Economic Evaluation
Exploring the link between health and wealth in decision making
1 May 2013
Is the Link Between Health and Wealth Considered in Decision Making? Results from a Qualitative Study Is the Link Between Health and Wealth Considered in Decision…
NHS Outcomes, Performance and Productivity
3 March 2008
OHE established a Commission on NHS Outcomes, Performance and Productivity. It’s overall conclusion was that the collection and use of outcomes measures in the NHS is both practical and essential.
Activity Based Funding for Hospitals: English Policy, International Experience
1 October 2004
The material in this book is drawn from presentations and discussions at the conference “New Financial Flows for NHS Hospitals – Introducing Payment by Results in…
Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds: Economic and ethical issues
1 November 2002
The papers in this book are based on the proceedings of a workshop jointly organised by the OHE and the King’s Fund and hosted by the…
Interpreting and Addressing Inequalities in Health: From Black to Acheson to Blair to . . . ?
5 January 2002
This paper is an updated and expanded version of the 7th OHE annual lecture delivered on 1 June 2000. It takes account of research published up…
Productivity Costs: Principles and Practice in Economic Evaluation
11 January 2000
The Secretary of State for Health has recently described health care as a form of ‘social investment’ which is ‘of instrumental importance in improving national economic…
Risk Adjusting Health Care Resource Allocations
1 December 1999
Most health care systems are characterised by both purchasers (insurers, health authorities), who buy health care for a particular population, and providers (hospitals, primary care physicians),…
Public Involvement in Priority Setting
1 September 1999
International and UK experience illustrates the difficulty of involving the publica in health caare priority setting in ways that enable politicians, managers and doctors to incorporate…
Our Certain Fate: Rationing in Health Care
1 November 1998
Benjamin Franklin remarked in 1789 that ‘in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes’. To these two certainties the economist…