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Latest HERU Blog post on the cost-effectiveness of urinary incontinence interventions
The latest HERU Blog highlights ongoing research in HERU looking at the cost-effectiveness of interventions for urinary incontinence. The Optimal PFMT for Adherence Long-term (OPAL) trial is exploring the clinical and cost effectiveness of pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) with biofeedback for female stress or mixed urinary incontinence. The SIMS...
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HERU Blog post published looking at the impact of shocks on doctors' risk attitude
Our latest HERU blog post looks at impact of 'shocks' on doctors' risk attitude. HERU PhD student Xuemin Zhu is researching the role of risk attitudes in the clinical and career decision making of doctors. The post looks in particular at the effect of a shock on risk attitude. A...
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Potential impact on diet quality of a Minimum Unit Price for alcohol - latest HERU Blog post
The latest HERU blog post highlights a new project that will investigate if the introduction of Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) for alcohol in Scotland has unintended consequences for diet quality and health. The project is funded by the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) and will consider if household food spending is...
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Latest HERU Blog - Which pandemic response measures are right for the community? And how do we find
Our latest HERU Blog post looks at the valuation of community preferences. In the post Dr Ruben Sakowsky, who has recently completed a PhD in HERU, argues that health economics methods need to take greater account of community preferences. The example of the COVID-19 pandemic is used to discuss the...
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April 2020 HERU newsletter
The April 2020 HERU newsletter has been published. In the newsletter we reflect on the relevance of some of our recent research to the COVID-19 pandemic and highlight studies around employment insecurity; individual and community values; and ICU decision making. We also consider some of the workforce planning issues facing...
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Making decisions about who to admit to intensive care - latest HERU Blog
The latest HERU Blog post looks at our research, in collaboration with the University of Warwick Medical School, to develop a Decision Support Pack to guide doctors' decisions on which patients to admit to intensive care. HERU researchers ran a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to identify the factors important to...
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HERU Blog post - Economic insecurity and population mental health in the COVID-19 era
The latest HERU Blog post discusses our research on the link between mental health and economic insecurity. In the blog post Dr Daniel Kopasker of HERU highlights the mental health ramifications of increased economic insecurity due to the COVID-19 crisis. The research identifies that suitable policy and workplace responses to reduce...
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HERU Blog post on giving a patients a voice in rare disease research
The latest HERU Blog post looks at the importance of 'Giving patients a voice in rare disease research'. We highlight ongoing work in HERU where we are undertaking an economic evaluation of genome-scale testing for the diagnosis of rare disorders in Scotland. The research aims to understand if genome-scale testing...
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2019 HERU Annual Report
The 2019 HERU Annual Report is available. The report highlights some key achievements over 2019, provides an overview of the Unit’s activities and details the research we are undertaking across the Unit’s four research themes. It also details our publications, the projects we are working on, and our capacity building...
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Save the Date! DCE Course in Banff, Canada, March 2021
Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics: Theoretical and Practical Issues HERU and the O’Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary are running a short course on 'Using Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) in health economics', from 8th-10th March 2021 at the Banff Conference Centre, Alberta, Canada. The aims of the short course are...