Health Economics

Our PhD/MPhil Health Economics programme enables you to undertake a research project that will improve understanding of Health Economics.

Our main research themes within health economics apply or develop economic methods to understand

- incentives and provider performance;

- equity in healthcare and geographical resource allocation;

- workforce planning and determinants of labour supply;

- measurement and valuation of preferences for benefits of healthcare;

- determinants of variation in healthcare costs and benefits;

- economic evaluation of complex cross-therapeutic interventions;

- utilisation of routinely collected data across health and social care to value costs and benefits in economic evaluation;

- causal analysis of complex interventions, complex needs and less-regulated (mainly diagnostic) services;

- innovative study design to take account of complexity in intervention design and increase in emphasis on integration of

health and social care;

The research covers a number of clinical areas, including for example, ageing, mental health, precision medicine and patient safety.