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New Report Published: Improving Efficiency and Resource Allocation in Future Cancer Care
26 September 2016
The Office of Health Economics (OHE) and the Swedish Institute for Health Economics (IHE) publish a report evaluating the efficiency of resource allocation in cancer care across Europe. Treatments for…
Incentives to follow Best Practice in Health Care
1 February 2015
…high-quality health care services at the lowest feasible cost. Although it is clear that health care professionals have intrinsic incentives to deliver high-quality care to patients, there are significant variations…
Theory and Evidence on Cost Sharing in Health Care: An Economic Perspective
1 December 1997
Faced with the growing pressures on health care budgets, policy makers around the world have turned to different forms of direct charging for health services. However, because it is rare…
Does Free Personal Care for the Elderly Reduce Informal Caregiving?
25 February 2013
…quarter of the total population. This will seriously challenge the ability of the NHS and the social care system to meet the health care needs of the elderly. The ageing…
Around The World in HTAs: India – Let All Be Healthy
29 June 2023
The health care system in India Health services in India are delivered through a complex multi-payer healthcare system, including both the private and public sectors. Most of the rural and…
Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds and Expert Elicitation: a Bridge Too Far?
29 April 2021
…A., 2015. Local health care expenditure plans and their opportunity costs. Health Policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 119(9), pp.1237–1244. 10.1016/j.healthpol.2015.07.007. Karlsberg Schaffer, S., Sussex, J., Hughes, D. and Devlin, N., 2016. Opportunity…
Trends in European Health Spending
5 January 1981
…health care in the European Community rose from about 4.1 per cent to… In Europe, as in other developed countries, health expenditures have recently been rising proportionately faster than national…
Published in Health Economics: the Effect of Free Personal Care for the Elderly on Informal Caregiving
17 March 2015
Just published in Health Economics is an article by OHE’s Sarah Karlsberg Schaffer that estimates the effect of free personal care on the supply of informal care. In Scotland, since…
OHE Lunchtime Seminar: Cascades of Care in Health Policy Analysis and Planning
26 March 2019
‘Cascades of care’ have emerged as an attractive tool for assessing access to care for numerous chronic diseases. Dr Haacker will examine the use of cascades of care across diseases…