Research Strategy of the Institute of Applied Health Sciences
The IAHS undertakes work within the broad areas of hospital based clinical disciplines, population health, health services research and health economics. We have identified three strategic themes of work where we undertake internationally competitive research. These are:
1. Symptoms and early diagnosis
- Prevalence, determinants and impact of different symptoms
- Prognostic value of symptoms and biological measurements in an individual
- Clinical usefulness and affordability of different diagnostic approaches, including new technologies
2. Evaluation of healthcare interventions
- Evidence synthesis, including health technology assessments, modeling and systematic reviewing
- Primary research, mainly large-scale randomised clinical trials, especially of non-drug technologies and complex interventions
- Health economic valuation and preference work, including contingent valuation and discrete choice experiments
3. Delivery and organisation of care
- Resource allocation
- Service delivery
- Workforce issues
Much of the work addresses issues particularly relevant to the clinical topics of musculoskeletal disease (including chronic pain), reproductive health, respiratory disease , urology eye disease, mental health, renal medicine and cancer. However our thirteen Academic Research Groups allow us to cover specialties in both clinical and non-clinical (methodological) areas of research.