Starting from next month, the Health Economics Twitter Journal Club will discuss working papers, rather than published articles. While this change may undermine the definition of a ‘journal club’, we think it will have a number of advantages. Firstly, by… Read More »#HEJC update
It’s 2 years today since we (an editorial ‘we’, that is) produced this blog’s inaugural post, with no more than a vague idea of what it might be or become. Plenty has happened in the online health economics scene since then.… Read More »Two today!
This month’s meeting will take place Monday 4th March, at 8pm London time. That’ll be 9pm in Rome and 1:30am on Tuesday in Mumbai. Join the Facebook event here. For more information about the Health Economics Twitter Journal Club and… Read More »#HEJC for 04/03/2013
Drugs – Without the Hot Air: Minimising the Harms of Legal and Illegal Drugs Paperback, 368 pages, ISBN: 9781906860165, published 31 May 2012 Amazon / Google Books / UIT Cambridge In 2009, Professor David Nutt was rather unceremoniously asked by the… Read More »Review: Drugs – Without the Hot Air (David Nutt)
This month’s meeting will take place Monday 4th February, at 8pm London time. That’ll be 9pm in Oslo and 2pm in Mexico City. Join the Facebook event here. For more information about the Health Economics Twitter Journal Club and how to take part, click… Read More »#HEJC for 04/02/2013
In 1976, Robert Lucas wrote a paper that articulated a common criticism of macroeconomic policy-making based on historical data. The essence of the critique was that, since the parameters of macroeconometric models were not structural, they were liable to change… Read More »The Lucas critique and hospital quality
This month’s meeting will take place Monday 7th January, at 8pm London time. That’ll be midnight in Moscow and 6pm in Sao Paulo. Join the Facebook event here. For more information about the Health Economics Twitter Journal Club and how… Read More »#HEJC for 07/01/2013
This month’s meeting will take place Monday 3rd December, at 8pm London time. That’ll be midday in Los Angeles and 7am on Tuesday in Sydney. Join the Facebook event here. For more information about the Health Economics Twitter Journal Club… Read More »#HEJC for 03/12/2012
Shortly after reading William Baumol’s new book ‘The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn’t‘, I thought that its subject matter – rising healthcare costs – may make a good subject for a post. However, John Appleby… Read More »The cost disease
Empirical research into health and health related outcomes is characterised by a predominance of binary outcomes. One of the most popular outcomes (in a statistical sense) is mortality, for example. This type of outcome warrants its own type of model… Read More »To ‘y’ or not to ‘y’: Dichotomous outcomes and endogenous regressors