HEDS Teaching

Set of MTC programmes to use within WinBUGS.

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.

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)

APHO supports joint working across the PHOs to produce information, data and intelligence on people's health and health care for practitioners, policy makers and the wider community. The high quality public health intelligence is central to both local and central government health policy and decision-making. With specialist knowledge and a wealth of information and analytical skills across our network, APHO is able to provide access to a range of national and international public health data, methodological and audit tools. (funnel plots are also included)

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

OHE Occasional Paper

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

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).

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

These are MDM web-based resources based on US population analyses by Sullivan et al 2006. The ICD-9 calculator produces figures based on age, gender, race, income and occupation. The SF-12 converter is based on MCS and PCS and also produces a standard error.

Part 2 of an easy 3 part tutorial on Markov models

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.

Part 3 of an easy 3 part tutorial on Markov models

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.

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.

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

Comprehensive database of published economic evaluations - all critically reviewed.

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.

Agenda for change pay scales 2009/2010. These relate to most NHS staff other than doctors.