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…evaluation to healthcare markets, healthcare programs, public health policies, and healthcare interventions. Apart from working in hospital settings, health economists are commonly found in universities, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers,…

OHE is Pleased to Host Four MSc Students for 2016

26 July 2016

…Community Mental Health Survey for the 2010-2013 period, which is completed by over 13,000 adult users of English mental health services per year. The survey is conducted by the Care…

A Prescription for Green Healthcare Delivery: Insights from an Expert Sustainability Webinar

19 July 2023

…reaching beyond the healthcare sector to include governmental departments, environmental agencies, and biological and environmental sciences, to capture a wider range of environmental effects beyond carbon emissions? Addressing Scope 3…

Do child QALYs = adult QALYs? Five reasons why they might not

4 February 2020

…Can QALY gains from health interventions be directly compared between children and adults? Current approaches to health technology assessment (HTA), used around the world to inform health funding decisions, rely…

Assessing the Life-cycle Value of Second-generation Antipsychotics in Sweden and the UK

17 July 2019

…(health services) and indirect (productivity) costs (per year € 2017) of risperidone (SGA) and haloperidol (FGA). Using a comparator from the inferior class, we proxied the incremental value added by…

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…influence reimbursement decisions and adoption of innovations within healthcare systems. Global Health and Development Organisations: Health economics plays a role in global health initiatives. Organisations like the World Health Organization…

Efficiency Measurement in Primary Care: Time to Overcome the Challenges and Achieve Some Gains

10 March 2021

…the health of patients varies across different types of health care services (e.g. consultations versus surgical procedures); or the same health service may impact the health of patients differently depending…

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

29 April 2021

…A., 2015. Local health care expenditure plans and their opportunity costs. Health Policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 119(9), pp.1237–1244. 10.1016/j.healthpol.2015.07.007. Karlsberg Schaffer, S., Sussex, J., Hughes, D. and Devlin, N., 2016. Opportunity…

Assessing the Productivity Value of Vaccines in Health Technology Assessment: Worth a Shot?

17 September 2020

…reducing absenteeism and presenteeism among health care professionals, most of these benefits fall outside the health care system. From a governmental perspective, productivity losses per worker translate into lost revenue…