Health System

Health System features information about how health systems work and the potential economic value of integrated care systems.

Health Payers

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Using Health Economics to set Priorities for Essential Health Benefits: The Case for Including The Impact On Economic Productivity

Governments and health insurance providers use pooled funds to purchase essential health benefits for their citizens or insured populations ...
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What Are Essential Health Benefits? A Simple Guide

Essential Health Benefits: Governments and health insurers use pooled funds to purchase health benefits for their citizens or insured populations ...
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Health Financing Explained: Provider Payment Models

Providers (such as hospitals and doctors) need to be paid for the health care services they provide. This can be ...
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Health Financing Explained: Risk Pooling

Risk Pooling requires funds gathered at scale can be pooled together in a way that allows them to be used ...
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Health Financing Explained: Revenue Sources

Revenue sources can be done at scale through government contributions, taxes, social insurance contributions, private insurance contributions, or philanthropic contributions ...

Health Providers

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Economic Workforce Planning: Treating People as Assets, Not Costs

In this article, we’ll argue that, despite recent history, treating healthcare staff as a cost and not an asset needs ...
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The Healthcare Workforce: A Simple Guide

The terms healthcare workforce or healthcare professionals cover a vast array of disciplines and professional practices. There are over 350 ...
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What Is Social Care? A Simple Guide

In this economic lens we look at what social care is and who might need it, the relationship between social ...
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What Are The Different Types of Healthcare Providers? A Simple Guide

This article looks at the ownership structures of the different types of healthcare providers ...
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What are Levels of Care? A Simple Guide

Levels of care describe the severity of an issue and the kinds of health conditions the doctors treat as well ...
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The Economic Value of a Healthy Health Workforce

Health professionals are expensive to train, recruit, and provide cover for when absent. We look at the economic cost to ...
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Workforce Planning and Economic Value

Workforce planning in health isn’t just about getting the numbers right, it is about maximising the economic value of our ...

Healthcare Delivery

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Medical Technology ‘Med Tech’: Health Economic Value Explained

Medical Technology - Med Tech is a rapidly growing sector with numerous innovations emerging every day. This technology has the ...
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Pharmaceutical Value Explained

The pharmaceutical industry is a significant contributor to the global economy and to health systems and health care across the ...

Integrated Care Systems

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Integrated Care Systems: Value Case For Child Health Hubs

Integrated care systems for children can provide significant benefits for children and their families, for those working with children across ...
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Integrated Healthcare for Children: The Child Health Hub

An "ideal" child health integrated healthcare system can be described as one that acknowledges the distinct requirements of children, young ...
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The Value Of Care Pathways Explained

Integrated care is increasingly underpinned by formal pre-defined care pathways for individuals with complex needs who need support from a ...

Education & Training

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Educating & Training The Healthcare Workforce: An Overview

The Healthcare Workforce The healthcare workforce is an integral part of any successful health system. There are many different professions ...

Research & Development

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Health Research And Development: An Overview

Why is there Research And Development in Healthcare? Health research and development is really important to the health sector. It ...
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The Health Economics of Patient Safety

Patient safety is a top priority for patients, healthcare professionals, healthcare provider organisations, those that purchase healthcare on behalf of ...

Governance & Regulation

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Stakeholders In Healthcare: An Overview

What Is A Stakeholder In Healthcare? Stakeholders are individuals or groups who have an interest in a sector, such as ...
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The Health Economics of Patient Safety

Patient safety is a top priority for patients, healthcare professionals, healthcare provider organisations, those that purchase healthcare on behalf of ...

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