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This page provides links to descriptions of activities, reports, news and events, as well as contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO programmes and offices working on this topic. Also shown are links to related web sites and topics.
The Office of Health Economics provides independent research, advisory and consultancy services on policy implications and economic issues within the pharmaceutical, health care and biotechnology sectors. The OHE has an international reputation, for the quality and independence of its research, which is safeguarded through our Policy Board and Editorial Board.
Health economics deals with several areas of resource allocation: the best way to finance health care systems, the supply and demand for health, valuing health and assessing the relationship between health and its social and economic determinants, as an aid to management of health services and microeconomic evaluation.
This class is a Continuing Education workshop by Moira Napper, University of Aberdeen Health Economics Research Unit (HERU), and Jean Newland, Lippincott Library @ Wharton, Wharton School University of PennsylvaniaThe online interactive format, review, quizzes, and related content have been developed by Laura Larsson, MLS, and Charles Hendricksen, PhD.
