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Tracking Changes in the Causes of Death in England and Wales

25 October 2012

OHE’s health and health care statistics service long has been respected as a source of reliable data. In an OHE Briefing just published, OHE uses this data to take a…

Opportunities for Utilising ‘Real World Data’ in South Korea

20 October 2017

…South Korea, which operates a single-payer health insurance system. Patients’ utilisation of healthcare resources are captured readily through claims databases, operated by the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) and the…

Around The World in HTAs: The Slovak Republic – Valuing the Future

13 September 2023

The healthcare system in the Slovak Republic The Slovak Republic has universal basic health coverage based on a compulsory health insurance scheme. Health insurance companies (HICs) contract directly with healthcare…

Measurement of Health

1 June 1985

Expenditure on health care is continuing to rise in all Western countries, both in total and as a percentage of gross national product (Table 1). This has underlined the political…

The Evolution of HTA in Emerging Markets Health Care Systems: Analysis to Support a Policy Response

1 January 2011

This report examines and makes suggestions for the appropriate use of health technology assessment (HTA) in emerging markets. In particulary, it considers how the stage of development of the health…

Spotlight on OHE: NICE, Biosimilars, HTA

17 June 2014

…poster presentation demonstrated the variety of approaches across countries and the importance of HTA. Comparison of Health Care Systems in Latin America: Pharmaceuticals Villafuerte 2014 from Office of Health Economics…

David Parkin

30 August 2023

David Parkin is Honorary Visiting Professor in the Economics Department at City, University of London. He is an economist who has specialised in health and health care for his entire…

Measuring and Valuing Outcomes

…treatment funding decisions and broader health policies using person trade-off (PTO) and constant-sum paired comparisons (CSPC) Patient and carer utility (vignette) studies to inform health economic models using time trade-off…

Medical Research: How Long Does it Take?

10 February 2015

…interventions, better ways to organise health services, and numerous other kinds of health care technology improvement.   We identified a need for a more consistent frame of reference for measuring…