Health System
Health System features information about how health systems work and the potential economic value of integrated care systems.
Health Payers
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Health Financing Explained: Strategic Purchasing
Pooled funds are used to provide strategic purchasing of health care services ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
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
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
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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
Related Articles
Financing UK Climate Change Adaptation: Can We Afford It?
The 6 essential questions you need to ask health economists when their analysis includes health outcomes.
Integrated Care Systems: Value Case For Child Health Hubs
A Simple Model for Understanding Health Inequalities
Value of Prevention
Using Health Economics to set Priorities for Essential Health Benefits: The Case for Including The Impact On Economic Productivity
Economic Workforce Planning: Treating People as Assets, Not Costs
Integrated Healthcare for Children: The Child Health Hub