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Financing UK Climate Change Adaptation: Can We Afford It?
Climate change is now a well-known, broadly recognised and politically contentious phenomenon that is taking place across the globe. As ...
The 6 essential questions you need to ask health economists when their analysis includes health outcomes.
A look at the Economic Lens articles by Economics By Design shows that concepts such as ‘effectiveness’, ‘efficiency’, ‘productivity’ and ‘value’ ...
Integrated Care Systems: Value Case For Child Health Hubs
Integrated care systems for children can provide significant benefits for children and their families, for those working with children across ...
A Simple Model for Understanding Health Inequalities
We can observe the staggering scale of health inequalities and differences experienced by different communities. However, although the symptoms are ...
Using Health Economics to set Priorities for Essential Health Benefits: The Case for Including The Impact On Economic Productivity
Governments and health insurance providers use pooled funds to purchase essential health benefits for their citizens or insured populations ...
Economic Workforce Planning: Treating People as Assets, Not Costs
In this article, we’ll argue that, despite recent history, treating healthcare staff as a cost and not an asset needs ...
Integrated Healthcare for Children: The Child Health Hub
An "ideal" child health integrated healthcare system can be described as one that acknowledges the distinct requirements of children, young ...
Health Inequalities Explained
Health inequalities are differences in health outcomes, access to care and/or health determinants that exist between different population groups due ...
The Economics of Climate Adaptation
There will be opportunities for the UK from climate change. Warmer winters may sound quite appealing at this moment as ...
The Health Economics of Climate Change
Climate change is a public health issue because it threatens the well-being of people around the world. The health economic ...
The Economic Value of the Breast Clinician Credential
This project involved the development of a value proposition for the Credential, and an economic model to measure the return ...
£38bn per annum: A comprehensive economic cost of child poverty in the UK
Cost of Child Poverty in the UK How many children live in poverty in the UK? "For the 3.9 million ...
What is a Health Economist: 10 ways they can help
What is a Health Economist? A health economist is someone who is an expert in applying the principles of economics ...
Integrated Care Systems: What is the evidence?
Across the world, there is a growing consensus that Integrated Care Systems and People-Centred Care have the potential to deliver ...
The Economic Value of Personal Wellbeing
According to a study conducted by O.C. Tanner in the 2022 Global Culture Report, only 49% of employees in the ...
Integrated Care Systems & Financial Flows
The new integrated care systems being established across England have ambitious goals to improve health and wellbeing outcomes ...
The Economics of Preventative Healthcare
On the face of it, raising taxes on products which harm health is likely to be a win-win. Why are ...
The Economics behind “Fair Shares” Funding Formulae for Health Services
Government funded health services account for around 60% of health expenditure ...
The Economic Impact of Mental Health & Covid-19
There are huge economic costs arising from individuals living with mental health conditions. These have likely been exacerbated by Covid-19 ...
The Economics of Health Spending: How Much is Enough?
Global health spending is expected to increase by 38% by 2050. In this blog, we ask what is driving that ...
Economics and Value Based Healthcare
When setting health system goals, let’s think beyond the Value based healthcare triple aim and look at personal value, technical ...
Do Health System Efficiency Targets Give Economic Efficiency A Bad Name
Efficiency targets for integrated health systems can be counter-productive. Here we explore the different types of health system economic efficiency ...
The Economic Value of a Healthy Health Workforce
Health professionals are expensive to train, recruit, and provide cover for when absent. We look at the economic cost to ...
Workforce Planning and Economic Value
Workforce planning in health isn’t just about getting the numbers right, it is about maximising the economic value of our ...
Spring Statement 2022: Opportunity or Threat to Public Health?
There is a compelling case for the Chancellor to restore real spending levels on public health and illness prevention in ...