Health Care Systems
Health care systems organise the finance and delivery of health care. They vary by country, reflecting specific history, culture, and economics. To maximise coverage and efficiency they must evolve with changing demographics, needs, and technologies.
OHE at HESG Winter 2017: Meet the Team
22 December 2016
The HESG Winter 2017 Conference is to be held in Birmingham from 4th to 6th January 2017. Several members of the OHE team will be attending…
Presentations and Posters from ISPOR Europe 2016
24 November 2016
ISPOR’s 19th Annual European Congress was held in Vienna, 29 October – 2 November 2016. Several members of the OHE team attended and contributed to the…
New Publication: Bibliometric Trends of Health Economic Evaluation in Sub-Saharan Africa
8 November 2016
A new study which explores the relationship between sub-Saharan African authors and their respective co-authors has been published in Globalization and Health. The study was a…
OHE at ISPOR Europe 2016: Risk-sharing, Differential Pricing, the Cancer Drugs Fund, and Patient Reported Outcomes
26 October 2016
ISPOR’s 19th Annual European Congress is scheduled for 29 October – 2 November 2016 in Vienna. This post contains a summary of the contributions by various…
Invitation to OHE’s 2016 Annual Lecture with Dame Sally Davies: 10 Years of NIHR: Achievements and Challenges for the Next Decade – 7 November 2016
19 October 2016
OHE’s annual lecture 2016 will be held on Monday 7 November at the Royal College of Physicians, London. The lecture will be given by Professor Dame…
Contract Theory: Nobel Offerings to Health Economics
11 October 2016
The Nobel in Economics was awarded to Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström for their research on Contract Theory. This blog reviews the contributions of contract theory…
New Report Published: Improving Efficiency and Resource Allocation in Future Cancer Care
26 September 2016
The Office of Health Economics (OHE) and the Swedish Institute for Health Economics (IHE) publish a report evaluating the efficiency of resource allocation in cancer care…
OHE is Pleased to Host Four MSc Students for 2016
26 July 2016
OHE is pleased to be working with four MSc students this year. The students, from City University and the London School of Economics, will spend three…
New OHE Seminar Briefing: Waiting Time Policies in the Health Sector: What Works?
30 June 2016
On 16th September 2015 Professor Luigi Siciliani led an OHE lunchtime seminar on waiting time policies in the health sector. The seminar briefing is now available.