Health Economics at Lancaster (HEAL)

Health Economics at Lancaster (HEAL) is a research group based at Lancaster University. HEAL is based within the Division of Health Research in the Faculty of Health and Medicine and has strong collaborative links with the Department of Economics (Lancaster University Management School).

The primary objectives of HEAL are the development and application of quantitative research methods capable of informing health policy-making through empirical evidence and contributing to the academic and policy debate. The work undertaken by HEAL aims at having an impact of people's wellbeing and society as a whole.

Current areas of research include:

efficiency and productivity measurement
economic determinants of health
quality of life
health econometrics
economic evaluation of interventions
the economics of prevention
primary and public health
health behaviours
health economics applied in less developed and middle income countries

News

Paolo Li Donni (University of Palermo) will present a paper about "The welfare cost of unpriced heterogeneity in insurance markets" on the 22nd May 2013
Peter C Smith (Imperial College London) will give a presentation on the 1st May 2013
Health Economics at Lancaster (HEAL) launch and presentation at the Division of Health Research on the 4th of March 2013

People

Associated Staff

Affiliated PhD students

Bruce Hollingsworth also runs the official International Health Economics Association (iHEA) e-mail discussion list.

Contact

Eugenio Zucchelli
Lecturer in Health Economics
Lancaster University
Furness College
LA1 4YG UK
Email: e.zucchelli@lancaster.ac.uk