Search results for: Healthcare Systems

international Decision Support Initiative (iDSI): Mapping of Priority-setting in Health in 17 Low and Middle Income Countries Across Asia, Latin America and Africa

22 April 2015

…vision of increased public financing and provision of healthcare, with explicit priority-setting recognised as a crucial means of ensuring sustainable UHC. Leaders in all four countries have expressed a strong…

New OHE Publication: Model of Behaviour within Fuzzy Budget Constraints

23 December 2015

…(HSDMs) who make resource allocation decisions on the level and mix of healthcare production, while taking into consideration the maximum expenditure (budget) allowed by the government or the health system…

OHE Appoints Principal Health Economist: Dr Alastair Fischer

14 March 2016

…of areas: the development of a new way of sampling for the Australian Bureau of Statistics; and the analysis of voting systems; the diffusion of innovations and experimental economics. Alastair…

Opportunities for Utilising ‘Real World Data’ in South Korea

20 October 2017

…South Korea, which operates a single-payer health insurance system. Patients’ utilisation of healthcare resources are captured readily through claims databases, operated by the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) and the…

New Drugs to Tackle Antimicrobial Resistance: Breaking the European Deadlock: Part 1 – Defining Objectives

25 May 2023

…a year due to resistant bacteria. AMR is estimated to be costing the EU €1.5 billion per year in healthcare costs and productivity losses. New drugs are needed, as existing…

Economics of Innovation

…design. Our work encompasses the perspectives of patients, industry, investors, payers, healthcare system decision makers, and policymakers.  We maintain a global outlook, recognising that the health technology industry is international and…

Pharmacogenomics Testing: A Crucial Piece to Unlocking the Full Value of Medicines

5 June 2025

…do not deliver their intended therapeutic benefits for the individuals taking them—due to genetic variations. Despite the tremendous benefits that innovative medicines have brought to patients, health systems, and society,…

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…

Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds and Expert Elicitation: a Bridge Too Far?

29 April 2021

…technologies (e.g. drugs and medical devices) in many health systems is informed by cost-effectiveness analysis, comparing the incremental gains from a new technology against best alternative uses of that money….