Search results for: Healthcare Systems
Filter search results
Hypothecated Health Taxes: An evaluation of recent proposals
1 January 1995
The subject of earmarked or hypothecated taxes dropped out of the mainstream of public finance theory a great many years ago. It is doubtful whether many of today’ s economists…
Controlling NHS Expenditure: The Impact of Labour’s NHS White Papers
1 December 1998
The English, Scottish and Welsh National Health Service (NHS) White Papers published by the government in December 1997 and January 1998, have changed the tone of NHS policy. Co-operation is…
Health Expenditure in the UK
1 May 1986
Share this: Download publication Robert Chew In the UK in 1984 the combined expenditure on health care services by both the public and private sectors rose to a record total…
OHE Annual Lecture: Universal Health Coverage: the Holy Grail?
8 June 2014, 11:00pm
…The health systems of most other high income countries similarly embody the ideal of universal health coverage. Yet low- and lower-middle-income countries have recently been on the receiving end of…
Spotlight on OHE: Measuring Preferences, HTA Benchmarking, Value-Based Pricing, and Rationing
13 October 2011
…he discussed the use by payers of willingness-to-pay based cost-effectiveness thresholds as an efficient form of indirect pricing in third party payer systems and the use of ‘prizes’ to stimulate…
Analysing Hospital Variation at the Level of EQ-5D Dimensions
20 February 2012
Measuring and publishing hospital data on achieved health outcomes is becoming routine in many health care systems. League tables of hospital quality – based on post-surgical survival rates, for example…
OHE has an Opening for an Economist — Consultancy and Research
23 May 2012
…research and consultancy activities. Our work covers a broad range of analyses into the economics and policy of: (1) health care systems, (2) pharmaceutical and other life sciences industries, and…
Spotlight on OHE: Making Health Care Choices and Decisions
7 January 2013
OHE’s research and consulting captures a range of key issues that affect how health care systems are organised and how decisions are made within them. For example, how far to…
Spotlight on OHE: Understanding Value Based Pricing
12 February 2013
Value based pricing (VBP) is increasingly common in health care systems worldwide. OHE continues to make important contributions to the debate about VBP approaches and application through its research, publications…