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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 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 Published in 1998, so some of the issues are out-of-date, such as 'Guidelines for Economic Evaluation' which do not refer to the NICE Methods Guidelines.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

Good overview of economic evaluation methods - "a free mini Drummond". Although based around social welfare interventions, most is generally applicable.

Comprehensive database of published economic evaluations - all critically reviewed.

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

Economic evaluation database containing over 2,000 citations from January 1, 1980 to December 31, 2008 and continues to be updated. Only includes interventions directed at the paediatric population including neonates, infants, children, or adolescents less than 19 years.

World Health Organisation CHOosing Interventions that are Cost Effective (WHO-CHOICE). Homepage for many resources relating to methods and data sources for economic evaluations as undertaken by WHO. Mainly focused on low and middle-income countries.

The Health Economics component of this website includes open access teaching materials, including Mater's Level material.

Copies of the Centre's working papers, discussion papers, reports and lecture monographs.

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 So some of the policy stuff will be out of date......but its free.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.

Database of working papers

Training activities on a range of topics. Critical appraisal is within "Health economics information resources: a self-study course" and general methods within "HTA 101: Introduction to health technology assessment"

Links to pdfs of short descriptions of key EBM terms including some economic concepts, e.g. QALY, cost-utility analysis, etc.

ISPOR site containing summaries of economic evalauion guidelines mainly relating to reimbursement.

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

Keep up to speed with HEDS research and related issues

Good report by the World Bank coving foundations of priority setting and its theoretical and practical problems problems

Excellent booklet giving an introduction to Bayesian statistics and its application to cost-effectiveness analysis.

Thanks for that. It is extremely clear, easy-to-read booklet.