Search results for: Health Care Systems

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…

Policy, Organisation and Incentives in Health Systems

…possible value from their budgets available. Another concern of most health systems is to address health inequalities. Thus, health systems require incentivising policies that aim to deliver high-quality health care…

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,…

Part 2: 2010 Lecture on US Health Reform

27 July 2010

…Stanford University’s Center for Health Policy and its Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research at the School of Medicine.  His presentation, ‘US Healthcare Reform: Monumental Health System Transformation or Fatally…

The Economics of Innovation in Times of Pandemic: How to Incentivise the Development, Supply, and Continuous Improvement of Innovative Solutions to Fight COVID-19?

22 May 2020

…Competing follow-on technologies will offer better or complementary health benefits. It is essential that health systems do not put all of their eggs in one basket. The colossal health and…

Office of Health Economics latest research estimates 20 people a day die in unrelieved pain in the UK in the last 3 months of their lives

26 November 2024

…about how the healthcare system should prepare for changing levels of demand. Even assuming hospice-level care (assumed to be the highest standard of palliative care available), 6,104 people in England…

Part 1: 2010 Lecture on US Health Reform

20 July 2010

Each year, OHE sponsors an Annual Lecture that examines an important issue in health care. In late June, Dr Alan Garber spoke on US health care reform. This is the…