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

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.

Anlytical tools to help with funnel plots, calculation of standardised rates, inequality measures (Lorenz curves), population pyramids, prevalence estimator

I think the two most useful things within this are the inequality measures - with a nice introductory presentation on what Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients are, and the life tables (including standard errors, which are not available in the standard GAD tables which are also bookmarked)

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.

Free course including slides and mp3 commentary. Part 2 covers study design, linear regression, logistic regression and survival analysis.

Free course including slides and mp3 commentary. Part 1 covers describing data, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing and introduction to survival analysis.

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

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"

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

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

Download page for introductory Bayesian analysis software. It is also useful for fitting distributions to sample summary statistics.

A very basic glossary with links to source documents.

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.

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 Published in 1998, so some of the issues are out-of-date, such as 'Guidelines for Economic Evaluation' which do not refer to the NICE Methods Guidelines.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

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

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