Publications
Improving the Fiscal and Political Sustainability of Health Systems through Integrated Population Needs-Based Planning
6 January 2015
It is often argued that the demands for increased healthcare expenditure arising from an ageing population, advancing technologies, and increasing expectations, warrant higher healthcare budgets. Professor…
International Comparison of Medicines Usage: Quantitative Analysis from a Swedish Perspective
1 May 2015
The OHE undertook an analysis of the uptake of medicines in 13 high income countries. The UK perspective on this was published in November 2014 by…
International Decision Support Initiative (iDSI): Mapping of priority-setting in health in 17 low and middle countries across Asia, Latin America, and Africa
1 April 2015
This mapping of priority-setting considers factors such as existence of HTA institutions and commitment to UHC (Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa,…
A Framework for Payer Assessment of the Value of New Technologies: A US Approach
1 March 2015
Dr Steven Pearson has convened a US policy workgroup of payers, drug and device manufacturers, patients’ groups, and clinician specialty societies to help develop a “value…
Assessing the Use of Multi-indication Medicines: A Review of Current Data Capabilities in the UK
1 March 2015
A new OHE Consulting Report considers the data capabilities in the UK for monitoring medicine use according to indication using real world data. A new OHE…
Do Respondents Completing Abstract, Hypothetical Priority-setting Exercises Agree With the Policy Implications of Their Choices?
1 February 2015
Stated preference studies are increasingly being used to understand people’s views about the relative importance of different criteria for making health care priority setting decisions. Stated…
An Investigation of the Feasibility and Cultural Appropriateness of Stated Preference Methods to Generate EQ-5D-5L Values in the United Arab Emirates
1 February 2015
No EQ-5D-5L value sets are currently available in the Middle East to inform decision making in the region’s health care systems. This study tests the feasibility…
Incentives to follow Best Practice in Health Care
1 February 2015
There has been long-standing interest in the use of incentives to encourage delivery of high-quality health care services at the lowest feasible cost. There has been…
Universal Health Coverage: The Holy Grail?
1 January 2015
The 21st OHE Annual Lecture was given Professor Anne Mills, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, on the subject of Universal Health Coverage in low-…