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Contract Theory: Nobel Offerings to Health Economics
11 October 2016
…contract theory has guided policies aimed at improving health care systems’ performance. Contract theory is relevant to the implementation of co-payments in a health care system, how we incentivise health…
OHE Lunchtime Seminar and Webinar with Professor David Grabowski: Interventions that Encourage High-Value Nursing Home Care: Lessons for the UK
21 March 2017
…knock-on implications of supply shortages for “bed blocking” in the NHS add to the challenges for our health and social care systems, as do admissions to hospitals from nursing homes…
HTAi Asia Policy Forum Briefing Papers: Value and Affordability, Transferability, and Delivery of High Quality HTA for Decision Making
2 May 2017
…Technology Assessment International (HTAi) Asia Policy Forum (HAPF) was held in November 2016. The HAPF meetings are attended by participants from: HTA and payer systems in Asian countries; pharmaceutical and…
Assessing Value, Budget Impact, and Affordability in Asia
10 July 2017
…and payer systems in Asian countries; pharmaceutical and medical device companies with interest and expertise in Asia; invited experts; and the organisers. The paper reports that: All systems consider health…
Invitation to OHE’s Annual Lecture 2018: Is There an Economic Case for Investing in the NHS? Really?
11 July 2018
…in finance ministries and some sections of the media – that health systems such as the NHS are ‘black holes’, constantly demanding increased funding without concomitant returns to society. The…
Accountable Health Care: Is it compatible with social solidarity?
1 February 1998
…pursued by, say, the British National Health Service or the government-run Canadian health-insurance system, one cannot compare market-driven health systems with these government-run systems in terms of their relative ‘efficiency’….
National Health Service Reorganisation: Learning from History?
1 January 1998
…to other parts of the economy. According to this account, even the most successful western economies have lapsed into a seemingly permanent malaise about their health care systems. Professor Reinhardt…
Managing to do Better: General Practice in the 21st Century
1 July 2000
Health systems the world over are striving to manage their available resource to deliver the best value for the public’s health. For most nations, the general medical practitioner (GP) is…
New Business Models for Antibiotics. What Can We Learn from Other Industries?
7 April 2015
…is currently a thin global pipeline. This has spurred governments worldwide to seek approaches for encouraging innovation in antibiotics. Many groups within the healthcare arena are seeking solutions to…