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Mental Handicap
1 September 1973
…be in some ways disadvantaged as compared with their contemporaries and so considered to be mentally handicapped. A more precise definition of mental handicap would be difficult to establish. It…
Let’s talk about (health) inequalities
1 April 2022
…care services. Therefore, NICE can tackle inequalities in health outcomes associated to environmental or individual factors within the remit of health care, public health, and social care services. From Figure…
Around The World in HTAs: Thailand – An Ever-Evolving Policy Tool
9 September 2024
The health system in the country Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is not just a promise but a reality in Thailand. Renowned for its strong public health system, Thailand achieved UHC in 2002 and…
OHE submission to the UK Parliamentary Inquiry on an Ageing Society
20 May 2025
…this change, it is critical that we shift how we think about health across our lifecycles. The focus should shift from illness care to health care: being prepared to prevent,…
OHE Announces New Trustees and Board Chair
10 January 2022
…economics, and public health economics. He has published extensively on these topics including in leading field journals like Health Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Medical Decision Making, Social Science &…
New: Using Happiness to Value Health
9 November 2011
…health care. His perspective is that the end-point of providing health care should not be health itself but, rather, the impact that health states have on overall subjective wellbeing, or…
Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Gene Therapies for Inherited Eye Disease: Are Current Discounting Approaches Too Short-sighted?
15 February 2023
…apply not only to the future costs but also to the future health effects associated with an intervention. This is because healthcare transforms money and other resources into health. As…
The Economics of Health in a Shifting Climate: Insights from the 2023 Annual Lecture
26 September 2023
…crisis on our health The involvement of health economics is integral in grasping the interplay between climate and health to ascertain how health care markets can transition towards sustainability. Identifying…
OHE’s submission for the DHSC’s next 10 years of planning
9 December 2024
…consider how scarce resources are allocated in already over-stretched and under-funded health care systems. Choices and trade-offs in healthcare are literally a matter of health and death. Within this paradigm,…