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The cost of inaction on LDL cholesterol
24 June 2026
…of good health costs around £3,800 through prevention, compared to £13,500 through treatment, yet only around 5.5% of EU healthcare expenditure is currently directed at preventive care. Detection as a…
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
…inform healthcare authorities; the creation of such an institution would therefore signal rigour and commitment on the part of healthcare authorities to better manage healthcare services, in line with the…
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
…or complementary health benefits. It is essential that health systems do not put all of their eggs in one basket. The rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) – known…
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…
The New NHS: What Can We Learn From Managed Care in New Zealand and the US?
1 July 1999
…service agreements relates closely to the New Zealand experimentation with integrated care pilots. • In conclusion, different countries need to develop flexible health care systems with the ability to adapt…