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Reimagining Prevention for a Healthier, More Prosperous Society: Webinar Insights
7 December 2023
…a tangible difference to the trajectory of their health. Given that the predominant precursor of poor health is exposure to health damaging environments stemming from poverty, policy actions should strive…
What is the impact of Uniform Pricing, Indication-Based Pricing (IBP) and alternative commercial arrangements for new pharmaceuticals in the UK NHS?
19 November 2024
…found that enhanced pricing flexibilities lead to better access and health benefits from multi-indication medicines, but – counterintuitively – poorer population health overall because of higher expenditure. Given the important…
Drug shortages are on the rise – but what is their impact?
16 September 2024
…likely as a society to observe the rising consequent harm to patient health, healthcare systems and healthcare budgets. While policy-makers exert efforts to control pharmaceutical expenditure with cost-containment policies, greater…
The Value of Diagnostic information (VODI) in Heart Failure – Recognising Value Beyond ‘Beats-Per-Minute’
3 December 2020
…Zamora B. 2019. The Value of Diagnostic Information in Personalised Healthcare: A Comprehensive Concept to Facilitate Bringing This Technology into Healthcare Systems. Public Health Genomics. 22, pp. 8-15. doi: 10.1159/000501832…
Techniques of Health Status Measurement Using a Health Index
1 April 1985
…for health care or externally measured “needs”. The use of resources in one… It is widely accepted that resources for the provision of health care are scarce, that is, there…
OHE Annual Lecture: Universal Health Coverage: the Holy Grail?
8 June 2014, 11:00pm
…the National Health Service. The health systems of most other high income countries similarly embody the ideal of universal health coverage. Yet low- and lower-middle-income countries have recently been on…
Ill in Europe
1 October 1982
People pay for some health care themselves out of income and savings. In Britain, out of a total expenditure on health care of all kinds of £ 13,700 million in…
Around the World in HTAs: Kenya – Riding the Waves of Change
19 May 2025
…in healthcare, evaluating healthcare interventions, and guiding healthcare decision-making processes. As new health technologies and interventions, including therapies, digital health technologies and innovative diagnostics, continue to emerge, Kenya has made…
Funding Challenges in the Malaysian Health Care System
7 January 2020
…used in Malaysia to provide evidence to support an efficient healthcare system. He concluded that: digital health offers great opportunity for efficiency improvements and better health outcomes; the data captured can be used to generate evidence on the performance…