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COHABS RESEARCH SHOWCASE EVENT• Professor of Health Economics and Co-Director of
CHEME• NISCHR Senior Faculty Member• Honorary contract with NHS Public Health Wales• Honorary member of Faculty of Public Health• Commonwealth fund Harkness fellow 04/05 – presenting
Harkness Alumni Policy Forum July 2014, Washington DC• Member of American Public Health Association,
presenting New Orleans, November 2014• Email - [email protected]• Twitter - @ProfRTEdwards
CHEME – Public Health Economics Research Group
• Health Economics is the study of how we use scarce resources to meet our healthcare needs
• Public Health Economics is the study of how public sector agencies (e.g. NHS and local government) who can influence our health, use resources to promote better healthCHEME public health economics research group:
My colleagues:Nathan BrayJo CharlesCarys JonesHuw Lloyd-WilliamsSeow Tien YeoNeil HaroldAnn Bowden LawtonAlison ShawJackie Williams- Bulkeley
PhD students:Lucy BryningLaura BuddJames BurrowsSharon HadleyNed HartfielSadia Nafees
Public Health Economics Research Themes, funding and collaboration
Research themes:A life course approach in Public Health economics e.g. cost effectiveness of IY parenting; economic evaluation of mindfulness in schools and the workplace; economic evaluation of interventions to support people with dementia and their carers
Funding:NISCHR, NIHR, HTA, CRUK, Tenovus
Collaborators:NWORTH Trials Unit, North Wales Centre for Primary Care Research, Wales Centre for Behaviour Change, School of PsychologyCollaboration within CoHaBSDSCD- Dementia Research REACHExternal collaborators Wales, UK, USA
Our Research Methods
Cost –effectiveness Analysis Cost-benefit Analysis Cost-utility Analysis Cost-consequence Analysis Social Return on Investment
These provide a systematic, explicit and transparent way of setting out costs and outcomes of investing scarce resources in interventions to prevent ill health and disability. They can be applied to many population or patient groups, settings and organisations.
Work with Public Health Wales
Programme Budgeting and Marginal Analysis (PBMA)of ministerial budget of health improvement programme (£17 million)
BCUHB PBMA of respiratory services across North Wales
Planned work: Social Return on Investment of Codi To,
Maesgeirchen, Bangor, in collaboration with Schools of Music and Psychology
Economic benefits of fire prevention in North Wales
Economic evaluation of Wylfa Newydd
Example of Research – evaluation of the all Wales Exercise Referral Scheme
Publications: Edwards et al.: Cost-effectiveness of a national exercise
referral programme for primary care patients in Wales: results of a randomised controlled trial. BMC Public Health 2013 13:1021.
Murphy S, Edwards, RT, Williams N, Raisenen L, Moore G, Linck P, Hounsome N, Ud Din, N, and Moore L. (2012). An evaluation of the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the National Exercise Referral Scheme in Wales, UK: a randomised controlled trial of a public health policy initiative Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health doi:10.1136/jech-2011-200689
Impact: Evidence considered by NICE in exercise referral schemes to
promote physical activity, due September 2014
Book and Short Course
Short Course: Health Economics for Public Health practice
and research, Management Centre, March 23-25th, 2015
Book: 5th in the series: Handbooks in Health
Economic Evaluation. Editors : Rhiannon Tudor Edwards and Emma McIntosh. Applied Health Economics for Public Health Practice and Research. Oxford University Press. Planned publication date January 2016