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Health Care Dilemma or ‘Am I kranken, doctor?’
1 August 1975
…spite of National Health Service expenditure having doubled in real terms and in… For the past 25 years the problems of the National Health Service in Britain have been considered…
Around The World in HTAs: Egypt – The Road Ahead
31 July 2023
The health care system in Egypt Universal health coverage is a 2030 target for the Egyptian government, yet the Egyptian health care system is complex and fragmented, with various disparate…
Health Systems Performance Assessment
1 April 2006
Annual lecture by Christopher Murray, who speaks in the UK about the work on health systems performance assessment (HSPA) at the World Health Organization. He gives some reflections on this…
Health Services in Europe: 1988
1 September 1988
…different ways of accepting both the cost of health care and its provision as a community responsibility. It became clear from the OHE booklet that health care could be provided…
Cheap and Dirty: The Effect of Contracting Out Cleaning on Efficiency and Effectiveness
6 March 2019
…core services. Examples of core services include health care and education, while their accompanying auxiliary services are, respectively, hospital cleaning and school meals. Atkinson (1984) argues that cleaning in health…
The Effect of Free Personal Care for the Elderly on Informal Caregiving
1 February 2013
…six million informal carers. Debates about whether to increase state assistance to the elderly have included concerns that this could reduce the amount of care from such personal care givers,…
Health Care Research Expenditure
1 June 1978
…readily identifiable contributions it may be estimated that total health care research spending… In the financial year 1976-77 over £220 million was spent on health care research in the United…
Recently Published: Local Health Care Expenditure Plans and their Opportunity Costs
8 September 2015
Recently published in Health Policy is an article by Sarah Karlsberg Schaffer, Jon Sussex, Nancy Devlin and Andrew Walker entitled “Local health care expenditure plans and their opportunity costs”. Recently…
OHE Announces New Trustees and Board Chair
10 January 2022
…economic evaluations in health care covering topics like optimal decision rules, normative foundations of economic evaluations in health, measurement and valuation of informal care and productivity costs, incorporating equity considerations…