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Room 3:052, Polwarth Building, Foresterhill, University of Aberdeen
Helen Weatherly will present the first of two HERU Seminars in June. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Economics, University of York and a member of the Team for Economic Evaluation and Health Technology Assessment.
The title of the seminar is 'Assessing the challenges of applying standard economic evaluation methods to health and social care interventions'.
The seminar is from 12.30pm to 1.30pm, with a sandwich lunch at noon.
Abstract
Abstract: Increasingly, economic evaluation methods are being applied to evaluate interventions beyond health care, including in the fields of public health and social care. Guidance on methods for the evaluation of clinical interventions are well established and tend to be quite prescriptive. Additional methodological challenges are raised in evaluating broader interventions and the available guidance tends to be less prescriptive.
This presentation reviews guidance for the economic evaluation of social care interventions. It considers the methods issues in evaluating these interventions. It explores the findings from a methods review of reablement, by way of example. In addition it explores a few case studies that I am currently involved in which evaluate social care interventions, namely reablement, vision rehabilitation and specialist nursing support for carers of people with dementia. These studies will be used to illustrate some methodological issues that tend to be encountered in the field. Based on these studies, some suggestions will be offered about how to deal with some of the methods issues faced. Co-author: Rita Faria, Centre for Health Economics, University of York.
HERU External Seminars Programme