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Online resources
As this site is an archive and no longer kept up to date, we suggest you do a web
search on the title of the organisation shown to find their current website if the
link does not work.
Research groups and professional associations
- Centre for Public Policy Evaluation, Massey University, Palmerston North - Information on economics and
policy resources, links to related web sites, NZ and
international.
- Australian Health Economics Society Inc.
- The
Society aims to promote the study, practice and development of the field of health
economics in Australia. Members are drawn from Australia, New Zealand and other
countries around
the world. Includes a focus on the evaluation of new practices
and technologies, especially the economic evaluation of pharmaceuticals (pharmaco-economics).
- Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster University, Canada -
Includes literature database, although this is currently undergoing major reconstruction
and updating.
- Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney
- Group of health economists and health services
researchers funded from a NSW Health Research and Development grant with some additional
support provided by Central Sydney Area Health Service.
- Centre for Health Economics (CHE), University of York (UK)
- A specialist health economics research
unit established in 1983. Principal areas of activity include the economic
evaluation of health technologies and outcome measurement.
- Centre for Health Program Evaluation – Melbourne
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Comprises two independent research units, the Health Economics Unit and the Program
Evaluation Unit. Co-located and managed by a coordinator, the two units each undertake
their own individual work programs as well as collaborate on research and teaching
activities. [NB Lots of the centre’s papers are available as Adobe Acrobat PDF files.]
- Diabetes Health Economics Study Group
- This group aims to enhance communication about economic issues in diabetes care and establish
collaborative efforts in the reporting and dissemination of diabetes economics research.
- Health Economics Research Centre, Oxford University
- Established in October 1996. Based within the Institute of Health Sciences, Headington,
Oxford. Centre staff undertake applied and methodological research in health economics.
- Health Economics Research Group, Brunel University
- Includes the downloadable
paper "Economic Evaluation in Health Care Research and
Development: Undertake it Early and Often" by Mark Sculpher, Michael Drummond and
Martin Buxton.
- Health Economics Research Unit (HERU), University of Aberdeen
- Established in 1977. Currently employees fourteen health economists. Objectives
include research into economic approaches to health care and encouraging economic
appraisal by clinicians and managers in the health service.
- Social and Public Health Economics Research Group (SPHERE), University of Sydney
- Formed in 1998. Applies economic thinking
and methods to assess the importance of social context in determining good health
and ameliorating bad health. Key areas of research and teaching include the economics
of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and social intervention research.
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Online databases, literature and other documents
- Editorial: "Economic evaluation of health care interventions: an economist's perspective."
- Authored by Amiram Gafni, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. A short
document that assesses "whether flaws in the economic methods themselves or the
oversimplification and misapplication of these methods are responsible for the perceived
(or real) lack of usefulness of this growing body of literature."
- Information on the journal Health Economics, including notes for contributors and
the aims of the journal
- Health Economics Evaluation Database (HEED) - A CD-ROM database of economic
evaluations in health care. Updated monthly, it includes information on over 17,500
evaluations including non-English evaluations.
- Internet Documents in Economics Access Service (IDEAS)
- A site providing information about
working papers and published research to the economics profession. Many full-text
papers are available free to download. You can use the search function to find published
and working papers specifically on health-related evaluations.
- NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York
- A free searchable database that includes
the NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED) (a database of structured abstracts
of economic evaluations of health care interventions).
- Office of Health Economics' interactive source 'The Economics of Health Care'
- Contains downloadable
textbook for those wishing to understand the basic principles of health care economics.
- UK Economic and Social Research Council - The UK's main funder of public
good research and training in social and economic issues. Includes access to Regard,
a searchable database of UK research projects, including funded economic
studies of population health and health services (e.g. economic evaluation of mental
health care).
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General literature
- Drummond, M.F. (1980). Principles of Economic Appraisal in Health Care, Oxford,
Oxford University Press.
- Drummond, M., O’Brien, B., Stoddart, G.L. and Torrance, G.W. (1997). Methods for
the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press.
- Gold, M.R., Siegel, J.E., Russell, L.B. and Weinstein, M.C. (1996). Cost-Effectiveness
in Health and Medicine, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
- Haddix, A.C., Teutsch, S.M., Shaffer, P.A., & Dunet, D.O. (1996). Prevention effectiveness: A guide to decision analysis and economic evaluation. Auckland: Oxford
University Press.
- Jefferson, T., Demicheli, V. and Mugford, M. (1996) Elementary Economic Evaluation
in Health Care, London, BMJ Publishing Group.
- Kobelt, G. (1996) Health Economics: An Introduction to Economic Evaluation, London,
Office of Health Economics.
- Zweifel, P., & Breyer, F. (1996). Health economics. Auckland: Oxford University
Press.
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