (1996) Health economics contributor for the report prepared by the Regional Research Network.

Recent and Ongoing Commisioned Research

1999 - Health economics consultant (together with John Moss from the University of Adelaide) for the School of Pharmacy (University of South Australia) and the Department of General Practice (University of Adelaide) to undertake a economic analysis in the Quality Use of Medicines in the Community Implementation Trial. A project funded by the Pharmacy Guild and the Commonwealth Government

1998 - Health Economics Consultant to the South Australian Health Commission for the Evaluation of the Coordinated Care Trials - Commonwealth Government funded medical care trials on alternative mechanisms for funding and delivering health care.

In 1997/98 - Health Economist Team member (with Professor Freda Briggs, Dr. Martin Shanahan and Ros Higgins) of a Criminal Research Council (nationally competitive) research grant to provide a cost-benefit analysis of alternative sex treatment programs for male sex offenders in South Australia.

In 1996/97 - Health economics consultant (together with John Moss from the University of Adelaide) commissioned by the School of Pharmacy (University of South Australia) to undertake a cost-benefit analysis of alternative model pharmacy practices - funded by the Pharmacy Guild.

1996 Health economics consultant for the Indonesian-Australian Health Service Management Training Program - a professional development program organised by OTO Bappenas Indonesian Ministry of Health in conjunction with the University of S.A. (Faculty of Nursing), and S.A. Health Commission.

(1996) Health economics consultant and coordinator for the Indonesian-Australia Health Management Training Program - a program sponsored by AUSAID and delivered by the Faculty of Nursing and the Faculty of Business and Management from the University of South Australia

(1996), Health Economics consultant (in conjunction with the Faculty of Nursing) in-house health management training program - Department of Medicine at Gajah Mada University, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.