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Health Economics and Policy Evaluation

Health economists based in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences (NDPCHS) aim to deliver high-quality research focussed on economic aspects of health and healthcare in the UK and internationally. We apply a range of economic approaches that broadly aim to understand, and ultimately improve, healthcare and population health and well-being in different contexts. We aim to apply high levels of rigour in our research studies.

We work collaboratively with non-economists at the NDPCHS and elsewhere across the University of Oxford and beyond.

Our research is broadly structured into three themes:

Economic evaluation

Health economists in the department undertake a range of methodological and applied research that broadly falls under the umbrella of economic evaluation. This includes trial-based economic evaluations, economic evaluations based on decision-analytic models, systematic reviews of cost-effectiveness evidence, and research that aims to improve the methods that are applied by health economists generating cost-effectiveness evidence. View our projects here.

Measurement and valuation of health and broader outcomes

Researchers based at the NDPCHS are undertaking a number of methodological studies aimed at increasing our knowledge around how health and wellbeing should be valued in different population groups and contexts. View our projects in this theme here.

Health systems and health policy research

Centre for Health Service Economics and Organisation

Researchers based in the Centre for Health Service Economics & Organisation (CHSEO) focus on whole-system analysis of the English health and social care sector and selected local health economies.

Our team

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Health Economics Seminar Series

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Projects

ECONOMIC EVALUATION

Cost-effectiveness of weight bearing in ankle fractures

The cost-effectiveness of testing for Group B Streptococcus in pregnancy based on a cluster randomised trial (GBS3)

Artificial intelligence and big data for early lung cancer diagnosis prospective study (phase 2)

COPD exacerbation alert for patient stratification

Health professional administered brief insomnia therapy trial (HABIT)

D-Mannose to prevent recurrent UTI: a double-blind randomised placebo controlled trial

Childhood asthma management in primary care: Implementation of exhaled nitric oxide and spirometry testing (CHAMPIONS study)

Rapid diagnosis of urinary tract infection in primary healthcare

Screening to improve health in very preterm infants (SHIPS)

Mathematical and economic modelling for vaccination and immunisation evaluation (MEMVIE 2)

Induction of labour for predicted macrosomia: ‘The Big Baby’ randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation

The Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS) Revision (CHEERS 2)

Economic costs associated with miscarriage: A secondary analysis of QResearch

Glycaemic control in labour with diabetes (GILD)

Paramedic analgesia comparing ketamine and morphine in trauma (PACKMaN)

Impact of musculoskeletal conditions on outcomes of other illnesses using linked electronic health records (HES-CPRD) study

Cost-effectiveness of an online parenting intervention to prevent affective disorders in high-risk adolescents (PIPA)

Economic research based on the REsearch on Children and Adults born Preterm (RECAP) programme

RCT to reduce antibiotic prescribing among CHIldren with Cough (CHICO)

Integrative Cancer Epidemiology Programme 2