Ole Marten

Ole Marten is a Researcher at Bielefeld University's Faculty of Health Sciences, specifically within Working Group 5 Health Economics and Health Management. He has been serving in this capacity since October 2016, focusing on quality of life research primarily using the EuroQol Group's EQ-5D instrument, with particular emphasis on its applicability in the general elderly population.

Mr. Marten holds a Master of Science in Economics from Leibniz University Hannover, with specialization in health economics, and completed an additional "Economics and Health Economics" program at the University of Sheffield. His master's thesis focused on factors relevant to the decision to establish a practice for primary care physicians, and his Sheffield thesis addressed the operationalization of criteria for the implausibility of EQ-5D-5L health states.

• Research Focus: Quality of life measurement, health economics, patient-reported outcomes, elderly healthcare
• Current Projects: CHAMP (Allergy and Tolerance in Childhood), E-QALY (Extending the QALY), EQ-5D in elderly populations

His publication record demonstrates expertise in health economics methodology, particularly in the development and validation of health state valuation instruments. Recent work has examined cognitive understanding of measurement instruments, test-retest reliability, value set development, and comparative analyses across different populations, with a strong emphasis on elderly populations and new measurement tools like EQ-HWB and E-QALY.

• Member of the German Society for Health Economics (dggö)
• Active participant in the EuroQol Group and EQ-HWB Working Group

Mr. Marten's research contributes significantly to healthcare policy, resource allocation decisions, and patient-centered care approaches through improved measurement of health outcomes, which is critical for evidence-based healthcare decision-making.