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April 2020 HERU newsletter
The April 2020 HERU newsletter has been published. In the newsletter we reflect on the relevance of some of our recent research to the COVID-19 pandemic and highlight studies around employment insecurity; individual and community values; and ICU decision making. We also consider some of the workforce planning issues facing...
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Making decisions about who to admit to intensive care - latest HERU Blog
The latest HERU Blog post looks at our research, in collaboration with the University of Warwick Medical School, to develop a Decision Support Pack to guide doctors' decisions on which patients to admit to intensive care. HERU researchers ran a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to identify the factors important to...
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HERU Blog post - Economic insecurity and population mental health in the COVID-19 era
The latest HERU Blog post discusses our research on the link between mental health and economic insecurity. In the blog post Dr Daniel Kopasker of HERU highlights the mental health ramifications of increased economic insecurity due to the COVID-19 crisis. The research identifies that suitable policy and workplace responses to reduce...
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HERU Blog post on giving a patients a voice in rare disease research
The latest HERU Blog post looks at the importance of 'Giving patients a voice in rare disease research'. We highlight ongoing work in HERU where we are undertaking an economic evaluation of genome-scale testing for the diagnosis of rare disorders in Scotland. The research aims to understand if genome-scale testing...
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2019 HERU Annual Report
The 2019 HERU Annual Report is available. The report highlights some key achievements over 2019, provides an overview of the Unit’s activities and details the research we are undertaking across the Unit’s four research themes. It also details our publications, the projects we are working on, and our capacity building...
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Save the Date! DCE Course in Banff, Canada, March 2021
Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics: Theoretical and Practical Issues HERU and the O’Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary are running a short course on 'Using Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) in health economics', from 8th-10th March 2021 at the Banff Conference Centre, Alberta, Canada. The aims of the short course are...
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Welcome back to HERU to Ben Sakowksy
We're very pleased to welcome Dr Ruben Sakowsky back to HERU. Ben recently completed his PhD in HERU and has now started as a Research Fellow in the Unit for four months. Ben will work on the qualitative component of a project that aims to analyse data on individual and...
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HERU Blog post on obesity interventions
The latest HERU Blog post is entitled, 'Interventions for severe obesity: value for money?' and looks at the REBALANCE (REview of Behaviour And Lifestyle interventions for severe obesity: AN evidenCE synthesis) project. The study examined different treatments for severe obesity and identified bariatric surgery as the most cost-effective intervention. The...
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SHE launch event and survey results - HERU blog post
We've published a HERU Blog post looking back at the launch event of the Scottish Health Economics (SHE) group. SHE is a collaboration of health economists from Scotland’s universities, NHS and government. The aim of SHE is to support, promote and further develop health economics in Scotland. The launch event,...
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Welcome to Mesfin, and visiting students
Welcome to Dr Mesfin Genie who has joined HERU as a Research Fellow. Mesfin was previously a visiting PhD student in HERU for six months in 2017/18. Initially, Mesfin will be working on a project researching the impact of the cost attribute on choice behaviour using choice experiment and eye-tracking...