Work Area / Health Economics / Evidence sources and ongoing research

Health Economics - Evidence sources

NHS EED

The NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED) is managed by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York. It consists of structured abstracts and assists decision-makers by systematically identifying and describing economic evaluations, appraising their quality and highlighting their relative strengths and weaknesses. The database is funded by the Department of Health and is publicly available via the CRD website and to subscribing organisations via the Cochrane Library.
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/nhsdfaq.htm

OHE HEED database

The Health Economic Evaluation Database is produced by the Office of Health Economics in collaboration with the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Associations. It contains bibliographic and reference information on studies of cost-effectiveness and other forms of economic evaluations of medicines and other treatments. It is available by subscription.
http://www.ohe-heed.com/

EURONHEED

European Network of Health Economics Evaluation Databases This is a network of seven databases in seven European academic centres covering 17 European countries providing bibliographical references and critical analyses on the socio-economic evaluation of healthcare. The project is funded by the European Commission and use is free.
http://infodoc.inserm.fr/euronheed/Publication.nsf

PEDE - Paediatric Economic Database Evaluation

A bibliographic database on full economic evaluations relating to interventions directed at the paediatric population. Produced by The Hospital for Sick Children in association with the University of Toronto.
http://pede.bioinfo.sickkids.on.ca/pede/about.jsp

DHER - Diabetes Health Economics Resource

Produced by YHPHO this is a bibliographic database of records relating to the health economics management of diabetes. It is aimed at clinicians and healthcare decision makers who want to know more about the economic and health impact of diabetes interventions.
http://www.yhpho.org.uk/dhedbform.aspx

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE): Health Technology Appraisals and Public Health guidance

NICE is the independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention and treatment of ill health. NICE produces guidance in three areas of health:

public health - guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention of ill health for those working in the NHS, local authorities and the wider public and voluntary sector
health technologies - guidance on the use of new and existing medicines, treatments and procedures within the NHS
clinical practice - guidance on the appropriate treatment and care of people with specific diseases and conditions within the NHS.

NICE bases its recommendations on a review of clinical and economic evidence; that is, how well the medicine or treatment works in relation to how much it costs the NHS - does it represent value for money? NICE acknowledges that something can be both expensive and value for money. Full details of NICE guidance and programmes are available from their website.
http://www.nice.org.uk/

Comprehensive Tables of Cost-Utility Ratios

Previously hosted by the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, the Cost Effectiveness Analysis Registry produces the Comprehensive Table of Cost-Utility Ratios. The Registry can be used to compare the cost-effectiveness of a broad range of interventions using standardizing cost-utility ratios.
http://www.tufts-nemc.org/cearegistry/data.html

Journals

Applied Health Economics and Health Policy

The focus of Applied Health Economics and Health Policy is economics in an 'applied' and 'policy' context. It encourages multidisciplinary analyses and team-based projects involving academics, policy analysts and health professionals. Available by subscription or check with your organisation's library.
http://pt.wkhealth.com/pt/re/ahe/home.htm;jsessionid=
FThQTRR185NxNpMbLCVpbl5MKjlXFySrQpynmMK2xHkJcShvS24X!1671728877!-949856145!8091!-1

Health Economics

Journal on all aspects of health economics. Available by subscription or check with your organisation's library.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/5749?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

Journal of Health Economics

Journal on the economics of health and medical care. Available by subscription or check with your organisation's library.
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505560/description#description

BMJ

Online topic collection on health economics articles published in BMJ since 1998.
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/collection/health_economics?page=1

Bandolier 'Evidence based thinking about health care'

Bandolier is an independent journal about evidence-based healthcare. It is produced monthly and is publicly available. There is a topic collection on health economics.
http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/booth/booths/econ.html

Ongoing research

Public Health Research Consortium (PHRC)

The PHRC brings together senior researchers from 10 UK institutions in a new integrated programme of research. It aims to strengthen the evidence base for interventions to improve health, with a strong emphasis on tackling socio-economic inequalities in health. The programme focuses on smoking, obesity and workplace health as well as cross-cutting projects.
http://www.york.ac.uk/phrc/index.htm

An early cross-cutting project is to assess the challenges of applying standard methods of economic evaluation to public health programmes. This project assesses the challenges of applying the NICE economic evaluation 'reference case' to the evaluation of public health programmes.
http://www.york.ac.uk/phrc/projects_1.htm#d

Economic Evaluation and Public Health: Mapping the Literature

This report has been commissioned by the Welsh Assembly Government and is due to be published Autumn 2006.

Moving From Evaluation into Economic Evaluation: a health economics guide for health improvement programmes.

This has been developed by a group of health economists and public health researchers. It is intended to be a guide to economic evaluation in public health and uses case studies to illustrate the main steps in economic evaluation. It is due to be published Autumn 2006.

PHO work

This includes health economics evidence which has been synthesized into reports produced by Public Health Observatories.

Existing work

Stop before the Op: a briefing on the short term benefits of pre-operative smoking cessation in London.

LHO, May 2006. (LHO produced jointly with Barnet PCT and Smokefree London)
http://www.lho.org.uk/viewResource.aspx?id=10495

Report on Alcohol and Health in North East England

Includes a section on the economic cost of alcohol.
NEPHO, July 2006.
http://www.nepho.org.uk/view_file.php?c=1351

Choosing Health in the South East: problem drug use

SEPHO, July 2006.
Includes a section on economic costs of drug use both nationally and for the South East.
http://www.sepho.org.uk/pages/viewResource.aspx?id=10210

Choosing Health in the South East: smoking

SEPHO, July 2005
Includes sections on the economic cost of smoking and the cost of smoking-related hospital admissions.
http://www.sepho.org.uk/viewResource.aspx?id=9593

Planned work/work in progress

Modelling the impact of cost-effective interventions to reduce health inequalities on LDPs (LHO).
Developing a tool for PCTs to support planning next LDP trajectories (LHO with YHPHO) commissioned by DH.