Health systems worldwide face fundamental challenges of resource scarcity and are therefore unable to meet the unlimited population healthcare needs. Health economics plays a crucial role in optimising the use of these limited resources and service delivery to maximise health outcomes. However, there is a significant shortage of trained and skilled health economists nationally and … Continue reading “Health Economics Capacity Building University of Birmingham”
All about the Centre for Economics of Obesity
HEU’s Emma Frew talks about why economists are interested in obesity and outlines the work of the NIHR-funded Centre for Economics of Obesity. Obesity – it’s not my fault Often, we hear that the way to solve obesity is for people to eat less and move more – if only it were that simple! Despite … Continue reading “All about the Centre for Economics of Obesity”
Have you heard about our research on adult social care?
HEU’s Phil Kinghorn reflects on the challenges of conducting research in adult social care, and introduces some of the research being conducted by the Health Economics Unit. A thirst for (the right?) knowledge: We don’t need to look very far to illustrate the pressures facing local authorities (151 of which have responsibility for adult social … Continue reading “Have you heard about our research on adult social care?”
HEUnews Autum/Winter 2023
Welcome Hello, and welcome to the latest HEUnews! Autumn and Winter might not be seasons that you associate with growth and new beginnings, but that is very much the theme of this issue of HEUnews. As you will have seen from the previous issue of HEUnews (and from social media), Hareth Al-Janabi is settling in … Continue reading “HEUnews Autum/Winter 2023”
HEU Blog July 2023
Welcome Welcome to this month’s HEU News! It’s all change here in HEU, following the promotion of our previous Head of Unit, Professor Tracy Roberts, to the role of Institute Director for the Institute of Applied Health Research. You may have heard via social media that Professors Hareth Al-Janabi and Sue Jowett have now taken … Continue reading “HEU Blog July 2023”
HEU Blog May 2023
A warm welcome to this month’s HEU Blog. HEU is a hive of activity! In terms of teaching, our current MSc cohort are transitioning from completion of their taught modules to beginning work on their dissertations. And in the World of research, various HEU staff are writing up their papers having had abstracts accepted for … Continue reading “HEU Blog May 2023”
December 2022
Welcome by Tracy Roberts, Head of Unit Welcome, blah, Christmas, blah, blah… Actually, we jest, no bah humbug really, as we are delighted to present our Christmas edition of the HEU Blog. Even though Christmas (and its associated over-indulgence) is not quite upon us yet, HEU has already significantly grown in size and in this … Continue reading “December 2022”
HEU to host two events at November’s Festival of Social Science: Booking now available!
What’s it worth? The value of our local spaces for our health and wellbeing The team of the Centre for Economics of Obesity is hosting a Festival of Social Science event on 5 November 2022. The event aims to understand which environmental factors are enablers or barriers to being physically active. Participants will be encouraged … Continue reading “HEU to host two events at November’s Festival of Social Science: Booking now available!”
HEUnews: Spring 2022
Welcome A warm welcome to this Spring issue of HEUnews. In this issue we celebrate Emma Frew’s Inaugral Lecture, introduce two already familiar names as HEU’s new Programme Lead and Deputy Programme Lead for our MSc Health Economics Programmes, and shine a spotlight on two NIHR funded research projects. The first research project is being … Continue reading “HEUnews: Spring 2022”
HEUnews: Winter 2021
Welcome Welcome to this second online issue of HEUnews. This issue illustrates the diversity of ongoing research in HEU: in particular, we highlight projects on air quality improvement and care home closures. Further illustrating the range of ongoing research, we welcome new HEU staff to the Centre for Economics of Obesity, an NIHR funded initiative … Continue reading “HEUnews: Winter 2021”