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This guide is a starting point for clinical staff interested in health economics. It provides access to online resources and collections for this discipline and related areas of study.
This guide will link to resources for information in the following areas -
What is health economics?
With unlimited needs, yet scare resources, health economics is concerned with the distribution of these resources (e.g. capital, labour, material, time). Choices have to be made about what needs are most important and where resources should be distributed.
Australian Health Economics Society http://www.ahes.org.au/
International Health Economics Society https://www.healtheconomics.org/
CREST (Cancer Research Economics Support Team) http://www.crest.uts.edu.au/health-economics/index.html
IHPA (Independent Hospital Pricing Authority) https://www.ihpa.gov.au/
Health Services Research Association Au.NZ http://www.hsraanz.org/
York Health Economics Consortium (UK) http://www.yhec.co.uk/tools-resources/
The Economics of Health and Health Care by 
Introduction to Health Economics by
This practical text offers the ideal introduction to the economic techniques used in public health.
Policy Innovation for Health by
The pressure for policy innovation shifts from a focus on the health care system to a reorganization of how we approach health in 21st century societies. This change calls for new mechanisms through which we conduct health policy and it calls for an inclusion of many actors in the policy process: health care providers, policy makers from many sectors, communities, consumers, patients and the private sector.
Applied Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Healthcare by
The third volume in the Handbooks in Health Economic Evaluation series, this book provides the reader with a comprehensive set of instructions and examples of how to perform an economic evaluation of a health intervention. It focuses solely on cost-effectiveness analysis in health care.
Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes by 
Economic Evaluation in Clinical Trials by 
Essentials of Health Economics by
This book examines the public healthcare system through the lens of economic theory. It provides examples and profiles related to the field for undderstanding the importance of health economics and relevance to health policy issues.
Analysis of Waiting-Time Data in Health Services Research by
ccess to care, patient flow, treatment outcomes—each of these indicators is crucial to determining quality of care in health systems, and the length of time that patients wait for surgery unites them all. Presenting a detailed set of statistical concepts and methods, Analysis of Waiting-Time Data in Health Services Research asks critical questions linking waiting times to health care outcomes
Care at the End of Life : an economic perspective by
This work carefully guides the reader through the methodological, policy and ethical challenges facing health economists conducting research in palliative care.
Patient Flow by
Patient Flow: Reducing Delay in Healthcare Delivery is dedicated to improving healthcare through reducing the delays experienced by patients.
Reflecting the highly interdisciplinary and practitioner nature of this book, the chapters have been written by doctors, nurses, industrial engineers, system engineers and geographers, and thus, these perspectives provide the comprehensive view needed to address the problem of patient delay.
Comparative Effectiveness Research by
This major reference work aims to be a source of information
for everyone who seeks to develop an understanding of health services and health systems, and learn about the historic, political, and economic factors that influence health policies at global, national, regional, and local levels. The
intended readership includes graduate students, educators, researchers, healthcare professionals, policymakers, and service administrators
CABRINI AUTHORED PAPERS
Pereira-Salgado A, Watts JJ. Should there be an MBS item number for advance care planning? The Medical Journal of Australia. 2017 May 15;206(9):412.
Brusco NK, Taylor NF, Watts JJ, Shields N. Economic evaluation of adult rehabilitation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials in a variety of settings. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation. 2014 Jan 31;95(1):94-116.
Brusco NK, Watts JJ, Shields N, Taylor NF. Are weekend inpatient rehabilitation services value for money? An economic evaluation alongside a randomized controlled trial with a 30 day follow up. BMC medicine. 2014 May 29;12(1):89.
ADDITIONAL READINGS
Husereau Don, et al. Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS) statement BMJ 2013; 346 :f1049
Husereau D, Drummond M, Petrou S, Carswell C, Moher D, Greenberg D, Augustovski F, Briggs AH, Mauskopf J, Loder E, ISPOR Health Economic Evaluation Publication Guidelines-CHEERS Good Reporting Practices Task Force. Consolidated health economic evaluation reporting standards (CHEERS)—explanation and elaboration: a report of the ISPOR health economic evaluation publication guidelines good reporting practices task force. Value in Health. 2013 Apr 30;16(2):231-50.
Johnson RF, Lancsar E, Marshall D, Kilambi V, Mühlbacher A, Regier DA, et al. Constructing Experimental Designs for Discrete-Choice Experiments: Report of the ISPOR Conjoint Analysis Experimental Design Good Research Practices Task Force. Value in health. 2013;16. doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2012.08.2223.
Bridges JFP, Hauber AB, Marshall D, Lloyd A, Prosser LA, Regier DA, et al. Conjoint analysis applications in health–a checklist: a report of the ISPOR Good Research Practices for Conjoint Analysis Task Force. Value in health 2011;14. doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2010.11.013.