Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of the venerable medical journal the Lancet, is no stranger to bad economics. In 2012 and 2013, he stoked the ire of economists worldwide with a series of ill-informed tweets. These included gems such as: Economics, second only to… Read More »“Health is bad for you. That’s what many economists believe.” Richard Horton’s anti-economics strikes again.
This was my first experience of the biennial conference organised by the International Society on Priorities in Health Care. The society was founded in 1996 at the University of Birmingham in the UK and returned to its spiritual home 20… Read More »Meeting round-up: Priorities 2016
In an ideal world new policies and interventions could be tested in a randomised fashion before implementation. But, all to often, policies within the health service are decided upon in the absence of decent evidence to serve political rather than… Read More »The NHS as policy laboratory
Today, two new studies are published examining different aspects of the observed increase in the risk of mortality associated with weekend admission, the so-called ‘weekend effect’. In the first [disclaimer: I am an author of this], the results of a… Read More »The ‘Weekend Effect’ (and what it means for research and policy)
In previous posts (here and here) the comprehensive work undertaken by Claxton et al on the returns to medical expenditure in the NHS was discussed. Claxton and colleagues estimated the average change in quality adjusted life years (QALY) that have… Read More »Could a reduction in the cost-effectiveness threshold stymie medical research and development?
E-cigarettes have become, without doubt, one of the public health issues du jour. Many countries and states have been quick to prohibit them, while others continue to debate the issue. The debate ostensibly revolves around the relative harms of e-cigarettes:… Read More »E-cigarettes and the role of science in public health policy
The next #HEJC discussion will take place Friday 24th October, at 1pm London time on Twitter. To see what this means for your time zone visit Time.is or join the Facebook event. For more information about the Health Economics Journal… Read More »#HEJC for 24/10/2014
