By Professor Hareth Al-Janabi, Dr Igor Shagalov and Dr Yibei Qu In recent years, schools in England have taken on a growing role in supporting students’ mental health and wellbeing. But with tight budgets and limited time, school leaders face difficult choices about how to allocate resources. Whether it is staff time, physical space, or … Continue reading “How and Why Schools Invest in Mental Health: Evidence from the WISE Study”
The Economics of Air Pollution and the Environment
James Hall and Sue Jowett provide an update on their ongoing work to adapt health economic methods to support local authorities in understanding the impacts of environmental policymaking. Their research focuses on integrating economic evaluation into decision-making processes, ensuring that environmental policies are also assessed for their broader health and economic implications. Air pollution and … Continue reading “The Economics of Air Pollution and the Environment”
Health Economics Unit round up of 2024
Head of HEU, Hareth Al-Janabi, highlights upcoming research funded in the Health Economics Unit in 2024, PhD successes, comings and goings from the unit and challenges ahead. New projects In HEU we have broad research interests (Health Economics Unit – University of Birmingham), but with a particular focus on innovation within health economics. This can … Continue reading “Health Economics Unit round up of 2024”
Health Economics Capacity Building University of Birmingham
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”