Lost In Translation: 2nd & 3rd December 2014
Health Economics in Public Health Policy and Practice
2nd & 3rd December 2014
Hilton Glasgow Grosvenor
Glasgow, G12 0TA
Health economics has much to say about current challenges in public health policy and practice in Scotland. Whether it is the shift to prevention and its potential to reduce both health inequalities and failure demand for services dealing with health and social problems, or the integration of social care to provide cost-effective services better suited to people’s health and social care needs, health economics has tools and evidence that can help.
But is this potential being realised? Are we using frameworks and methods best suited to inform policy and practice? Are we working with the people we need to? Can we actually build economics into management processes? Does the emphasis on reducing health inequality conflict with the efficiency goals central to health economics?
This workshop, arranged by HENS members for HENS members, will explore these issues in detail. Drawing on examples of economic analyses of current public health policies and programmes, it will bring together an invited audience of academics, policy makers and practitioners from around Scotland and the rest of the UK, to identify the challenges and develop solutions to help translate economics evidence into practice.
The HENS network aims to facilitate collaboration between the policy and practice communities across the health and social care system and health economics academic departments. It is funded by Scottish Government.
To do this, HENS aims to support the development and application of health economics knowledge and skills across the NHS and wider public and third sectors in Scotland. The network is open to anyone working in, or interested in, the application of HE to:
- the economics of prevention and population health
- improving quality, sustainability and effectiveness in health care services
The network will undertake activities such as:
- providing a forum for sharing knowledge and skills amongst HENS members
- supporting work to increasing existing HE skills in the health system (including but beyond the health care sectors) in Scotland
- helping to identify and use HE evidence
- undertaking specific projects related to the economics of prevention, population health interventions or health and social care services