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Willingness to Pay and Publicly Funded Health Care: Contradiction in Terms?
1 November 2011
Because health care resources always are scarce, decisions about what (and what not) to pay for cannot be avoided. Deciding how to value health and aspects of health care continue…
Diabetes: a Model for Health Care Management
10 January 1989
…international problem by the World Health Organisation. Professor Hoet, father of the present… Since the Office of Health Economics first published a paper about diabetes 25 years ago a great…
Ethical Goals and Design Criteria for ‘Fair Access” to Drugs in the US Health Care System
31 March 2021
…improve the quality of life; and second, the need to make healthcare affordable, and to manage resources fairly within the budget constraints that exist throughout the entire health system. Nowhere…
Spotlight on OHE: Value Footprint of Oncology Treatments, Treating Obstructive Sleep Apnoea and Sources of Motivation in Health Care Organisations
4 August 2015
The blog provides links to slide sets and posters relating to the value footprint of oncology treatments, treating obstructive sleep apnoea and sources of motivation in health care organisations. Speaking…
Maynard Matters: A New Publication Covering Alan Maynard’s Contribution to Global Health Economics
13 January 2017
…new pieces by leading health economists with extracts from Alan Maynard’s work on efficiency and equity, quality and outcomes, health care financing, markets and competition, workforce, primary care budget holding,…
The Humble Economist: Tony Culyer on Health, Health Care and Social Decision Making
1 November 2012
…founding father of health economics. It distils a powerful set of ideas that have profoundly influenced health policy and decision making, and shows how reason and evidence can be used…
Heath Information and the Consumer
5 January 1994
…health of society as a whole, and the importance of health information from a variety of sources (the media, the Health Education Authority, voluntary organisations and health service personnel) in…
Public Preferences for Health Gains and Cures: A Discrete Choice Experiment
22 January 2019
…were included to describe the alternatives: life expectancy with current care, quality of life with current care, increase in life expectancy with new treatment, increase in quality of life with…
Mental Health Economics and Policy in a Global Context
1 December 2003
…health policy in low and middle income countries. Health economists have a growing voice in health policy development. But just as it is only recently that mental health policy specifically…