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The impact of incentives

  • Sam Watson Sam Watson
  • November 18, 2011July 13, 2018
  • Public Health

What causes people to respond to incentives? From a simplistic view we may say that people just pick the option with the highest utility; everybody has a price, right? Financial incentives are often used to… Read More »The impact of incentives

Cause and effect: Hospital choice and rankings

  • Sam Watson Sam Watson
  • November 9, 2011July 13, 2018
  • Markets in Health Care

Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Science, recently published an article online for his Guardian column discussing hospital level variation in Bowel Cancer mortality. In this article he discusses how journalists often see patterns in random… Read More »Cause and effect: Hospital choice and rankings

Health and Social Care Bill 2011

  • Chris Sampson Chris Sampson
  • October 17, 2011July 13, 2018
  • 6 Comments
  • Health and the Economy, News

Many have spoken out in opposition to the bill. Some have spoken out in support. As health economists most of us have done little of either. I recently wrote to health economists asking them to… Read More »Health and Social Care Bill 2011

Review: Credit Crunch Health Care (Cam Donaldson)

  • Chris Sampson Chris Sampson
  • September 26, 2011July 13, 2018
  • Reviews

Credit Crunch Health Care – How economics can save our publicly funded health services Paperback, 160 pages, ISBN: 9781847427526, published 16 February 2011 Amazon / Google Books / The Policy Press Cam Donaldson has chosen to use his powers of prophecy for… Read More »Review: Credit Crunch Health Care (Cam Donaldson)

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