Search results for: Epidemiology and Public Health

A NICE Wind of Change? The What and So What of the NICE Methods Consultation

7 December 2020

…in England and beyond. These are described and recommended on in our recently published report (Rodes Sanchez, Henderson and Steuten, 2020). In conclusion, NICE proposed changes to address a number…

Around The World in HTAs: Thailand – An Ever-Evolving Policy Tool

9 September 2024

The health system in the country Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is not just a promise but a reality in Thailand. Renowned for its strong public health system, Thailand achieved UHC in 2002 and…

OHE Graduate School

…in Health Economics and Policy MSc in Health Economics   MSc in Economic Evaluation in Healthcare  Institute for Global Health, University College London (UCL)  Applicants must have confirmed admission to the…

Around the world in HTAs: China – From fragmentation to function

2 September 2025

…remained informal and fragmented.  In 2016 and 2017, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the National Health and Family Planning Commission (which is now the National Health…

OHE’s submission for the DHSC’s next 10 years of planning

9 December 2024

…consider how scarce resources are allocated in already over-stretched and under-funded health care systems. Choices and trade-offs in healthcare are literally a matter of health and death. Within this paradigm,…

Do child QALYs = adult QALYs? Five reasons why they might not

4 February 2020

…Can QALY gains from health interventions be directly compared between children and adults? Current approaches to health technology assessment (HTA), used around the world to inform health funding decisions, rely…

Understanding societal preferences for priority by disease severity in England & Wales

14 November 2024

…for more severe diseases in England and Wales. Members of the general population give priority at a substantially lower severity threshold, and the public assigns greater relative value to health…

Let’s talk about (health) inequalities

1 April 2022

…Cavill, Parker and Hammond (2020) adapted from Public Health Scotland (2021) How should ‘Health Inequalities’ be tackled? Fortunately, both reports (‘ NICE Listens’ and ‘ Attitudes to Inequalities’) showed that…

New OHE model estimates COVID-19 could be associated with costs of £7 billion a year in the UK, without annual autumn vaccinations   

13 October 2025

…day we work to improve health care through pioneering and innovative research, analysis, and education.   As a global thought leader and publisher in the economics of health, health care,…