Petra Došenović Bonča
PhD

Petra Došenović Bonča, PhD, is an associate professor at the School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her research fields are health economics and public economics. Her current research focuses on efficiency and performance of health care providers in Slovenia and on innovations as factors of efficiency and performance. She is currently a member of the Statistical Advisory Committee for Health at the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia and the representative of the University of Ljubljana in the Project Committee supervising the improvement of the DRG system in Slovenia. Petra Došenović Bonča is also a member of The Health Council - the highest professional coordinating and advisory body to the Minister for Health in the field of health, health care and health insurance. She is also a member of the International Health Economics Association and The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research. In the 2013-2017 period, she was the coordinator of the international accreditation of business schools EQIUS at the School of Economics and Business. She has published several scientific contributions analysing and assessing the Slovenian health care system and policy initiatives related to this sector. She has co-authored a comprehensive textbook on health economics. She has also participated in reform efforts and has been involved in consultancy projects for hospitals in Slovenia. She has participated in the development of the first postgraduate degree programme in Health Economics and Management offered in Slovenia. Since 2017, she is the head of this programme and currently teaches courses Principles of health economics, Health systems and policies, Economic evaluation in health care and Health insurance. She is also active in the field of lifelong education in the field of health economics.

• TAJNIKAR, Maks, DOŠENOVIĆ BONČA, Petra
  Ekonomika zdravstva: zdravstvo kot gospodarska dejavnost v javnih zdravstvenih sistemih (Health economics: health care as an economic activity in public health systems)
  Ljubljana: Ekonomska fakulteta, Založništvo, 2023

• URLAN, Tjaša, BIJEC, Janez, DOŠENOVIĆ BONČA, Petra, OGRAJENŠEK, Irena, JUG, Borut
  Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on acute coronary syndrome hospital admission and management in Slovenia
  Open heart. Jul. 2023, vol. 10, iss. 2, article no. e002440

• ŠARC, Irena, LOTRIČ DOLINAR, Aleša, MORGAN, Tina, SAMBT, Jože, ZIHERL, Kristina, GAVRIĆ, Dalibor, ŠELB, Julij, ROZMAN, Aleš, DOŠENOVIĆ BONČA, Petra
  Mortality, seasonal variation, and susceptibility to acute exacerbation of COPD in the pandemic year: a nationwide population study
  Therapeutic advances in respiratory disease. Jan./Dec. 2022, vol. 16, pp. 1-15

• PREVOLNIK RUPEL, Valentina, DOŠENOVIĆ BONČA, Petra
  Is value-based health care just the latest fad or can it transform the Slovenian health care system?
  Slovenian journal of public health. 2023, 62(2), pp. 55-58

• LOTRIČ DOLINAR, Aleša, ŽVAN, Bojana, DOŠENOVIĆ BONČA, Petra
  Productivity losses due to migraine in Slovenia: an analysis of absenteeism and presenteeism costs based on administrative and self-reported data
  Slovenian journal of public health. 2020, 59(2), pp. 75-82. ISSN 0351-0026.

• LOTRIČ DOLINAR, Aleša, DOŠENOVIĆ BONČA, Petra, SAMBT, Jože
  Longevity in Slovenia: past and potential gains in life expectancy by age and causes of death
  Slovenian journal of public health, ISSN 0351-0026. 2017, 52(2): 124-130

• DOŠENOVIĆ BONČA, Petra, TAJNIKAR, Maks
  Measuring the impact of innovations on efficiency in complex hospital settings
  South east European journal of economics and business, 2015, 10(2): 45-54

• DOŠENOVIĆ BONČA, Petra, MARINŠEK, Denis
  New insights into pharmaceutical price dynamics in Slovenia over the period 2001-2014
  Economic and business review, ISSN 1580-0466. 2017

• PONIKVAR, Nina, TAJNIKAR, Maks, DOŠENOVIĆ BONČA, Petra
  A small EU country attempting to exit the economic crisis: rediscovering the post Keynesian perspective on incomes and prices policy
  Journal of post Keynesian economics, ISSN 0160-3477, Fall 2013, vol. 36, no. 1, str. 153-173

• DOŠENOVIĆ BONČA, Petra
  Opredelitev in merjenje učinkovitosti v zdravstvu: primer slovenskih bolnišnic (efficiency in healthcare: the case of Slovenian hospitals)
  Ljubljana: Ekonomska fakulteta, 2014.