Health Data and Statistics

Health statistics are used to understand risk factors for communities, track and monitor diseases, see the impact of policy changes and assess the quality and safety of health care.

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Adaptation to Health States: Sick Yet Better Off?

21 June 2017

OHE’s Patricia Cubi-Molla, joint with Mireia Jofre-Bonet and Victoria Serra-Sastre from City, University of London, have a new paper that examines adaptation to health states using…

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Invitation to OHE’s Annual Lecture 2017: Why are Mortality Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Non-Hispanic Americans? Could it Happen in Europe?

12 May 2017

OHE’s annual lecture 2017 will be held on Thursday 15 June at the Royal Society, London. The lecture will be given by Professors Anne Case and…

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Data Governance Arrangements for Real-World Evidence: South Korea

1 September 2017

In 2015, OHE published a report which set out the core principles that should govern how Real-World Data (RWD) is accessed or generated, and used credibly to generate Real-World Evidence (RWE), thereby working toward a set of “international standards”1.

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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…

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OHE Workshop: Surrogate Endpoints as Predictors of Overall Survival in Oncology

14 July 2016

On Tuesday 28th June 2016 OHE held a workshop on the topic of surrogate endpoints as predictors of overall survival in oncology. The workshop was commissioned…

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OHE Presentations at HTAi: Tokyo 2016

24 May 2016

The 2016 HTAi Annual Meeting was held in Tokyo, Japan, 10-14 May 2016. The focus of the meeting was Informing Health Care Decisions with Values and…

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New publication: The current and future burden of late-onset dementia in the UK: estimates and interventions

10 May 2016

A new publication, based on research conducted by OHE, suggests that by 2025 the disability adjusted life year (DALY) burden of dementia will have increased by…

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New Publication: Opportunity Costs and Local Health Service Spending Decisions – A Qualitative Study from Wales

26 April 2016

Work by Sarah Karlsberg Schaffer (OHE), Jon Sussex (RAND Europe), Dyfrig Hughes (Bangor University) and Nancy Devlin (OHE) has recently been published in BMC Health Services…

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How to Manage Data Governance in an Era of Real World Evidence (RWE): Working Towards a Set of International Standards

24 November 2015

A new OHE Consulting Report assesses information governance arrangements for real-world data in eight countries, and makes recommendations towards an ideal governance framework.