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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…
NICE’s Social Value Judgments about Equity in Health and Health Care
17 January 2012
…examine the inclusion of social value judgments in NICE guidance decisions and describe the social value judgments about equity in health and health care that NICE has used to guide…
QALYs v. Other Criteria in NHS Decisions
17 May 2011
…of health care technologies by the UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) focuses on cost effectiveness, usually measured in terms of incremental cost per quality adjusted life…
Universal Health Coverage: The Holy Grail? 21st Annual Lecture Publication.
31 January 2015
…treatment, was the foundation stone for the creation of the National Health Service. The health systems of most other high income countries similarly embody the ideal of universal health coverage….
Health Care in China
1 September 1988
…interestingly, even where health insurance is being introduced to extend health care in the rural areas, high levels of co-payment by the patients are still expected. Thus China appears to…