Nana Anokye
Nana Kwame Anokye has a PhD in Health Economics (Brunel) that was awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Walduck Prize for Research Impact. Nana also has an MSc in Environmental Resources Management from Brandenburg University of Technology (Germany) and, a BA in Economics and Sociology from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana). His research addresses methodological challenges in understanding why (and how) people make decisions on behaviour change, with a view to informing the design of public health interventions and methods for assessing the value for money of such interventions. His work is informed by theoretical underpinnings from both economics and, for example, psychology. Nana’s research was influential in persuading the Department of Health to fund the first UK general population survey of both prices and perceived benefits associated with sports and exercise.
Research Interests: application of novel methods to behaviour change analysis; economic evaluation of public health interventions.
Recent publications
Anokye NK, Pokhrel S, Buxton M, Fox-Rushby J. The demand for sports and exercise: results from an illustrative survey. European Journal of Health Economics 2011 Feb 23. DOI 10.1007/s10198-011-0304-4
Anokye NK, Trueman P, Green C, Pavey TG, Hillsdon M and Taylor RS. The cost-effectiveness of exercise referral schemes BMC Public Health 2011, 11:954 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-11-954
Pavey TG, Anokye NK The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of exercise referral schemes: a systematic review and economic evaluation. Health Technology Assessment 2011, 15(44):1-254
Pavey TG, Taylor AH, Fox KR, Hillsdon M, Anokye NK, Campbell JL, Foster C et al Effect of exercise referral schemes in primary care on physical activity and improving health outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis British Medical Journal 2011 343 (Nov 042):d6462d6462
Anokye NK. An exploration of demand for physical activity. PhD Thesis. Brunel University: UK. 2010. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/4244 Recent research projects
Demand for physical activity in England (Brunel). Funded by Department of Health’s Policy Research Programme. The effectiveness and cost effectiveness of exercise referral schemes: a systematic review and economic evaluation (Exeter, Bristol and Brunel). Funded by National Institute for Health Research’s Health Technology Assessment Programme. |
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