The group was lots of fun, the quality of papers and discussions keeps increasing and we have academics from all over joining. My wish is to have more Croatians (possibly doctoral students and ECRs) involved. So, if you know someone, spread the word! Stay tuned for the next edition!

🎓 Earlier this week, I was in Split for the 3rd edition of the Croatian Health Economics Workshop. The initiative started in 2023 when Prof. Ana Bobinac, Lana Kovacevic, and myself co-founded CHEA, aiming to develop an academic community in Croatia around the economics of health(care).

Do we spend more on hospital care in the north of England because of higher needs or higher availability? In our new paper, we took a look.... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 New paper alert 📣 Very happy to see this piece of work with The University of Manchester colleagues Joe Dodd, @lukemunford.bsky.social and @mattxsutton.bsky.social out in Labour Economics. Full paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @arc-gm.bsky.social @hope-uom.bsky.social

The effect of area-level waiting times for psychological therapies on individual-level labour market outcomes

The association between common mental health conditions, including anxiety and depression, and labour outcomes has been extensively documented. Howeve…

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Very pleased for the insightful seminar by @lukemunford.bsky.social at SUPSI today. Luke presented ongoing work in mental health and productivity in England, joint with @domignon.bsky.social S. Khavandi C. Bambra and @mattxsutton.bsky.social. @manchester.ac.uk @productivity.bsky.social

Congratulations to Eliana Chavarria Pino and Yuqi Zhang who graduated yesterday with their doctorates - an outstanding achievement! It was lovely to see you in your gowns 🎉🥂

The editorial boards of seven leading health econ journals are taking a stand today against political influence and ideological attacks on peer review and academia. No matter what you study we want to see your scholarship and will NEVER collaborate with suppression. Please repost.

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The Editorial Boards of leading health economics journals are issuing a Joint Statement of Principles on Editorial Independence. In these troubled times some scholars worry their work might suffer ideological attack. We reaffirm our commitment to unfettered scholarship. Please repost.

New in PharmacoEconomics - self-declaration misses 1 in 6 of unpaid carers compared to time diaries & may underestimate mental health impacts. Method matters when identifying informal carers! Authored by: Sean Urwin, Charles Smith & @mattxsutton.bsky.social 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Does the Informal Carer Identification Method Matter? Evidence from Self-Declaration and Time Diary Approaches - PharmacoEconomics

Objectives Impacts on informal carers are increasingly being incorporated into cost-of-illness and cost-effectiveness analyses. However, little is known about whether the method used to identify carer...

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Our report on the UK labour market for health economists is now out hesg.org.uk/download/emp...

Any human mood can be described accurately by a Mark Rothko painting.

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Tourists canceling trips to the US.

🥳🍾Congratulations to Eli Chavarria Pino who passed her viva today with minor corrections!!🎉🙌 Eli's thesis was titled: "Evaluating the effect of public health spending in low-income settings." She was supervised by: Laura Anselmi and @mattxsutton.bsky.social and funded by @nwssdtp.bsky.social

New paper: "Drivers of primary care appointment volumes before and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study" by PhD student T Zhao, supervised by Rachel Meacock and @mattxsutton.bsky.social Read it here 👇 bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Drivers of primary care appointment volumes before and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study - BMC Health Services Research

Background The COVID-19 pandemic led to significant reconfiguration of primary care systems internationally. For example, a large proportion of face-to-face appointments have been replaced by telephon...

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New paper in @socscimed with @HOPE_UoM colleagues Using interactions of area dose and individual exposure to estimate effects of population health interventions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Using interactions of area dose and individual exposure to estimate effects of population health interventions

Evaluations of natural experiments in population health studies typically construct and compare exposed and unnexposed populations classified by area …

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New paper in @socscimed with @HOPE_UoM colleagues Using interactions of area dose and individual exposure to estimate effects of population health interventions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Using interactions of area dose and individual exposure to estimate effects of population health interventions

Evaluations of natural experiments in population health studies typically construct and compare exposed and unnexposed populations classified by area …

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Here’s the chart that really nudged me to write this. The headcount of GP partners aged under 40 has fallen by 53% since 2015. Overall partner headcount down from 68% ➡️ 48% in same time. Current policy = ‘let it wither on the vine’. I’m not sure that’s right…..

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With the numbers of GP partners falling significantly, and relatively few early career GPs aspiring to the role, our new briefing from @becksfisher.bsky.social looks at whether it’s time to change the GP partnership model. www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/the...

It was 50 years ago that this groundbreaking paper by Hal Luft was published in REStat. www.jstor.org/stable/1937862

Hello World! The Editorial Board of Health Economics is pleased to announce that we are now live on the happier, friendlier, and all-together Blue-er place. Please follow us (and repost) for updates on articles and journal issues as they come out.

One striking thing about NHS Continuing Healthcare (which is only subject to a needs test, and not a financial means test) is the variation across areas -- despite a national framework. In Q1 2024/25, 9% of applicants in Herefordshire and Worcestershire were found eligible. In Dorset, it was 34%.

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NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) funding is supposed to cover care costs for people deemed to have a primary health need, but is notoriously difficult to secure - likely due to tight budgets and the ensuing struggle between health and social care as to who is responsible for care costs

Are any health economists on here going to the HESG conference in Bristol? Can't find the HESG organisation on here

VACANCY: Research Fellow in Health Economics with @hope-uom.bsky.social at University of Manchester www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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New publication from Shaolin Wang, Shing Lau, @mattxsutton.bsky.social, Michael Anderson, Laura Anselmi & colleagues. Exploring inequalities in the prevalence of 205 conditions by the setting of recording in England. Read it here 👇 bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Inequalities in the prevalence recording of 205 chronic conditions recorded in primary and secondary care for 12 million patients in the English National Health Service - BMC Medicine

Background Understanding the prevalence of diseases and where it is detected and recorded in healthcare settings is important for planning effective prevention and care provision. We examined inequali...

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VACANCY: Research Fellow in Health Economics with @hope-uom.bsky.social at University of Manchester www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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opportunity costs associated with NICE recommendations. Defo the most important h economics paper you will read today, maybe this week, maybe the year so far This is where the primary care budget gets spent A www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Over lifetime, each additional year of union membership reduces the odds of mortality by 1.5%. Effects primarily occur between ages of 41 and 67. Nice work @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Mortality Implications of a Unionized Career

An emerging literature has documented a wide range of protections and benefits that union membership provides for health and wellbeing. However, this …

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