Useful Health Economics links, including blogs and resources (updated April 2018)

We have compiled a list of useful blogs and resources, which may help you stay on top of the evolving world of health economics and outcomes research. It’s by no means a complete list, we will be adding interesting new sites continuously. We hope you find this helpful.

Blogs:

https://aheblog.com/ – Blog with several contributors covering many aspects of health economics, including weekly journal update.

http://scharrheds.blogspot.se/ – Blog from the Health Economics and Decision Science department at University of Sheffield.

https://newsatjama.jama.com/category/the-jama-forum/ – The Jama Forum, primarily with a US focus, on health policies and politics, economics and law.

https://www.rand.org/blog.topic.health-economics.html – Also with a US focus.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmunos/#67d6aaa57a23 – Pharmaceutical innovations.

New blogs added to the list (April 2018):

https://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/ – A blog about the US health care system and its organization. Updated weekly.

http://www.statistica.it/gianluca/blog/ – Bayesian statistics, health economics and random stuff.

Resources:

http://www.healtheconomics.com/ – Blog and newsletter resource.

https://healtheconbot.wordpress.com/ – Bot searching the web for health economics news and journals.

https://www.ispor.org/ – ISPOR homepage.

https://euroqol.org/ – EuroQoL homepage.

New resources added to the list (April 2018):

https://link.springer.com/journal/10198 – The European Journal of Health Economics.

https://www.nice.org.uk – NICE – Globally influential British health technology assessor and developer of care guidance.

http://nicedsu.org.uk – NICE Decision Support Unit – methods development for technology appraisals.

http://healtheconomics.tuftsmedicalcenter.org/cear4/SearchingtheCEARegistry/SearchtheCEARegistry.aspx – Search engine from Tufts University for health economic articles, ratios, and utility weights.

https://www.york.ac.uk/crd – York Centre for Reviews and Dissemination – Systematic reviews, economic evaluations, and methods development.

https://www.herc.ox.ac.uk – Oxford University Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) – conducts research on economic aspects of health and disease, the costs and benefits of prevention and treatment, and the design and evaluation of health systems.

http://www.who.int/choice/en – WHO Health Economics webpage.

Coding aid (New category April 2018):

https://www.r-bloggers.com/ – R news and tutorials.

https://www.lexjansen.com/ – Excellent online SAS resources.

https://www.stata.com/links/resources-for-learning-stata/ – Stata resources and training.

Twitter accounts to start with (new category April 2018):

@HealthEconBot – A bot tweeting HE news, articles and working papers.

@NYTHealth – Health news from NY Times.

@www_healthecon – Twitter account of HealthEconomics.com.

@SGottliebFDA – Twitter account of Scott Gottlieb, Commissioner of the FDA.

@NICEcomms – NICE official Twitter account.