Search results for: Policy Analysis
Filter search results
Why Should Economic Evaluations of Medical Innovations Have a Societal Perspective?
1 October 2009
…cost benefit analysis to the payer perspective of cost-effectiveness analysis. Most voluntary and mandatory guidelines for evaluating medical innovation now encourage or require this narrower, budget-based payer perspective. As a…
The Ideas and Influence of Alan Williams: Be Reasonable – Do It My Way
1 February 2008
…implications of discriminating on the basis of gender or socio-economic status. Alan will perhaps best be remembered for his work within cost–benefit analysis. The quality-adjusted life year (QALY), born of…
Murder, Manslaughter and Infanticide
1 January 1976
During the last fifteen years the rate of homicides (which comprise all cases of murder, manslaughter and infanticide) occurring in England and Wales has doubled. Analysis of the ages of…
Applied Econometrics for Health Economists: A Practical Guide
1 January 2007
…in doing micro econometric research. The only study to deal with practical analysis of qualitative and categorical variables, it also emphasizes applied work, illustrating the use of relevant computer software…
Consumer Movement, Health, and the Pharmaceutical Industry
1 January 1983
…is supplemented by the data contained in the appendix. It then focuses more precisely on health care and medicine provision. The analysis provided highlights the special nature of pharmaceuticals as…
Private Health Care
1 July 1985
…NHS hospital service and the independent sector combined. The survey attempts, wherever possible, to take the analysis one stage further by partitioning services into the four possible combinations of private1…
Cholesterol and Coronary Heart Disease: Consensus or Controversy?
1 March 1991
The severe expression of cardiovascular and particularly coronary heart disease in the UK is a proper cause for concern. Analysis of its associations clearly shows the multifactorial – some would…
Value of the Pharmaceutical Industry to the UK Economy
1 June 1995
…analysis by economists, and provides a perspective within which the industry may be understood, and criticised, and assessed. Share this: Download publication Economists are well aware of” how cautious one…
Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
10 January 1996
…a postoperative thrombosis (Cordier, 1905). Lister (1927), in an analysis of the then current state of knowledge, observed that advancing age was an important risk factor for the development of…