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Contract Theory: Nobel Offerings to Health Economics

11 October 2016

…contract theory has guided policies aimed at improving health care systems’ performance. Contract theory is relevant to the implementation of co-payments in a health care system, how we incentivise health…

In Memoriam Adam Wagstaff 1959-2020

15 May 2020

…(see Wagstaff’s diagram of Grossman’s model, for instance); issues of health, poverty and the measurement of equity; the importance of universal health care; the efficient financing of health systems; health…

Policy, Organisation and Incentives in Health Systems

…possible value from their budgets available. Another concern of most health systems is to address health inequalities. Thus, health systems require incentivising policies that aim to deliver high-quality health care…

Universal Health Coverage: The Holy Grail? 21st Annual Lecture Publication.

31 January 2015

…treatment, was the foundation stone for the creation of the National Health Service. The health systems of most other high income countries similarly embody the ideal of universal health coverage….

New OHE Publication Compares 3L and 5L Versions of EQ-5D as Measures of General Population Health

10 November 2015

…population health. A paper by OHE’s Yan Feng, Nance Devlin and Mike Herdman has recently been published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. The paper compares the 3L and…

OHE is Pleased to Host Four MSc Students for 2016

26 July 2016

…valuation of health for children, using the generic health-related quality of life instrument: the EQ-5D, and the youth-version of this instrument (EQ-5D-Y). Currently, national value set studies all obtain health…

Factors Which May Affect Expenditure on Health

1 July 1965

…as effective medical care reduced the volume of ill health in the community.… When the National Health Service was first planned it was thought that apart from the effects of…

Private Provision of Publicly Funded Health Care: The Economics of Ownership

10 September 2018

…health care providers in a publicly funded health care system, statements such as “public good, private bad”, or the other way about, are misplaced. All health care providers, both public…

National Health Service Reorganisation: Learning from History?

1 January 1998

…most sensitive indicators of the state of the health care system. A brief glance at the chronology of reorganisation of health care in Britain confirms the sense of gathering insecurity…