Search results for: COVID-19 Research

Efficiency Measurement in Primary Care: Time to Overcome the Challenges and Achieve Some Gains

10 March 2021

…under the weight of the Covid-19 pandemic, and faced with the prospect of tackling a backlog of non-Covid-19 patients, there can be no more critical time to solve the efficiency…

Virtual OHE Annual Lecture 2021: Do Patents Work? Evidence from Pharmaceutical Innovation

14 October 2021, 1:00pm

The exceptional circumstances of COVID-19 revived the controversy around patents of pharmaceutical products. A group of specialists suggested that the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement should be…

Analysing Global Immunisation Expenditure

15 April 2025

…The latter impact has been most clearly demonstrated by COVID-19 vaccination programmes, which facilitated the easing of stay-at-home measures, enabling economic recovery and the reintroduction of social and workplace activities….

Developing a Conceptual Framework of Healthcare System Pressure

13 February 2024

…describe various challenges, long before the COVID-19 pandemic. Regardless of its common usage, a formal definition of healthcare system pressure (HCSP) is currently missing. Key takeaways The term ‘pressure’ has…

The Socioeconomic Burden Of Cervical Cancer in the UK: What are the benefits of achieving the WHO elimination target?

24 January 2024

…UK combined spending on immunisation and early detection programmes pre-COVID-19, and approximately 8% of the total UK pre-COVID-19 spending on preventative care. The UK could save approximately £2.6 billion by…

Foundation

…ensure evidence-based decision-making. Health Equity The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the stark health disparities across the world and going into 2023 these disparities are not going away. Health systems need to…

Interdependencies in Funding Medical Research in the UK

2 July 2014

…and nature of interdependence in the funding of cancer research. As earlier OHE research has demonstrated, sources of funding for medical research—public, charity and private sector—are complementary in effect, not…

Medical Research: How Long Does it Take?

10 February 2015

…groups of tracks, two of which contain the research (discovery research and human research/research review) and two of which cover the clinical practice and public policy developments that mean the…

Employer Costs from Respiratory Infections

16 December 2024

…2024b). In contrast to more chronic conditions, the direct impacts of respiratory infections (such as influenza, COVID-19 and RSV) tend to be self-limiting and shorter in nature, and therefore their…