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Patients with undiagnosed rare diseases often undergo a long, stressful and costly testing process. This is called the ‘diagnostic odyssey.’ Standard testing involves numerous tests, missed diagnoses, and considerable stress and uncertainty for affected individuals and families. On average, it takes 5.6 years to…
Obesity in Scotland
Severe obesity is a growing public health concern. In 2018 in Scotland, 2% of men and 5% of women were classed as morbidly obese (no data exists for severe obesity). Severe obesity leads to more hospital admissions, earlier death, and poorer quality of life due to the higher risk…
The Scottish Health Economics (SHE) group was officially launched in October 2019.
The Discovery Point in Dundee, home to the RSS Discovery, was a fitting place to launch the Scottish Health Economics (SHE) group. The idea of SHE came…
In 2019, the Methods of Benefit Valuation team in HERU delivered our ‘Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics’ course twice. The course teaches one of the most commonly used preference elicitation tools: the Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE). In 2019, we held our annual course in Aberdeen, and also held…
The number of people living with cancer in Scotland is almost quarter of a million - and growing. Many cancer survivors feel they are not getting the help they need; staff shortages in the National Health Service (NHS) could be contributing to this situation.
The Chief Executive of Macmillan Cancer…
