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”
Author: Lin Fu
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”