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All 50 years of OHE publications now are available online

New: 50 Years of OHE Publications Are Available Online

2 April 2012

Today we celebrate OHE’s 2 April 1962 founding with the launch of our new archival website, ohematerials.org. This site contains OHE’s publications from 1962-2002. The most…

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Overview of the Economics of the Market for Medicines in the UK

29 March 2012

OHE’s Dr Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz is a visiting lecturer in the Department of Economics at City University London. As part of his 2012 activities, he recently gave…

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Can lessons from valuing health be useful in valuing development aid?

25 March 2012

Measuring and evaluating the impact of development aid is a perennial challenge. Various approaches have been tried. Since many have been aimed at donor needs and…

Discussing ways of valuing health and health care

Spotlight on OHE: Valuing Spillovers, End-of-Life Decisions and Hospital Outcomes

20 March 2012

OHE’s outside activities in early 2012 focused on spillovers, HTA decision making, and measuring health outcomes.

Using Happiness to Value Health

Allocating Resources Based on “Happiness” – OHE Lunchtime Seminar

16 March 2012

OHE’s invitational lunchtime seminar held March 14th featured the research of Prof Paul Dolan of the LSE on using measures of subjective wellbeing – “happiness” –…

They conclude that “pay-for-performance offers an important way forward to handle uncertainty around expected value in routine clinical practice”.

New: Pay-for-Performance for Drugs and Incentives for Innovation

27 February 2012

Interest is growing in schemes that involve “paying for pills by results”, that is, “paying for performance” rather than merely “paying for pills”. Despite its intuitive…

Prof Nancy Devlin

Analysing Hospital Variation at the Level of EQ-5D Dimensions

20 February 2012

Measuring and publishing hospital data on achieved health outcomes is becoming routine in many health care systems. League tables of hospital quality – based on post-surgical…

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What is the True Value of Spending on Medical Research?

13 February 2012

Over the past four years, OHE has been involved in research intended to examine more thoroughly the economic value of medical research in the UK. Understanding…

Adrian Towse and George Teeling-Smith

Join Us in Our 50th Anniversary Celebration!

7 February 2012

OHE has a number of exciting events and plans for 2012. Details in the full post.