Health Care Systems
Health care systems organise the finance and delivery of health care. They vary by country, reflecting specific history, culture, and economics. To maximise coverage and efficiency they must evolve with changing demographics, needs, and technologies.
Improving the Measurement of Valued Output in Primary Care in England
1 August 2022
How can we identify efficiency variations across general practices and opportunities to improve their productivity if the measurement of output does not reflect the value produced?
Reforming Primary Health Care in Middle-Income Countries: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
18 July 2022
A recent series of papers examines the effects of multiple primary health care interventions (introduction of health facility accreditation, introduction of user fees, and discontinuation of…
Ignoring the needs of our future workforce could have disastrous consequences for the UK NHS and its patients.
12 May 2022
Ignoring the needs of our future workforce could have disastrous consequences for the UK NHS and its patients. In economics, we have a pretty complicated name…
Invest to End TB. Save Lives. World TB Day 2022. Reflections on 60 years of OHE publications on TB
24 March 2022
Global TB deaths are increasing. CGD and OHE set out a “Market-Driven, Value-Based, Advance Commitment (MVAC)” that would create and guarantee a market for a breakthrough…
No Smoking Day 2022: Reflecting on OHE Projections from 1994
9 March 2022
Since 1984, the UK’s second Wednesday of each March is NO SMOKING DAY (NSD). The NSD aims to encourage smokers who want to quit. In 2022,…
OHE Critique of CBO’S Pharmaceutical Investment Model Provides Warning for Policymakers on Reliability of Estimates
3 December 2021
As US policymakers consider the potential implications of the drug pricing reforms contained within the Build Back Better Act, OHE releases a critique of the Congressional…
Allocating Public Spending Efficiently: Is There a Need for a Better Mechanism to Inform Decisions in the UK and Elsewhere?
16 June 2021
Our new paper explores the evidence currently being used to allocate budgets between public sector activities in the UK and its limitations. We argue that there…
Efficiency Measurement in Primary Care: Time to Overcome the Challenges and Achieve Some Gains
10 March 2021
Why is the measurement of efficiency in health care so important, but equally challenging? And why is it especially so in primary care? This blog provides…
‘HispaNICE’: the Creation of an ‘Independent Authority for the Evaluation of Health Practices and Policies’ Gathers Momentum
24 February 2021
This blog summarises an initiative taken by more than 300 health economists and experts in support of the creation of an independent health technology assessment agency…