Other resources for Health Economics

Online Text
Teaching Aids
Data
Worksheets
Doctoral seminars
HESG 40th Anniversary
Useful links

Online Text

Health Knowledge: Health Economics by David Parkin, hosted by the Department of Health

Teaching Aids

EQ-5D index calculator.xls This is a simple tool that can be used in lectures to demonstrate the value sets available around the world for the EQ-5D - provided by Agota Szende, Nancy Devlin and Mark Oppe of the EuroQol Group.

Bootstrap example.xls A simple spreadsheet demonstration of how bootstrapping is used to generate confidence intervals for cost effectiveness ratios - provided by Ken Buckingham, 2007.

Data

An excellent data set is available free from the United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report. (Download the "Statistical tables" spreadsheet). Students can readily use this data (eg. to examine for themselves the relationship between health care spending and GDP per capita)

Worksheets

Two Word documents produced by the Economics Network as part of the Mathematical Case Studies for Economists project. Author: Stephen Heasell, Nottingham Trent University.

Doctoral seminars

6th HERG Virtual Researcher Seminar

at 14.00 GMT on 7th September 2012.

This initiative is led by PhD students. Our aim is to provide web-based meetings for doctoral and early career researchers in health economics. We invite oral presentations on work-in-progress from PhD students conducting research with a focus on health economics. This is a distinctive opportunity to interact with colleagues with no travel time or costs. The meetings will encourage high quality, and positive academic feedback, and create opportunities for developing new and lasting collaborations.

Speaker: Tamlyn Rautenberg, PhD Researcher
Academic Unit of Health Economics, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds

Title: Developing a Step by Step Guide to Decision Modelling in Health Care

Book via email at herg.vrs@brunel.ac.uk and you will be sent an invitation link to the virtual seminar. See webpage for more details: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/herg

5th HERG Virtual Researcher Seminar

took place on 8th June 2012.

1st Speaker: Nils Gutacker, PhD student & Research Fellow
Centre for Health Economics, University of York

Title: The joint evaluation of hospital cost and quality performance: New evidence from the English PROM initiative (WIP!)

2nd Speaker: Marto Trapero-Bertran, Research Fellow
Health Economics Research Group, Brunel University

Title: Incorporating passive smoking and smoking during pregnancy in economic evaluation of smoking cessations interventions

4th HERG Virtual Researcher Seminar

took place on 9th June 2012.

1st Speaker: Ana Tur, PhD student
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & University College London

Title: Lower Bound Estimates of Price Elasticities of Pharmaceutical Consumption

2nd Speaker: Nana Anokye, Research Fellow
Health Economics Research Group, Brunel University

Title: The demand for physical activity through sport and leisure in England

3rd HERG Virtual Researcher Seminar

took place on 9th September 2011.

1^st Speaker: Chris Skedgel, PhD student

School of Health & Related Research, University of Sheffield

Title: Discrete choice versus constant sum paired comparisons for eliciting societal preferences for healthcare resource allocation

2^nd Speaker: Edward Kendall, PhD student

Dept of Epidemiology & Public Health, UCL

Title: Methodological issues with area-level inequality measurement using panel data

2nd HERG Virtual Researcher Seminar

took place on 27th May 2011.

1^st Speaker: Christian Boehler, PhD student

Health Economics Research Group, Brunel University

Title: Mind the Gap! Geographic Transferability of Economic Evaluation in Health

2^nd Speaker: Jonas Minet Kinge, PhD student

Health Care Evaluation Group, UCL

Title: Socioeconomic variation in the association between obesity and health service use

1st HERG Virtual Researcher Seminar

took place on 28 January 2011.

1st speaker: James Chambers,PhD student

Health Economics Research Group, Brunel University

Title: Using cost-effectiveness evidence in the US health care system - Evidence from Medicare

2nd speaker: Laura Vallejo-Torres,PhD student

Health Care Evaluation Group, UCL

Title: An economic analysis of vertical equity in the delivery of health care in England

HESG 40th Anniversary

The health economists study group 40th Anniversary took place on 25th to 27th June 2012 at St Hughs College in Oxford. A plenary session took place on 26th June and the question asked:

"Our critics say that, over the last 40 years, health economics has developed into a blend of bad economics, bad statistics, and bad epidemiology. What should we do to avoid a dismal end for the cheerful face of the dismal science?

The session was chaired by Professor Cam Donaldson and there were contributions led by four discussants: Professor Bruce Hollingsworth, Dr Emma Frew, Dr Marjon van der Pol and Dr Mark Dusheiko.