Briefing
Briefings report OHE research and, on occasion, that of other experts.
From Efficacy to Cost-Effectiveness
1 May 1998
The advantage of such trials is high internal validity, i.e. relative freedom from dangers of confounding bias, as compared to other forms of research. Economic evaluations,…
Trends in Economic Evaluation
1 April 1998
The aim of this paper is to consider recent trends in the volume and characteristics of economic evaluation literature by interrogating the Health Economic Evaluations Database…
Health Financing and Pharmaceutical Policy Reform in the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe
12 January 1997
The objective of this report is to provide an assessment of the reform process of the health care sector in the Countries of Central and Eastern…
Regulating Prices Paid by the NHS for Medicines Supplied by the UK-Based Pharmaceutical Industry
1 October 1997
The aim of this paper is to review alternative methods of regulating the price of pharmaceuticals bought by the NHS from the perspective of the experience of the economic regulation of other industries in the UK, notably the privatised utilities.
The Pros and Cons of Modelling in Economic Evaluation
1 May 1997
The participants were: Professor Bernard Bloom. University of Pennsylvania, USA Professor Martin Buxton. Director of the Health Economics Research Group, University of Brunel, UK Professor Michael…
Handling Uncertainty in the Results of Economic Evaluation
1 September 1995
The recent increase in the number of published economic evaluations has been considerable [Wellcome, 1992; Udvarhelyi et al, 1992]. It is of some concern, however that…
The Impact of Behavioural and Biomedical Advance on Health Trends over the Next 25 Years
11 January 1994
Recent decades have seen a significant improvement in the health status of citizens in Western Europe and the USA. This is evident from death rate statistics…
Heath Information and the Consumer
5 January 1994
In the last decade society has become more health conscious than ever before. A major factor in this change of attitude is the widespread availability of…
The Impact of Unemployment on Health
1 July 1993
That there is a positive association between unemployment and a variety of measures of ill health is clear. What is less clear is how this association…