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Adult vaccination programmes deliver socio-economic benefits up to 19 times initial investment, according to new report

18 April 2024

Our new report examines the promise of prevention in healthcare and provides six key recommendations that could usher in a new era of optimised prevention.

The Socioeconomic Burden Of Cervical Cancer in the UK: What are the benefits of achieving the WHO elimination target?

24 January 2024

Cervical cancer imposes a substantial burden on patients, their support networks, the NHS, and society at large. This report underscores the significant socioeconomic savings that can be achieved by reaching the WHO’s elimination goal of 4 cases per 100,000 women, providing further impetus to take action to reach the ambitious 2040 elimination target set by NHS England.

Closing the ‘Know-Do’ Gap for Health Systems Reform at the Policy Level

1 April 2020

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has become quite skilled at promoting what changes are desirable in health care systems, and why, but has largely left how…

The WHO Technical Report on the Pricing of Cancer Medicines: Missing a central role for HTA and value assessment

1 April 2019

The WHO Technical Report: Pricing of cancer medicines and its impacts (“the Report”) was published in order to address requests made in a resolution adopted by…

A Critique of the Paper “The Estimated Costs of Production and Potential Prices for the World Health Organization Essential Medicines List”

1 May 2018

This OHE Consulting Report reviews “Estimated costs of production and potential prices of medicines for the World Health Organization Essential Medicines List” (Hill et al., 2018)…

Mental Health Economics and Policy in a Global Context

1 December 2003

The purpose of the conference was to locate and promote the role of health economics in mental health policy in low and middle income countries. Health…