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HERU/SHE Workshop - Using Health Economics Evidence in Health Care Decision Making

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Using Health Economics Evidence in Health Care Decision Making This free workshop from HERU and Scottish Health Economics (SHE) provides an introduction to the identification, appraisal and application of economic evaluation for policy-making in healthcare. The workshop is suitable for NHS staff who manage budgets or resources who wish to know more...

8th Annual Research Symposium: Evidence Innovation

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8th Annual Research Symposium: Evidence Innovation. This annual symposium is hosted jointly by Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS), the Health Economics Research Unit (HERU) and the Health Services Research Unit (HSRU) at the University of Aberdeen, and the Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research Unit. Dr Graham Scotland of HERU is presenting...

HERU Seminar - Dr Anju Keetharuth

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Dr Anju Keetharuth, Health Economics and Decision Science, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield.  Title: The Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL): can it be the new instrument to generate QALYs in evaluating mental health interventions?  Abstract: This talk will cover the new patient reported outcome measure (PROM) for use...

HERU External Seminar - Jamie O'Halloran

 Jamie O’Halloran, PhD Student at the Danish Centre for Health Economics, University of Southern Denmark, will present on his research. There is a sandwich lunch available at 1pm. Title: Time to retire? Changes in GP behaviour prior to retirement. Abstract: In many healthcare systems, a large proportion of general practitioners (GPs) are retiring. This study...

HERU External Seminar - Dr Tobias Borger

The first HERU External Seminar of 2020 will be delivered by Dr Tobias Borger, Lecturer in Economics at the University of Stirling.  The talk is on 'Preferences for coastal and marine conservation in Vietnam: accounting for differences in individual choice set formation'. Abstract: This study has two objectives. The first is to estimate the value...

Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics Course

This event was fully booked

This popular course covers the theoretical and practical issues of discrete choice experiments (DCEs) in health economics and in 2019 took place over three days from the 13th to the 15th November at the Park Inn Hotel, Aberdeen. The course takes place annually and was fully booked for 2019. Contact Alison Findlay with enquiries about the waiting list...

HERU External Seminar - Dr Yuanyuan Gu

The next HERU external seminar will be delivered by Dr Yuanyuan Gu. Yuanyuan is currently undertaking a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship on health econometrics with Professor Andrew Jones at the University of York. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy (MUCHE). Yuanyuan completed...

Cafe Scientifique - What should we value in healthcare?

Explore what impacts funding for NHS treatment, and the questions surrounding what we should really value in a climate with limited resources.

HERU Seminar - Sebastian Neumann-Böhme

The first HERU External Seminar of the 2019/20 session will be delivered by Sebastian Neumann-Böhme, PhD Candidate, Department of Health Economics, Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Title: Trust me; I know what I am doing. Does domain experience reduce preference reversals in decision making for others? Authors: Sebastian Neumann-Böhme*, Stefan A....

Scottish Health Economics - Launch Conference

Scottish Health Economics (SHE) is being launched to support, promote and further develop health economics in Scotland. SHE is a collaboration of health economists from Scotland’s Universities, NHS and Government. Our aim is to bring together researchers and users of health economics to explore the development and application of health economics in Scotland. All...