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The Economics of Health in a Shifting Climate: Insights from the 2023 Annual Lecture
26 September 2023
…crisis on our health The involvement of health economics is integral in grasping the interplay between climate and health to ascertain how health care markets can transition towards sustainability. Identifying…
Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Gene Therapies for Inherited Eye Disease: Are Current Discounting Approaches Too Short-sighted?
15 February 2023
…apply not only to the future costs but also to the future health effects associated with an intervention. This is because healthcare transforms money and other resources into health. As…
Efficiency Measurement in Primary Care: Time to Overcome the Challenges and Achieve Some Gains
10 March 2021
…the health of patients varies across different types of health care services (e.g. consultations versus surgical procedures); or the same health service may impact the health of patients differently depending…
Looking Further Afield – What Can Health Economics Learn from the Environmental Economics Approach to Discounting?
1 February 2024
…Wong, O., 2019. Advanced therapy medicinal products and health technology assessment principles and practices for value-based and sustainable healthcare. The European Journal of Health Economics, 20(3), pp.427–438. 10.1007/s10198-018-1007-x. Khorasani, E.,…
The case for adopting a broader perspective on value in Health Technology Assessment
3 March 2026
…these may be overstated or otherwise manageable: CONCERN RESPONSE The primary objective of healthcare should be to produce (patient) health, not societal welfare. An overly-narrow focus can mean that health…
Reforming Primary Health Care in Middle-Income Countries: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
18 July 2022
…constructed facility-level health outcomes, the authors estimate the effect of crucial reforming interventions on facility-level health outcomes related to family planning, maternal health, and child health. The Confrontation In 1997,…
Environmental sustainability in the NHS 10 Year Health Plan: The need for green
29 September 2025
…crisis intensifies, the environmental sustainability and climate resilience of healthcare must be recognised as a core components of public health strategy – not peripheral concerns. The connection between health systems,…
Prevention in the NHS 10 Year Health Plan: Promise, limits, and the path forward
17 September 2025
…and with varying impacts on health outcomes. Proposed government plans such as the genomic population health service which commits to universal newborn genomic testing, demonstrates a complex intervention spanning primary…
The changing role of the NHS over time
14 August 2023
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