HEDS Teaching

A free 59 page textbook written by Prof John Cairns. Clearly written and easy to read. Published in 1998, so some of the issues are out-of-date, such as 'Guidelines for Economic Evaluation' which do not refer to the NICE Methods Guidelines. But overall, a good introduction and overview.

Link has changed to: http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/sites/files/nuffield/publication/Economic-Evaluation-and-Health-Care.pdf

OHE Occasional Paper

OHE Occasional Paper

These are a series of documents produced by the NICE Decision Support Unit. They were commissioned by NICE with the aim of providing further information about how to implement the approaches described in the current NICE Guide to the Methods of Technology Appraisal (2008).

Free 72 page book produce by the Department of Veteran Affairs in the US, covering most practical issues relating to utility measurement.

The Public Health Interventions Cost Effectiveness Database (PHICED) is a database of bibliographic records comprising; National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Guidance and Costing Templates, Cost-Effectiveness Studies and Decision Tools in; Alcohol, Obesity, Physical activity and Tobacco.

These are introductory materials prodcude for the National Prescribing Centre relating to health economics and economic evaluation, including two 30 minute recorded lectures.

Free online book and also available as a pdf download. Chapter 15 is Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Priority Setting by Philip Musgrove and Julia Fox-Rushby. Chapter 15 is 16 pages, the full book is 1400.

The textbook was developed to cover the Faculty of Public Health Part A membership examination syllabus. The Health Economics chapter was written by Dave Parkin. The sections within the chapter are: Principles of health economics Assessing Performance Financial Resource Allocation Systems of Health and Social Care and the Role of Incentives Techniques of economic appraisal Marginal Analysis Decision Analysis The role of economic evaluation and priority setting in health care decision making

A very basic glossary with links to source documents.

A set of 3 OECD Working Papers; Health care systems: efficiency and institutions, Health status determinants: lifestyle, environment, health care resources and efficiency and Health systems institutional characteristics: a survey of 29 OECD countries. Very useful reference material.

Published by WHO on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policy back in 2004. So some of the policy stuff will be out of date......but its free. At 395 pages it's a bit of a beast, but if you are selective in your reading it gives a broad perspective on licensing, economic evaluation, etc, in relation to the pharmaceutical industry.

A free pdf of an OHE book. Contents: Chapter 1 Introduction: the evaluation problem and linear regression Chapter 2 The Health and Lifestyle Survey Chapter 3 Binary Dependent Variables Chapter 4 The Ordered Probit Model Chapter 5 Multinomial Models Chapter 6 The Bivariate Probit Model Chapter 7 The Selection Problem Chapter 8 Endogenous Regressors: the evaluation problem revisited Chapter 9 Count Data Regression Chapter 10 Duration Analysis Chapter 11 Panel Data

The SHeffield ELicitation Framework (SHELF) is a package of documents, templates and software to carry out elicitation of probability distributions for uncertain quantities from a group of experts. It was developed at the University of Sheffield by Tony O'Hagan and Jeremy Oakley.

Data for individual councils on residential, nursing, day care and home help. The unit costs will be of most use in economic evaluation

Simtools is freeware that adds statistical functions and procedures for doing Monte Carlo simulation and risk analysis in spreadsheets. Note that these add-ins stay with the machine that they are loaded onto, so speadsheets that use these functions will not work on other machines that do not have the add-in.

Part 3 of an easy 3 part tutorial on Markov models

Part 2 of an easy 3 part tutorial on Markov models

Part 1 of an easy 3 part tutorial on Markov models.

Presentation by Andy Briggs describing how to relate continuous hazards to discrete-time transition probabilities. Includes slides, practical exercise and answer.