Health Economics MPhil

Our PhD/MPhil Health Economics programme enables you to undertake a research project that will improve understanding of Health Economics.<br/><br/>Our main research themes within health economics apply or develop economic methods to understand<br/><br/><br/>- incentives and provider performance;<br/><br/><br/>- equity in healthcare and geographical resource allocation;<br/><br/><br/>- workforce planning and determinants of labour supply;<br/><br/><br/>- measurement and valuation of preferences for benefits of healthcare;<br/><br/><br/>- determinants of variation in healthcare costs and benefits;<br/><br/><br/>- economic evaluation of complex cross-therapeutic interventions;<br/><br/><br/>- utilisation of routinely collected data across health and social care to value costs and benefits in economic evaluation;<br/><br/><br/>- causal analysis of complex interventions, complex needs and less-regulated (mainly diagnostic) services;<br/><br/><br/>- innovative study design to take account of complexity in intervention design and increase in emphasis on integration of <br/><br/><br/> health and social care;<br/><br/><br/>The research covers a number of clinical areas, including for example, ageing, mental health, precision medicine and patient safety.