The British Medical Journal Health Economics Collection : Health Economics
A collection of articles, references and methodological papers in the general area of health economics.
url: www.bmj.com/cgi/collection/health_economics
Canadian Co-ordinating Office For Health Technology Assessment
Independent, not-for-profit organization providing unbiased, reliable information about health technologies.
url: www.ccohta.ca/
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.
url: www.cmt.liu.se/
Commission for Health Improvement
Independent non-departmental public body aiming to improve the quality of patient care in the NHS. Provides details of the Commission, the results of investigations, studies, reviews and reports.
url: www.chi.nhs.uk/
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.
url: www.pitt.edu/~tjs/diabecon.html
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.
url: www.york.ac.uk/inst/che/addictio.htm
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.
url: 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.
url: www.healthcareanalysis.co.uk
Health Affairs
Health policy journal publishing original, peer-reviewed research and commentary.
url: www.healthaffairs.org/
Health Economics (Journal)
Publishers page which offers access to abstracts of the journal 'Health Economics'. Online full text for subscribers only.
url: www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jtoc?ID=5749
Health Economics - Places to go
Comprehensive listings of sources of health economics information.
url: www.medecon.de/
Health Reform Online Home
The World Bank's comprehensive online resource center on health sector reform efforts around the world.
url: 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
url: 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.
url: www.healtheconomics.com/
Heccon Services Kenya
Health Economics Consultancy based in Kenya and offering services to Developing Countries, especially African.
url: www.tcfb.com/hecconserve
HEED Home Page
HEED is the Health Economic Evaluations Database designed by health economists for use by health economists
url: 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!
url: 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.
url: 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.
url: www.healtheconomics.org/
Journal of Health Economics
Full text now available of this very influential health economics journal.
url: www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_h...
Millbank Quarterly
A uniquely in-depth assessment of the social, legal, and ethical dimensions of health care policy.
url: 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.
url: www.nice.org.uk
NHS Centre For Reviews and Dissemination
Information on how to undertake systematic reviews, together with databases of review appraisals.
url: www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/
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
url: 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.
url: www.cochrane.dk/
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.
url: www.ohe.org
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.
url: www.rand.org
Resources For Health Economists
Links to Journals, some with full text, which are relevant to Health Economics.
url: 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.
url: www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/statnote.htm
Strained Mercy
Textbook on health economics, written within the Canadian context.
url: frisch.ecn.ulaval.ca/guy/11160/Manuel/Strained_Mer...
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.
url: www.wws.princeton.edu/~ota/ns20/pubs_f.html
