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Pay or Decay: The ‘Lifestyle Drugs’ Crisis

Lifestyle conditions are here to stay. Does payment for 'lifestyle' drugs represent an efficient way of using scarce health care resources?

Pay or Decay: The ‘Lifestyle Drugs’ Crisis

Intensive Care: Expensive or Bargain?

The use of intensive care has created concerns because of its increasing consumption of health care resources. However, considering the number of lives that saves is it really expensive or rather a bargain?

Intensive Care: Expensive or Bargain?

Ageing and Health Care Costs: True Lies

Increasing trends in health care expenditures is often attributed to population ageing. In this article an attempt to shed some light to the real connection between ageing and health expenditures is made.

Ageing and Health Care Costs: True Lies
Top Health Economics Papers

Top Health Economics Papers

09 November 2008

The top health economics journal articles by frequency of citation on student reading lists.

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Health Economist.biz Mobile Edition

04 November 2008

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ISPOR 11th European Congress

ISPOR 11th European Congress

02 November 2008

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And The Winner For 2008 Is…

And The Winner For 2008 Is…

26 October 2008

A post about the ideas of this year's Economics Nobel Prize winner on health care.

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A blog discussing current economic issues in health and health care. It is published by Dimitrios Rovithis, a health economist based at the Centre for Health Services, Management and Evaluation of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Read more»



Organisations

  • HESG | The UK Health Economists’ Study Group
  • iHEA | International Health Economics Association
  • ISPOR | International Society for Pharmaco- Economics and Outcomes Research

Universities

  • CHE York | Centre for Health Economics, University of York (UK)
  • HERC Oxford | Health Economics Research Centre, University of Oxford
  • LSE Health | London School of Economics Health Research Centre

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