Library

Curated publications, recorded media, and practitioner tools for health economics research — filtered by topic or searched by keyword.

Publications

Peer-reviewed papers, authoritative textbooks, guidelines, and technical reports.

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  • Book
    2015

    Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes

    Drummond, Sculpher, Claxton, Stoddart, Torrance · Oxford University Press

    The standard reference text for health economic evaluation. Covers cost-effectiveness, cost-utility, and cost-benefit analysis with worked examples from international HTA practice.

    • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
    • QALY & HRQoL
    • HTA & Policy
  • Guideline
    2022

    NICE Technology Appraisals Process and Methods Guide

    National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

    The authoritative methodological reference for technology appraisal submissions to NICE England. Defines acceptable evidence standards for cost-per-QALY submissions.

    • HTA & Policy
    • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
    • QALY & HRQoL
  • Book
    2006

    Decision Modelling for Health Economic Evaluation

    Briggs, Sculpher, Claxton · Oxford University Press

    A rigorous treatment of decision-analytic modelling for health economics, covering Markov models, probabilistic sensitivity analysis, and value of information methods.

    • Economic Modelling
    • Decision Science
    • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
  • Report Series

    ISPOR Good Research Practices Task Force Reports

    ISPOR

    A series of consensus statements covering best practices in health technology assessment modelling, indirect treatment comparisons, and budget impact analysis.

    • Economic Modelling
    • Evidence Synthesis
    • HTA & Policy
  • Journal Article
    2020

    Measuring and Valuing Health: EQ-5D and NICE Reference Case

    Health Technology Assessment

    Examines the EQ-5D instrument as the preferred measure for deriving utility weights in cost-utility analysis, with commentary on mapping algorithms and tariff selection.

    • QALY & HRQoL
    • HTA & Policy
  • Report
    2023

    Global Burden of Disease Study — Health Economics Perspective

    Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

    An accessible summary of how GBD disability weights and DALYs relate to health economic evaluation, including cross-country comparisons of burden by disease category.

    • Health Systems
    • QALY & HRQoL
    • Evidence Synthesis

Media

Recorded lectures, webinars, podcasts, and video explainers.

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  • Video Series

    ISPOR Annual Meeting Recorded Sessions

    ISPOR

    Free access to recorded presentations from ISPOR's annual and European congresses, covering advances in modelling, real-world evidence, and HTA policy.

    • Economic Modelling
    • HTA & Policy
    • Evidence Synthesis
  • Webinar Archive

    HTAi Webinar Library

    HTAi

    Archive of Health Technology Assessment International webinars on topics from patient involvement in HTA to adaptive pathways and managed entry agreements.

    • HTA & Policy
    • Decision Science
  • Podcast

    The HEOR Podcast

    Interviews with leading health economists and HEOR practitioners. Episodes cover value demonstration, digital health economics, and market access strategy.

    • HTA & Policy
    • Pharmaceuticals
    • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
  • Lecture Series

    Centre for Health Economics — Public Lectures

    University of York, Centre for Health Economics

    Recorded public lectures from CHE York on cost-effectiveness thresholds, opportunity cost, and the social value of health. Rigorous and policy-relevant.

    • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
    • Decision Science
    • Health Systems

Tools & Resources

Software, databases, calculators, templates, and open decision models.

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  • Software
    2023

    heemod — R Package for Health Economic Modelling

    Open-source R package for building Markov and partitioned survival models. Supports deterministic and probabilistic sensitivity analysis, EVPI, and value of information.

    • Economic Modelling
    • Decision Science
    • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
  • Model Repository

    Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) Decision Models

    University of Oxford HERC

    Repository of publicly available decision-analytic models from the University of Oxford HERC group, covering musculoskeletal conditions, mental health, and vaccines.

    • Economic Modelling
    • Evidence Synthesis
  • Database

    WHO-CHOICE Cost-Effectiveness Database

    World Health Organization

    Standardised cost-effectiveness estimates for more than 700 health interventions across 14 sub-regions, facilitating cross-country comparisons using generalised CEA.

    • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
    • Health Systems
    • HTA & Policy
  • Calculator / Tool
    2022

    EQ-5D Value Sets & Crosswalk Tool

    EuroQol Research Foundation

    Official EuroQol mapping and crosswalk tools for converting EQ-5D-3L to EQ-5D-5L utility scores, applying national value sets, and estimating QALYs in trial analyses.

    • QALY & HRQoL
    • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
  • Database

    HTA Database (INAHTA/CRD)

    INAHTA / University of York CRD

    Searchable repository of completed health technology assessments from INAHTA member agencies, maintained by York's Centre for Reviews and Dissemination.

    • HTA & Policy
    • Evidence Synthesis
  • Template
    2021

    PSA Toolkit for Excel — probabilistic sensitivity analysis

    An open Excel template implementing common PSA distribution families (beta, gamma, log-normal, Dirichlet) with Monte Carlo sampling and cost-effectiveness plane output.

    • Economic Modelling
    • Decision Science
    • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
  • Technical Guide Series

    NICE Decision Support Unit Technical Support Documents

    NICE DSU

    A series of authoritative technical guides covering network meta-analysis, survival modelling, partitioned survival models, and costing in NICE submissions.

    • Evidence Synthesis
    • Economic Modelling
    • HTA & Policy