Prof Philip Clarke considers the challenge of reproducibility in the discipline of health economics, discussing several initiatives that can support high quality research and better decision-making.
The 3rd annual MEED Research Forum took place on Friday, September 24th over Zoom. The organising committee decided that it was high-time for the health economics cabal to start discussing their contribution to the COVID-19 pandemic with respect to diagnostics.… Read More »Meeting round-up: MEED Forum 2021
The Right Price: A Value-Based Prescription for Drug Costs Paperback, 272 pages, ISBN: 9780197512876, published 12 October 2021 You can support the blog by buying books through one of our affiliate links. If you’re in the UK, visit our shop on… Read More »Review: The Right Price (Peter Neumann et al)
This course will arm you with tools to measure health inequality. It will encourage and facilitate evaluation of the normative foundations of inequality measures. You will become familiar with methods used to explain socioeconomic disparities in health and to identify… Read More »Inequalities in Health and Healthcare
Vaccine skepticism and hesitancy – the distrust and skepticism that some members of the public feel for vaccines, as well as for institutions that deliver and encourage vaccination – has emerged as a major threat to world health. Vaccine skepticism… Read More »Education versus anti-vaxxers: evidence from Europe
The agent relationship and information asymmetry are two features of healthcare economics – but how do they apply to public health policy around processed foods? Why is health different to other goods? Arrow’s 1963 seminal paper helped lay the foundations… Read More »Agent relationships and information asymmetries in public health
Every Monday our authors provide a round-up of some of the most recently published peer reviewed articles from the field. We don’t cover everything, or even what’s most important – just a few papers that have interested the author. Visit… Read More »Chris Sampson’s journal round-up for 18th November 2019
Every Monday our authors provide a round-up of some of the most recently published peer reviewed articles from the field. We don’t cover everything, or even what’s most important – just a few papers that have interested the author. Visit… Read More »Brendan Collins’s journal round-up for 14th January 2019
Every Monday our authors provide a round-up of some of the most recently published peer reviewed articles from the field. We don’t cover everything, or even what’s most important – just a few papers that have interested the author. Visit… Read More »Simon McNamara’s journal round-up for 6th August 2018
Every Monday our authors provide a round-up of some of the most recently published peer reviewed articles from the field. We don’t cover everything, or even what’s most important – just a few papers that have interested the author. Visit… Read More »Alastair Canaway’s journal round-up for 30th July 2018