This month’s meeting will take place Monday 5th November, at 8pm London time. That’ll be midday in Vancouver and 9pm in Berlin. Join the Facebook event here. For more information about the Health Economics Twitter Journal Club and how to… Read More »#HEJC for 05/11/2012
Decision models can be very useful. They can also be very bad. ISPOR and SMDM recently got together to form the Modeling Good Research Practices Task Force and have produced a set of reports. One of the reports, by David… Read More »Call for a model registry
A recent post over at Ezra Klein’s excellent Wonkblog caught my attention, both for being a post about a health economics issue, but also due to comments users had posted below. The post is about a recent set of projections… Read More »Some comments on obesity
The aim of a health intervention is generally to cause a cost-effective increase to some normative outcome such as by reducing mortality, increasing productivity and so forth. Often policy makers want to encourage or discourage certain behaviours by using incentives… Read More »Cannabis and asbestos: The cost-effectiveness of prohibition as health policy
This month’s (inaugural) meeting will take place Monday 1st October, at 8pm London time. That’ll be 3pm in New York City and 3am on Tuesday in Hong Kong. Join the Facebook event here. For more information about the Health Economics… Read More »#HEJC for 01/10/2012
Endogeneity is everywhere. There is always a reason to assume that there is some endogeneity in a model; sometimes it can’t be totally eliminated and we must just reduce it to acceptable levels. Health economists produce research that often is… Read More »The curse of endogeneity in the clinical literature
October 2012 will see the inaugural meeting of the Health Economics Twitter Journal Club. The group will meet on the first Monday of every month at 8pm, using hashtag #HEJC. Our first meeting will be 1st October 2012. For more… Read More »Introducing: The Health Economics Twitter Journal Club
In economic evaluations in health, time matters. More time in a bad health state is necessarily worse (or no better) than a smaller amount of time in said health state. Likewise, the value of an intervention increases with the duration… Read More »Considering time perception
Discussions of hospital organisation focus a lot on how particular services should be arranged in order to provide high quality care without sacrificing on equity. Many studies, looking at a wide range of different procedures, have identified a benefit from… Read More »Managed clinical networks
Why should we consider health equity? The rationale for treating health as a special good rests on the idea that a certain level of health is a precondition for achieving any of the other outcomes in life that we value.… Read More »The role of healthcare in promoting health equity