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- Australian Prescriber - Australian Prescriber is an independent review of therapeutics produced for health professionals. It aims to provide short direct and didactic reviews on a range of topics which will assist readers.
www.australianprescriber.com/main.htm
- Bulletin of the World Health Organisation - On-Line content of the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation. Good Health Economics Content.
www.who.int/bulletin
- Canadian Co-ordinating Office For Health Technology Assessment - CCOHTA's mission is to encourage the appropriate use of health technology by influencing decision makers through the collection, analysis, creation and dissemination of information concerning the effectiveness and cost of technology and its impact on health.
www.ccohta.ca/newweb/entry_e.htm
- Centre For Medical Technology Assessment at Lindkoping University - The organisations objective is to carry out assessment studies of medical technologies from the medical, social, economic and ethical points of view.
www.imt.liu.se/cmt
- Citizen Action of New York - Citizen Action of New York is a grassroots organization fighting for economic, social and environmental justice. This site argues that in the USA Health Maintenance Organisations (HMOs) and insurance companies are driving up costs and driving down quality!
www.citizenactionny.org
- Das Soziale Gesundheitswesen (German) - If your German is good enough here is an fascinating book. Die steigenden Anforderungen an die soziale Krankenversorgung werden dargestellt und gefragt, ob diese Anforderungen mit Staatsbetrieben, Monopolen oder unter Wettbewerb bewältigt werden sollen. Die drei Systeme - USA, Deutschland, USA - werden analysiert und die Folgen für die österreichische Gesundheitspolitik daraus gezogen.
www.flooid.com/gesundheitssystem
- Diabetes Health Economics Group - The DHESG seeks to enhance communication about economic issues in diabetes care, and establish collaborative efforts in the reporting and dissemination of diabetes economics research.
www.pitt.edu/~tjs/diabecon.html
- ECONbase - Economics Science Journals
www.elsevier.nl/homepage/sae/econbase/menu.sht
- Economics of Addiction/Preventive Health Research Programmes - University of York public policy research on economics of addiction. This Site by a well respected research organisation has details on research and issues relevant to smoking, alcohol and drug addiction.
www.york.ac.uk/inst/che/addictio.htm
- EconomicsResearch Resources for Economists - Health Economics Resources for students, academics and researchers. Contains lecture notes and references for a health economics course in the UK.
www.economicsresearch.net
- European Clearing House on Health Systems Reforms - Europe-wide network of researchers and policy analysts, providing a forum for exchanging information on health systems reform. A database of literature on European health systems reform, together with details of ongoing research projects.
www.york.ac.uk/res/herc/info1.htm#clear
- Financial analysis of the entire UK Healthcare industry - Commercial site advertising a publication which describes UK companies involved in the Healthcare industry.
www.healthcareanalysis.co.uk
- Health Affairs - A major periodical in its field.
www.healthaffairs.org
- Health Economics (Journal) - Publishers page which offers access to abstracts of the journal 'Health Economics'. Online full text for subscribers only.
www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jtoc?ID=5749
- Health Economics - Places to go - Comprehensive listings of sources of health economics information.
www.medecon.de
- Health Merger Info - Site development for measuring effects of health organization mergers
www.HealthMergerInfo.com
- Health Reform Online Home - The World Bank's comprehensive online resource center on health sector reform efforts around the world.
www.worldbank.org/healthreform
- Health Technology Board for Scotland - Provides advice to the NHS Scotland on the clinical and cost-effectiveness of new and existing health technologies; such as medicines, devices, clinical procedures and healthcare settings
www.htbs.org.uk/Default.htm
- HealthEconomics.Com - A world-wide list of resources on health economics, pharmacoeconomics, outcomes research, managed care, value in medicine, health-related quality of life, performance assessment, and quality of care.
www.healtheconomics.com
- Heccon Services Kenya - Health Economics Consultancy based in Kenya and offering services to Developing Countries, especially African.
www.tcfb.com/hecconserve
- HEED Home Page - HEED is the Health Economic Evaluations Database designed by health economists for use by health economists
www.ohe-heed.com
- HTA programme home page - Excellent resources for health economics in the publications section, especially recommended is the article about uncertainty in economic evaluation. State of the Art!
www.hta.nhsweb.nhs.uk
- IFS: Health Issues - The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is an independent research organisation aiming to provide high quality economic analysis of public policy with a section on UK Healthcare Provision and wide ranging economic analysis, including econometrics and international issues.
www.ifs.org.uk/healthindex.shtml
- International Health Economics Association - iHEA has been formed to increase communication among health economists, foster a higher standard of debate in the application of economics to health and health care systems.
www.healtheconomics.org
- Journal of Health Economics - Full text now available of this very influential health economics journal.
www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/5/0/5/5/6/0
- Millbank Quarterly - A uniquely in-depth assessment of the social, legal, and ethical dimensions of health care policy.
www.milbank.org/quarterly.html
- National Institute of Clinical Evidence - The National Institute for Clinical Excellence is developing a series of national clinical guidelines to secure consistent, high quality, evidence based care for patients using the National Health Service in England and Wales.
www.nice.org.uk
- NHS Centre For Reviews and Dissemination - A wealth of information on how to undertake systematic reviews, together with databases of review appraisals.
www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/welcome.htm
- NHS CRD Database of Reviews of Effectiveness - Databases of Reviews of Clinical and Cost-Effectiveness. Authoritative reviews of Journal Articles in Health Care and Health Economics
nhscrd.york.ac.uk/welcome.html
- Nordic Cochrane Centre - The Nordic Cochrane Centre is part of The Cochrane Collaboration, an international network of individuals and institutions committed to preparing, maintaining, and disseminating systematic reviews of the effects of health care.
www.cochrane.dk/ncc/home.htm
- Office of Health Economics - The Office of Health Economics aims to commission and undertake research on the economics of health, collect and analyse health and health care data from the United Kingdom and other countries and disseminate the results.
www.ohe.org
- Resources For Health Economists - On-Line Journals - Links to Journals, some on-line with full text, which are relevant to Health Economics
www.york.ac.uk/res/herc/journal.htm
- StatNotes: Online Textbook in Statistics - Good information for Health Economists on different methods of qualitative regression techniques, including multinomial dependent variable methods.
www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/statnote.htm
- Strained Mercy online Health Economics Textbook - by Robert G. Evans Professor of Economics, University of British Columbia. Textbook on health economics, written within the Canadian context, with very useful discussions of all aspects of the subject.
www.chspr.ubc.ca//misc/Strained_Mercy
- The British Medical Journal Health Economics Collection : Health Economics - A collection of articles, references and methodological papers in the general area of health economics.
www.bmj.com/cgi/collection/health_economics
- The Commission for Health Improvement[for England and Wales] - The Commission for Health Improvement's aim is to improve the quality of patient care in the NHS. CHI will raise standards by assessing every NHS organisation and making its findings public , investigating when there is serious failure , checking that the NHS is following national guidelines and advising the NHS on best practice
www.chi.nhs.uk
- The Rand Organisation - Seminal information about health care in the USA and its financing. The Rand organisation is concerned with a wide range of Health Economics Research.
www.rand.org
- USA Office of Technology Assessment - Lists of U.S.A. OTA publications, arranged alphabetically, chronologically, and topically. All the official OTA assessments from 1974-1995 are archived at this site, along with many background papers and other documents.
www.wws.princeton.edu/~ota/ns20/pubs_f.html
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