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Economics has been described as " the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management" ( http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/ ). In this case the "goods and services" are those of healthcare.

Subcategories

• Evidence Based Health Technology

Resources in This Category

• Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health

  http://www.cadth.ca/
  Independent, not-for-profit organization providing unbiased, reliable information about health technologies.

• Centre For Medical Technology Assessment at Lindkoping University

  http://www.cmt.liu.se/
  The organisations objective is to carry out assessment studies of medical technologies from the medical, social, economic and ethical points of view.

• Diabetes Health Economics Group

  http://www.pitt.edu/~tjs/diabecon.html
  Seeks to enhance communication about economic issues in diabetes care, and establish collaborative efforts in the reporting and dissemination of related economics research.

• Health Affairs

  http://www.healthaffairs.org/
  Health policy journal publishing original, peer-reviewed research and commentary.

• Health Reform Online Home

  http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/health
  The World Bank's online resource center on health sector reform efforts around the world.

• International Health Economics Association

  http://www.healtheconomics.org/
  iHEA has been formed to increase communication among health economists, foster a higher standard of debate in the application of economics to health and health care systems.

• Journal of Health Economics

  http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-health-economics/
  Full text now available of this very influential health economics journal.

• NHS Centre For Reviews and Dissemination

  http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/
  Information on how to undertake systematic reviews, together with databases of review appraisals.

• Nordic Cochrane Centre

  http://www.cochrane.dk/
  The Nordic Cochrane Centre is part of The Cochrane Collaboration, an international network of individuals and institutions committed to preparing, maintaining, and disseminating systematic reviews of the effects of health care.

• Office of Health Economics

  http://www.ohe.org/
  The Office of Health Economics aims to commission and undertake research on the economics of health, collect and analyse health and health care data from the United Kingdom and other countries and disseminate the results.

• StatNotes: Online Textbook in Statistics

  http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/PA765/statnote.htm
  Good information for Health Economists on different methods of qualitative regression techniques, including multinomial dependent variable methods.

• The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

  http://www.nice.org.uk/
  Evidence-based guidance, advice and information services for health, public health and social care professionals.

• The Rand Organisation

  http://www.rand.org/
  Seminal information about health care in the USA and its financing. The Rand organisation is concerned with a wide range of Health Economics Research.

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