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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…
Using Competition with Care: Comment on the Revised Regulations for the NHS
19 March 2013
…with other health care services, health-related services, or social care services); or by co-operation between the persons who provide the services in order to improve the quality of the services….
Around The World in HTAs: Italy – What’s Next?
20 April 2023
…benefit package (Livelli Essenziali di Assistenza) defined at central level. Regions regulate, organise and deliver health care, through public and accredited private health care organisations. Policies affecting the relationships between…
New: Using Happiness to Value Health
9 November 2011
…health care. His perspective is that the end-point of providing health care should not be health itself but, rather, the impact that health states have on overall subjective wellbeing, or…
Limits to Using QALYs in Cancer
3 August 2010
…ill health and healthy individuals’ perceptions of their own abilities to adapt. Overall, using the general public to value health states may overvalue interventions aimed at achieving perfect health and undervalue those…