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American Society of Health Economists (ASHE)
http://www.healtheconomics.us/
The American Society of Health Economists (ASHE) is a professional organisation that seeks to promote excellence in health economics research in the United States. It is an affiliate of the International Health Economics Association (iHEA) and provides a forum for emerging ideas and empirical results of health economics research. It holds regular meetings to disseminate current research results and provide a gathering place for the exchange of ideas between academic and non-academic health economists. ASHE also collaborates with related organisations. The website includes information on professional activities, job listings, a membership list, conference materials and news items (including a regular newsletter).
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Centre for Economics and Policy in Health
http://www.bangor.ac.uk/imscar/healtheconomics/
The Centre for Economics and Policy in Health is based at Bangor University and is is part of the multi-disciplinary Institute of Medical and Social Care Research (IMSCaR), within the College of Health and Behavioural Sciences (CoHaBS) at Bangor University. Their research interests include economic evaluation alongside clinical trials, pharmacoeconomics, health service evaluation and multidisciplinary links tackling locally relevant rural issues such as farmer health and Welsh language issues. The website includes details of current research projects, a listing of reports and publications and further details on the work of the Centre.
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Centre for Health Economics, University of York
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/che/
Based at the University of York, the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) specialises in health economics research. Its principal areas of research activity include: economic evaluation of health technologies; outcome measurement; primary care; community care and the determinants of health. Work in these areas covers many aspects of health and health care, including those with mental health problems, the elderly, people with AIDS and a variety of acute care procedures. Full details are given of all of the Centre's main research areas, together with information and contact details of individual projects. Other information includes: details of the CHE Statistical Services Group and the various datasets that are available; the Centre's publications; the work of the Centre's International Programme and the different training courses run by the Centre.
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Centre for Market and Public Organisation 
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/CMPO/
The Centre For Market And Public Organisation (CMPO) is based at the University of Bristol. It undertakes research into economic activities in the public sector, including the concept of choice in health and education. There are links to information about research topics covered by the centre and also full-text working papers which can be read using Adobe Acrobat. It receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust and ESRC.
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City Health Economics Centre (CHEC)
http://www.city.ac.uk/economics/research/chec/
The City Health Economics Centre (CHEC) is based in the Department of Economics at City University. Their work has a "strong basis in the discipline of economics and is informed by theoretical and empirical developments in microeconomics and econometrics, applied to health and health care". Research interests include the economic analysis of health policies, health outcomes measurement and valuation, health econometrics, economic evaluation in health care and the economics of public health. The website includes brief details about the Centre, including a staff list, a bibliography of publications, information on the teaching provided by the Centre and some information on health economics as a subject.
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Forum for health economics and policy
http://www.bepress.com/fhep/
Forum for health economics and policy is a peer reviewed journal published by the Berkeley Electronic Press. It publishes articles that lie at the intersection of health economics and health policy, that reflect the most pressing and timely subjects, such as biomedical research and the economy, and ageing and medical care costs. The Frontiers in Health Policy Research section of the journal publishes innovative research presented at the National Bureau of Economic Research's annual Frontiers in Health Policy Research Conference. Users can browse / search the archive of articles back to 1998, sign up for email / RSS updates of new articles and those with a subscription can download articles as PDF files.
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Health and Social Care Information Centre
http://www.ic.nhs.uk/
The Health and Social Care Information Centre is a special health authority, created in April 2005, to co-ordinate and streamline the collection and sharing of health and adult social care data. Information services include NHS Datasets Service, National Clinical Audit Support Programme (NCASP); statistical publications.
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Health Economics Network
http://healtheconomicsnetwork.pbwiki.com/
The Health Economics Network is a group of UK academics interested in the study of health economics. They aim to encourage and support teaching and learning in health economics, create a community of health economics teachers willing to share ideas, resources and expertise and promote health economics to potential students. This wiki lists participants in the Network, details past and forthcoming events, lists resources such as course outlines, teaching slides and assessment materials and also includes information for those thinking of studying health economics. The Health Economics Network is led by Professor Nancy Devlin of City University, in her role as an Associate of the Economics Network of the Higher Education Academy.
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Health Economics Research Unit
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/heru/
HERU, the Health Economics Research Unit, was established in 1977 within the Department of Community Medicine (now Public Health). HERU receives core funding from the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Office Department of Health, and also receives funding from competitive research grants and consultancy. The aims of HERU are to: 1. Research into economic approaches to health care 2. Develop economic techniques to be readily applied by economists and/or health care personnel 3. Demonstrate and test these approaches and techniques 4. Accumulate and make available to the health service a body of expertise in health economics. The site includes presentations, publications and links to related websites.
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Health Economists Study Group (HESG)
http://www.hesg.org.uk/
The Health Economists Study Group (HESG) supports and promotes the work of health economists. Founded in 1972 the Group has over 450 members and its members work in commercial, academic and government settings and its concerns are applied and policy orientated as well as theoretical. It is a network with an email list and website, plus it organises at least 2 meetings each year in different locations round the UK. The issues that they cover include economic evaluation, health outcome measurement, the finance and organisation of health care, consumer demand, industry behaviour (particularly hospitals and pharmaceutical companies) and behaviour of the labour market. The website contains further details about the work of HESG, with details of future meetings, a private area for members and links to related websites.
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Health publications : Adam Smith Institute
http://www.adamsmith.org/publications/health/
This site is maintained by free market think tank the Adam Smith Institute. It provides free access to the full-text of a collection of its pamphlets and reports which it has published on UK health care since 1999. Topics covered by this include health care funding, investment, funding and NHS budgets, public-private partnerships and health care. Full text publications are in PDF format.
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Healthecon-all
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=healthecon-all
Healthecon-all is an email superlist that deals with all the health economics related email lists provided as part of the JISCmail service. Typical postings include job vacancies, tables of content information from journals, pointers to current awareness information, conference and paper requests announcements and requests for information. As with all JISCmail lists there is a monthly archive of postings (in this case going back to 1998), RSS / Atom newsfeeds of posts, associated file upload areas and a search facility.
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HealthEconomics.Com
http://www.healtheconomics.com/
HealthEconomics.Com is a resource guide "devoted to internet resources focused on health outcomes and health care value". It is continuously updated by health economists and contains a world-wide list of resources on outcomes research, health economics, pharmacoeconomics, managed care, value in medicine, health-related quality of life, performance assessment, and quality of care. It is searchable by keyword and also contains a suggest a site feature, as well as, discussion forums for users.
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HERG: Health Economics Research Group
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/herg/
Based at Brunel University, HERG (Health Economics Research Group) aims to undertake high quality, policy relevant research and to contribute to the development of evaluation methodologies. The current research programme has a unifying focus on economic evaluation of health technologies. Across the range of applications run a number of common methodological issues including the nature and form of controls or comparisons, the measurement and valuation of benefits, and the integration of cost and benefit information. The site contains an abstracts' page of recent discussion papers and selected journal publications. Full details are given of the various courses run by HERG, staff and their research interests, recent publications (including abstracts) and information on current research projects. There is also a link to related health sites on the Internet.
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International Health Economics Association
http://www.healtheconomics.org/
iHEA, the International Health Economics Association, "has been formed to increase communication among health economists, foster a higher standard of debate in the application of economics to health and health care systems, and assist young researchers at the start of their careers." The website gives information about the Association, including membership details, and contains a worldwide directory of health economists as a searchable, online database. The site also provides access to back issues of HEAL, Health Economics Analysis Letters, the iHEA newsletter, which is published twice-yearly; and to eHEAL, Electronic Health Economics Analysis Letters: the iHEA Electronic Newsletter. . There are also links to other Health Economics sites around the world.
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King's Fund
http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/
The King's Fund is an independent health charity which exists to support the health of the people of London. Its website provides the latest information about King's Fund current research projects, publications and research findings and a useful section on key health topics. It includes news via the King's Fund's own press releases, funding information, links to other health-related sites and a list of future conferences, seminars and events in the health field. The website will be useful to anyone working in health, whether they are inside the NHS or working for voluntary agencies or social services, as well as interested observers. It will be valuable to doctors, nurses, managers, social workers, academics and service users.
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Personal Social Services Research Unit
http://www.pssru.ac.uk/
This is a multi-site unit, originally at the University of Kent, but now with branches also at the London School of Economics and the University of Manchester. The Unit's " mission is to conduct high quality research on social and health care to inform and influence policy, practice and theory." The site gives access to the Unit's research projects, which are mainly concerned with use of resources and looking at outcomes in community care. There are also links to publications of the unit: the Unit's Bulletin; monographs; chapters in books; discussion papers; and journal articles.
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School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR)
http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/
ScHARR "acts as a focus for health services research/health technology assessment within the University of Sheffield. ScHARR harnesses the strengths of a number of methodological teams including expertise in health services management, health services research, health economics, information science, operational research and statistics and conducts research in a broad variety of clinical settings including ageing, general practice, nursing, rehabilitation and mental health together with public health." It also has interests in undergraduate and postgraduate education and research. It is a constituent part of the Trent Institute for Health Services Research. The site includes lists of research and teaching, and lists of publications,some of which are available online.
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Social Science and Medicine
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/315/descriptio
This international, peer reviewed journal, published by Elsevier, is interdisciplinary, and covers aspects of health from a wide range of academic perspectives - including, anthropology, economics, education, ethics, geography, political science, psychology, social policy and sociology). It is also aimed at health professionals and contains material relevant to any of the professions concerned with physical and mental health, and with health care practice, policy and organisation. Tables of contents and abstracts may be obtained through Elsevier's website and its alerting services.
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State of Healthcare Reports
hhttp://www.cqc.org.uk/publications.cfm?widCall1=customDocManager.search_do
This webpage from the CareQuality Commission provides archival access to the State of Healthcare reports which were published annually by the Healthcare Commission till 2008. They report on the state of public health in Britain and the provision of services by NHS (National Health Service) bodies. The reports include statistical data on public health, disease and treatment rates, hospital waiting lists and on health investment and spending. They also include chapters on the provision and quality of services for the elderly, children and black and minority ethnic groups. There are also some international comparisons. The reports are in PDF format and users will require access to Adobe Acrobat Reader to access the full-text.
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Trends and Indicators in the Changing Health Care Marketplace: Chartbook
http://www.kff.org/insurance/loader.cfm?url=/commonspot/security/getfile.cf
This report is written by Larry Levitt and Jane Lundy and is a product of the Kaiser Changing Health Care Marketplace Project completed under the auspices of the Henry J. Kaiser Foundation, an independent health care organisation in the United States. This analysis provides an overview of the changing marketplace for US health care over the last 20 years. It covers health policy; the role of federal and state government; the rise in profit companies within the health care sector; the health insurance process and the changing information needs of stakeholders. There are 86 tables or graphs showing comparative health care data which are listed and easily browsed. The report is a PDF file.
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WHO : health economics
http://www.who.int/topics/health_economics/en/
Part of the World Health Organization (WHO) website, this page draws together descriptions of activities, reports, news and events, contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO subdivisions working on this topic. It covers subjects such as health systems financing, national health accounts, health financing policy, the economics of financing reproductive health and spending on health. It includes links to press releases, projects / programmes, publications, fact sheets, features and relates links / websites. The site is available in a range of languages.
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