Links
Health Economics
Resources
- WHO Health Economics resources
- Health Economics - Places to go! - Provided by the University of Bayreuth.
- Health Economics Resource Centre
- World Bank Distance Learning Module on Basics of Health Economics
Research Centres
- Centre for Health Economics - University of York.
- Health Economics Research Unit - University of Aberdeen.
- Health Economics Research Centre - University of Oxford.
- Health Economics Group - University of Newcastle.
- York Health Economics Consortium
- Office of Health Economics
- Personal Social Services Research Unit - Universities of Kent, London School of Economics and Manchester
- Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics - University of Pennsylvania
- Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ)
- Centre for Health Economics - University of York.
- Health Economics Research Unit - University of Aberdeen.
- Health Economics Research Centre - University of Oxford.
- Health Economics Group - University of Newcastle.
- York Health Economics Consortium
- Office of Health Economics
- Personal Social Services Research Unit - Universities of Kent, London School of Economics and Manchester
- Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics - University of Pennsylvania
- Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Health Services Research
Resources
Research Centres
- LSE Health and Social Care
- LSHTM Health Services Research Unit
- Institute of Human Sciences - University of Oxford
- Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research (ScHARR)
- UEA Health Economics Group
- Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care - University of Hertfordshire
- Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine - Oxford
- MRC Health Services Health Collaboration - University of Bristol
- Institute for Fiscal Studies
- The MIT LCS Clinical Decision Making Group
- Yale Centre for Medical Informatics
- Centre for Health Service Studies - University of Kent
- McMaster University, Health Information Research Unit
- Health Science Center at Houston - University of Texas School of Public Health
- Oncolink - University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
- LSE Health and Social Care
- LSHTM Health Services Research Unit
- Institute of Human Sciences - University of Oxford
- Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research (ScHARR)
- UEA Health Economics Group
- Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care - University of Hertfordshire
- Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine - Oxford
- MRC Health Services Health Collaboration - University of Bristol
- Institute for Fiscal Studies
- The MIT LCS Clinical Decision Making Group
- Yale Centre for Medical Informatics
- Centre for Health Service Studies - University of Kent
- McMaster University, Health Information Research Unit
- Health Science Center at Houston - University of Texas School of Public Health
- Oncolink - University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
Organisations
- UK Health Economists' Study Group (HESG)
- Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI)
- Society For Medical Decision Making
- Health Technology Assesment International (HTAi) (former ISTAHC)
- International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR)
- International Health Economics Association (iHEA)
- The International Network of Drug Information Centres (INDICES)
- European Health Management Association (EHMA)
- RAND
- The French Health Economists Association
- Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment (CCOHTA)
National Statistics and Related
UK links
- National Statistics
- OHE Compendium of Health Statistics - available to order only
- NHS Hospital Episode Statistics
Other links
- WHO Statistical Information System
- OECD Health Data
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA)
- National Center for Health Statistics (USA)
- About ICD-10 Finding and Using Health Statistics: A Self-Study Course provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine
- HyperStat On-line Textbook
- Stata homepage and Resources to Help you Learn and Use Stata
- SPSS homepage and Resources to Help you Learn and Use SPSS
- The Bayesian Initiative in Health Economics & Outcomes Research
Statistics Glossary
- WHO Statistical Information System
- OECD Health Data
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA)
- National Center for Health Statistics (USA)
- About ICD-10 Finding and Using Health Statistics: A Self-Study Course provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine
- HyperStat On-line Textbook
- Stata homepage and Resources to Help you Learn and Use Stata
- SPSS homepage and Resources to Help you Learn and Use SPSS
- The Bayesian Initiative in Health Economics & Outcomes Research
Statistics Glossary
Parliament and Government links
UK links
- Search the UK Parliament Pages
- Listing of UK government bodies on the internet
- HM Treasury
- Department of Health
- National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE)
- NHS Health Development Agency and its Gateway
Cost of Health Care links
Other links
Other links
Funding Bodies
Information Sources and Databases
Drug information
- British National Formulary
- eMedicines Compendium (you need to register first)
- Pharma-lexicon
Cost-effectiveness Databases
- NHS Economic Evaluation Database
(Produced by the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, available free)
- Health Economic Evaluations Database
(Produced by the Office of Health Economics and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations (IFPMA) - available on CD-ROM and via the internet)
- The CUA Data Base: Standardizing the Methods and Practices of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
(Produced by the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard School of Public Health; available free)
Other Databases and sources
- Acronyms explained Acronym corner, Acronyms and more acronyms
- Bath Information and Data Services (BIDS)
Bibliographic service for the academic community in the UK. Provides access to the IngentaJournals and ScienceDirect. Requires ATHENS username and password. (JISC-funded)
- EconPapers
Working Papers in Economics
- BIOME
A collection of gateways which provide access to evaluated, quality Internet resources in the health and life sciences, aimed at students, researchers, academics and practitioners. BIOME is created by a core team of information specialists and subject experts based at the University of Nottingham Greenfield Medical Library, in partnership with key organisations throughout the UK and further afield.(JISC-funded)
- Chest Oivd Biomedical Service
Comprises the following datasets: Medline, CINAHL, CancerLit,and 7 Ovid BioMedical Journal Collections as well as EBMR, ClinPSYC, SPORTDiscus, HealthSTAR and AMED.
You will need ATHENS (Access Management Service) username and password to access the service.
- Clinicaltrials.gov
- EDINA
Based at Edinburgh University Data Library, is a JISC-funded national datacentre.
- European Health Systems Reforms database
- HSTAT
A free, web-based resource that provides access to full-text documents useful for providing health information and for health care decision making.
- IDEAS
A bibliographic database dedicated to Economics
- MIMAS
A JISC -supported national data centre run by Manchester Computing, at The University of Manchester, to provide the UK academic community with flexible online access to socio-economic, spatial and scientific data, and to bibliographic and electronic journal data services.
- National electronic Library for Health
- Australian Social Science Data Archives
Located in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University , was set up in 1981 with a brief to collect and preserve computer-readable data relating to social, political and economic affairs and to make the data available for further analysis.
- Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG)
A freely available Internet service which aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for students, academics, researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law. It is part of the UK Resource Discovery Network.
- UK Data Archive
A specialist national resource containing the largest collection of accessible computer readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. Through these web pages it is also possible to search the catalogues of other national archives for computer readable data and to use the services of the UK Data Archive to acquire these data on your behalf.
- WebEc
Categorises free information in economics on the WWW.
- NHS Economic Evaluation Database
(Produced by the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, available free) - Health Economic Evaluations Database
(Produced by the Office of Health Economics and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations (IFPMA) - available on CD-ROM and via the internet) - The CUA Data Base: Standardizing the Methods and Practices of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
(Produced by the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard School of Public Health; available free)
Other Databases and sources
- Acronyms explained Acronym corner, Acronyms and more acronyms
- Bath Information and Data Services (BIDS)
Bibliographic service for the academic community in the UK. Provides access to the IngentaJournals and ScienceDirect. Requires ATHENS username and password. (JISC-funded)
- EconPapers
Working Papers in Economics
- BIOME
A collection of gateways which provide access to evaluated, quality Internet resources in the health and life sciences, aimed at students, researchers, academics and practitioners. BIOME is created by a core team of information specialists and subject experts based at the University of Nottingham Greenfield Medical Library, in partnership with key organisations throughout the UK and further afield.(JISC-funded)
- Chest Oivd Biomedical Service
Comprises the following datasets: Medline, CINAHL, CancerLit,and 7 Ovid BioMedical Journal Collections as well as EBMR, ClinPSYC, SPORTDiscus, HealthSTAR and AMED.
You will need ATHENS (Access Management Service) username and password to access the service.
- Clinicaltrials.gov
- EDINA
Based at Edinburgh University Data Library, is a JISC-funded national datacentre.
- European Health Systems Reforms database
- HSTAT
A free, web-based resource that provides access to full-text documents useful for providing health information and for health care decision making.
- IDEAS
A bibliographic database dedicated to Economics
- MIMAS
A JISC -supported national data centre run by Manchester Computing, at The University of Manchester, to provide the UK academic community with flexible online access to socio-economic, spatial and scientific data, and to bibliographic and electronic journal data services.
- National electronic Library for Health
- Australian Social Science Data Archives
Located in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University , was set up in 1981 with a brief to collect and preserve computer-readable data relating to social, political and economic affairs and to make the data available for further analysis.
- Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG)
A freely available Internet service which aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for students, academics, researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law. It is part of the UK Resource Discovery Network.
- UK Data Archive
A specialist national resource containing the largest collection of accessible computer readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. Through these web pages it is also possible to search the catalogues of other national archives for computer readable data and to use the services of the UK Data Archive to acquire these data on your behalf.
- WebEc
Categorises free information in economics on the WWW.
Bibliographic service for the academic community in the UK. Provides access to the IngentaJournals and ScienceDirect. Requires ATHENS username and password. (JISC-funded)
Working Papers in Economics
A collection of gateways which provide access to evaluated, quality Internet resources in the health and life sciences, aimed at students, researchers, academics and practitioners. BIOME is created by a core team of information specialists and subject experts based at the University of Nottingham Greenfield Medical Library, in partnership with key organisations throughout the UK and further afield.(JISC-funded)
Comprises the following datasets: Medline, CINAHL, CancerLit,and 7 Ovid BioMedical Journal Collections as well as EBMR, ClinPSYC, SPORTDiscus, HealthSTAR and AMED.
You will need ATHENS (Access Management Service) username and password to access the service.
Based at Edinburgh University Data Library, is a JISC-funded national datacentre.
A free, web-based resource that provides access to full-text documents useful for providing health information and for health care decision making.
A bibliographic database dedicated to Economics
A JISC -supported national data centre run by Manchester Computing, at The University of Manchester, to provide the UK academic community with flexible online access to socio-economic, spatial and scientific data, and to bibliographic and electronic journal data services.
Located in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University , was set up in 1981 with a brief to collect and preserve computer-readable data relating to social, political and economic affairs and to make the data available for further analysis.
A freely available Internet service which aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for students, academics, researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law. It is part of the UK Resource Discovery Network.
A specialist national resource containing the largest collection of accessible computer readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. Through these web pages it is also possible to search the catalogues of other national archives for computer readable data and to use the services of the UK Data Archive to acquire these data on your behalf.
Categorises free information in economics on the WWW.
Journals
- American Journal of Public Health
- Annals of Internal Medicine
- Australian Prescriber
- Bandolier
- British Medical Journal
- Bulletin of the World Health Organisation
- Canadian Medical Association Journal
- European Journal of Health Economics (HEPAC)
- European Journal of Public Health
- Health Affairs
- Health Economics
- Health Service Journal
- Health Policy
- Health Politics, Policy and Law
- Health Policy and Planning
- Irish Medical Times
- International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance
- Irish Medical Journal
- Journal of the American Medical Association
- Journal of Health Economics
- Journal of Health Services Research and Policy
- The Lancet
- Medical Journal of Australia
- Millbank Quarterly
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Pharmacoeconomics
- Scottish Medical Journal
- Value in Health
- Cambridge Journals
- World Association of Medical Editors
- Blackwell Science
- Elsevier Science
- Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
- Free Medical Journals.com
