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Climate action is health action: OHE’s focus on sustainability
22 July 2025
…They focused on key barriers including overlooked mental health effects, the lack of individual agency and resource constraints among healthcare workers, and the need for comprehensive data linking healthcare practices…
Looking Further Afield – What Can Health Economics Learn from the Environmental Economics Approach to Discounting?
1 February 2024
…Wong, O., 2019. Advanced therapy medicinal products and health technology assessment principles and practices for value-based and sustainable healthcare. The European Journal of Health Economics, 20(3), pp.427–438. 10.1007/s10198-018-1007-x. Khorasani, E.,…
Health Services in Western Europe
5 January 1963
Britain is not unique in having a health service. Practically every European country has accepted the provision of medical care as a community responsibility. Amongst the sixteen countries in Western…
OHE Lunchtime Seminar: Closing the ‘Know-Do’ Gap for Health Systems Reform at the Policy Level
13 October 2019, 11:00pm
…overcome these challenges, health systems across countries are looking to similar solutions – improving population health, patient-centeredness, strengthening integrated care, and overcoming fragmentation. However, while ‘whys’ and ‘whats’ for transformation…
Rare Disease Day 2024: Why Do We Care About Rare?
29 February 2024
…The central aim is to advocate for equitable acces s to diagnosis, treatment, care, and social opportunities. So, why is this needed? Because access to diagnosis, treatment, care, and social…
Private Health Care
1 July 1985
…mix in health care and avoiding confusion in the debate on ‘privatisation’. To do this, it is necessary to look at individual elements of health care. Since, however, markets do…
2014 Annual Lecture: Is Universal Health Care Coverage the Holy Grail?
7 May 2014
…Health Care: the Holy Grail? Health services available to the whole population free of charge, and providing the best health advice and treatment, was the foundation stone for the creation…
Private Provision of Publicly Funded Health Care: The Economics of Ownership
10 September 2018
…health care providers in a publicly funded health care system, statements such as “public good, private bad”, or the other way about, are misplaced. All health care providers, both public…
‘HispaNICE’: the Creation of an ‘Independent Authority for the Evaluation of Health Practices and Policies’ Gathers Momentum
24 February 2021
…of health care practices and policies, analogous to England’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellent ( NICE). The manifesto was signed by prominent experts from a number of sectors,…