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bmj.com collected resources : health economics
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/collection/health_economics
Collected resources on health economics from the online British Medical Journal. BMJ collections list the most recent BMJ articles (usually with links to the full-text) in a subject area or speciality, and also link to relevant books and journals from the BMJ Publishing Group.
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Health Economics Research Unit
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/heru/
The Health Economics Research Unit (HERU) was established in 1977 and is part of the Institute of Applied Health Sciences within the College of Life Sciences and Medicine at the University of Aberdeen. Its aims are to develop new methods within health economics and to encourage the use of the techniques of economic appraisal by clinicians and managers in the health service. The site covers details of the Unit and its staff, research programmes, teaching health economics, presentations and Unit publications.
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Health Economics Research Group
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/herg/
The Health Economics Research Group (HERG) at Brunel University aims to undertake high quality policy relevant research, and to contribute to the development of evaluation methodologies. Details are provided of the Group's staff, research interests and publications. There is detailed information on current research projects, seminars and links to sites of related interest.
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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 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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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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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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Centre for Health Economics : University of York
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/che/
The Centre for Health Economics (CHE) was established in 1983. Its main areas of research are: outcome measurement, economic evaluation of alternative technologies, primary care, addiction and health promotion, health economics, resource allocation, and health policy. This home page provides information about the Centre, its publications (which include the journal Health Economics), courses and PhDs, and a staff directory.
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Office of Health Economics
http://www.ohe.org/
Web pages of the Office of Health Economics (OHE), an independent body providing advice, research and consultancy services within the areas of health, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. The site gives details of the many publications produced by OHE, although very few are available for download. There is information about recent events held or sponsored by OHE as well as news about publications, lectures and initiatives in the field.
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Health economics and decision science
http://www.shef.ac.uk/heds/
Health Economics and Decision Science (HEDS) forms the largest section within the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield. The stated purposes of HEDS are to promote excellence in national and international health care resource allocation decisions, by means of applied and theoretical research funded by the public and private sector; and to support the effective implementation of the results of such research through education, training and management interventions. HEDS contributes to areas including the valuation of health, the analysis of health policy, welfare and equity, technology appraisal, trial-based economic evaluation, and econometrics.
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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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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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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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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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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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Health Economics Research Centre
http://www.herc.ox.ac.uk/
The Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) at Oxford University was established in 1996 as a collaboration between the University of Oxford and the NHS Executive. HERC collaborates with and supports academic and NHS research, as well as undertaking its own independent research. It also runs its own professional courses for health economists and health professionals. The website provides information about HERC and its activities, conferences and staff. There is access to their publications and presentations. Some documents are in PDF requiring Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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Bandolier : health economics and implementation
http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/booth/booths/econ.html
One in a series of Bandolier collections of quality evidence resources relating to medical issues. This collection focuses on health economics and implementation and contains articles that have appeared in Bandolier and links to relevant Web resources. As of September 2009 there are some 40 topics available, with subject matter including antenatal corticosteroids, autologous blood transfusions, back pain, erectile dysfunction, depression, latex allergy, anaemia, healthcare costs in the last year of life, digestive diseases, hospital acquired infections, diabetes, migraine, smoking, pain management, macular degeneration, medical errors, quality of life, chlamydia infection, and QALYs.
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Center on the Demography and Economics of Health and Aging
http://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/research/2046/
The Center on the Demography and Economics of Health and Aging is a part of Stanford University's Center for Health Policy. The Center "promotes the study of trends in demography, economics, health and health care, and the effects of these trends on the well-being of the elderly." There is information on research programs and projects, publications list and news and event information.
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Methods for expected value of information analysis in complex health econiomic models : developments on the health economics of beta interferon and glatiramer acetate for multiple sclerosis
http://www.hta.ac.uk/project/1360.asp
This systematic review aims to analyse several health economic metamodelling techniques for their ability to produce accurate 'expected value of perfect information' (EVPI) calculations. EVPI is an approach which is used to identify areas that should be prioritised for further research, where additional data collection could be of the most value in order to reduce the cost of uncertainty for commissioners making decisions on the use of the disease-modifying therapies beta interferon and glatiramer acetate in multiple sclerosis (MS). Metamodelling techniques like linear regression, neural networks, response surface methodology (using polynomial regression), multivariate adaptive regression splines and Gaussian processes/Kriging (nonlinear regression) were reviewed and compared for their ability to give greatest accuracy in EVPI estimations. An analysis was done of the University of Sheffield School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) MS model using three metamodelling techniques to produce an EVPI calculation on the value of conducting more research into certain areas concerning the impacts of the use of the beta interferon and the glatiramer acetate therapies. Authored by P Tappenden et al, and published in June 2004, this review is number 8(27) in the NHS R&D Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme monograph series from the National Coordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment (NCCHTA) based at the University of Southampton.
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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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Veterinary epidemiology and economics in Africa : a manual for use in the design and appraisal of livestock health policy
http://www.fao.org/Wairdocs/ILRI/x5436E/x5436E00.htm
This manual was written in 1987 by S.N.H. Putt, A.P.M. Shaw, A.J. Woods, L. Tyler and A.D. James, of the Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics Research Unit (VEERU), University of Reading, and was published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). This report aims to set out some of the basic techniques involved in the planning, monitoring and evaluation of livestock disease control programmes Africa. The report provides a basic overview of epidemiology, detailing the epidemiological approach to investigating disease problems, as well as outlining the use of economics in planning and evaluating disease control programmes, examining the costs of disease and benefits of their control, and investigating the role of economics and decision-making in disease control policy. A list of references and recommended reading is provided as are supporting appendices. The report can be viewed in HTML format.
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London School of Economics: Health and Social Care
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/LSEHealthAndSocialCare/
This LSE Health and Social Care website contains lists of their full-text publications which are available online and abstracts of their research projects concerning health and social care policies. Also included is a list of LSE Health and Social Care seminars and links to other related sites.
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NHS deficits
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmhealth/73/73i.pdf
This site provides access to the full text of House of Commons Health Select Committee report which was published as HC 731 (incorporating HC1204 session 2005-6). It provides analysis of the economics and funding of the British national health service focusing on NHS deficits. Topics covered include: the extent and causes of the deficit, the impact on hospital management and quality of patient care and recommendations for future change. The paper is in PDF format.
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Centre for International Public Health Policy
http://www.health.ed.ac.uk/CIPHP/
The Centre for International Public Health Policy CIPHP) is based at the University of Edinburgh. It's main areas of teaching and research include: the economics of health (public-private funding of the NHS and privatisation of healthcare); globalisation and health; comparative health care systems; the role of pharmaceuticals in health services and clinical research; regulation, intellectual property, and freedom of information. Its website provides information on its aims and current teaching and research programmes. This includes free access to some of its briefing papers and reports. Topics covered by these include the operation of the National Health Service in Scotland and PFI in Scotland.
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Financial Management in the NHS
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmpubacc/361/361.pdf
This site provides access to the full text of the House of Commons Public Accounts select Committee report which was published as HC 361 session 2006-7 in March 2007. It critical examines the economics of financing the UK's public health service. This includes coverage of the nature, causes and extent of NHS deficits and the measures being taken to reduce them. The full text is in PDF format.
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