Tag: Health economics

This report by the Welsh Parliament Senedd Research explores the challenging social, economic and public policy issues of the day in Wales, including hospital waiting times and the backlog in […]

It aims to inform national, regional and local decision makers in Wales, particularly those involved in the allocation and management of future regional funding schemes. The report contains key insights […]

Gambling is increasingly being recognised as a public health priority. Recent years have seen a rapid growth in the availability and advertising of gambling, driven by factors including relaxed gambling […]

The report focuses on contemporary population health concerns related to diets where taxation has been considered or implemented elsewhere, and/or is a viable innovation within the Welsh context. Excluded from […]

In this paper, the economic importance of the healthcare sector to the Welsh economy is explored. We use a large number of data sources for the UK and Welsh economy […]

This report examines the interaction between mental and financial health among ethnic minority ethnic groups. It provides some key examples of the specific challenges people from minoritised ethnic groups can […]

This article presents the  Geneva Charter for Well-being and discusses the well-being concepts and ideas, relevant to policy-making. It also presents four case studies bridging the concepts with policy and political realities.

This report quantifies the cost of health inequalities in England by presenting the avoidable deaths due to health inequalities. The findings demonstrate how not addressing the trends in health inequalities […]

This report by Liverpool John Moores University identifies and measures the costs of violence to the healthcare system in Wales, using cost-of-illness (COI) methods. It concludes that violence imposes a […]

This study investigated the correlation between the full implementation of the UK Government’s ‘welfare reform’ program reductions in social security payments by 2016 and life expectancy across local authorities in […]