Sentences with phrase «health economist»

Cost effectiveness is a measure of broad social benefit that health economists use to make decisions about whether medical treatments are warranted.

I first met him 3 or 4 years ago and he was serving as a mentor to a group of health economists at Sydney Uni.

Hopefully, this blog encourages health economists with an interest in this area to share ideas and discuss the various challenges that arise when applying standard health economic methods in this interesting and rapidly evolving field.

«Gavin was one of Australia's leading health economists who used his knowledge and skills to improve the lives of the disadvantaged in Australia and around the world,» Ms Prue Power AM, CEO of the AHHA, said today.

«We found that these programs promoted independent living in the community among people who had serious mental illness but had not been served or underserved previously,» said Jangho Yoon, an assistant professor of health policy and health economist in OSU's College of Public Health and Human Sciences and lead author of the study.

She is a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton, one of the leading health economists of her generation, and has been elected a fellow of the Econometric Society.

United Kingdom About Blog The Academic Health Economists» Blog exists to provide an on - line presence for the discussion of issues and developments in health economics.

I first met Gavin when he became a mentor to our new team of health economists at the University of Sydney in 2008.

On the ABC's AM program, Sophie Scott spoke with health economist Professor Philip Clarke about how to save health dollars without weakening our primary care system.

«An intervention to reduce WFC can enhance both employees» health and employers» business,» according to the new research, led by health economist Carolina Barbosa, PhD, of RTI International, Chicago.

Philadelphia About Blog Find updates on healthcare technology from Health economist, advisor, communicator, and trend weaver.

For more valuable insight into the Novartis drug and the pay - for - performance model, make sure to check out this new piece from renowned medical oncologist David Agus and health economist Dana Goldman.

Steve Morgan is a renowned Canadian health economist whose work promotes universal access to appropriately prescribed, affordably priced, and equitably financed medications.

A controversial fund for expensive new cancer medicines is good for big pharma but has brought real harm for patients, says health economist Karl Claxton

Now, health economist Janet Currie at Princeton University and her colleagues have tried to overcome those problems by looking at birth certificates for all 1.1 million infants born in Pennsylvania between 2004 and 2013 — a period that spanned the drilling of thousands of fracking wells in the state, which now has more than 10,000 of them.

The analysis, by Dean Jamison, PhD, a global health economist at UC San Francisco (UCSF); Lawrence Summers, PhD, a former US Treasury Secretary now at Harvard University; and researchers at SEEK Development in Berlin and the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, is the first in - depth study of how donor funding is spent on global versus country - specific functions of health.

She is also a founding and current board member of the American Society for Health Economists.

Diabetic complications cost almost $ 10,000 per patient each year, concluded the author of that study, Willard Manning, PhD, a University of Chicago health economist.

This analysis comes by way of Jonathan Gruber, an M.I.T. health economist who was cited in the above report, and who concludes, «So what that means is that while the cheaper firms will lose, they will lose by less than the most expensive firms gain.

Our consultants regularly meet with many of the leading employers in the sector to understand their recruitment needs and wider business objectives, meaning Hays are able to offer a variety of jobs which include HEOR Manager jobs, Senior Health Economist jobs, HEOR Consultant jobs and HEOR Analyst jobs.

During his time at Curtin (University), Mooney trained five Aboriginal health economists — a remarkable achievement and a reflection of his commitment to Aboriginal health.

I publicly dedicated a song to «Tasmania's «newest health economist», a dedication no doubt unique in history.

He developed with other health economists including Culyer the concepts of vertical (positive discrimination for those in unequal circumstances) and horizontal equity (giving equal care to those in the same socioeconomic bracket) as applied to health.

There was no disjoint with Gavin; the qualities which made him Australia's most respected left - leaning health economist (is any other kind worth listening to?)

In a 2011 study, Dr. Melissa Ahern (health economist at Washington State University), Dr. Michael Hendryx, (epidemiologist at West Virginia University) and their colleagues found «significantly higher» rates of birth defects in communities near MTR operations.

Meanwhile, Des Martin, CEO of the Aboriginal Health Council of WA and health economist Professor Gavin Mooney, have raised some concerns about the PM's report on Closing the Gap, also released this week.

A recent study published in the Aug. 21, 2013 Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, and conducted by health economists, has confirmed that TKR is a cost - effective treatment for patients with end - stage osteoarthritis.

As part of writing the review, Gavin interviewed leading health economists from around the world (Australia, The Netherlands, Sweden, United States, Scotland, England, Denmark, Wales, and Canada).

A scheme launched by the Department of Health in 2011 to help patients stick to their drug regimens has been so successful, that in its first five years, it will save NHS England # 517.6 m in the long - term, a team of health economists has found.

Dana Goldman, a health economist, is the director of the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics.

Some health economists and insurance companies are also seeking a change from fee - for - service to an outcome - based model, offering incentives for successful and efficient treatments.

Amitabh Chandra, a health economist at Harvard, said that perhaps the easiest way to squeeze a lot of dollars out of the health care system would be to reduce what he called «low - value services» — health care treatments that are expensive, but only slightly more effective than cheaper options.

«It's not going to transform the economy unless they then share all of those ideas and best practices with their competitors,» said Craig Garthwaite, a health economist who teaches corporate strategy at the Kellogg School at Northwestern.

Gonzalez said three are immigrants; jurors» occupations include flight attendant, software engineer, nurse, marketing accountant and health economist; and they live in a variety of neighborhoods, from Visitacion Valley, Bernal Heights and the Excelsior to the Mission District, Russian Hill and Nob Hill.

Insurers, and some health economists, cheered the section that found consolidation leads to an increase in pricing.

More recently, David Bradford, a health economist at the University of Georgia in Athens, and his daughter Ashley, a master's student there, sought to investigate whether marijuana was supplanting conventional drugs in states where it's legal.

Roger Bate, a health economist and HIV expert at the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank in Washington DC, says that he is not yet persuaded by the studies suggesting that treatment prevents transmission.

She holds an adjunct investigator position as a health economist at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research in Bedford, Massachusetts.

There were three M.D.s, all Republican congressmen who opposed the administrations plans, but no public health specialists, health economists, speakers for civil society, leaders of health maintenance organizations or representatives of other health care organizations.

While Johnson works to extract data from traditional clinical trials, Anirban Basu, a health economist at the University of Chicago in Illinois, focuses on a new kind of clinical trial.

«We were surprised by the high probability of developing CKD during a lifetime,» said Thomas Hoerger, Ph.D., a health economist and senior fellow at RTI and the paper's lead author.

«The cost of asthma is one of the most important measures of the burden of the disease,» said Tursynbek Nurmagambetov, PhD, lead study author and health economist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.