Economic modelling can help us to understand what health and social care services look like in a setting, identify areas of care and research need, and explore the possible costs and benefits of different funding decisions that can be made by commissioners. This can include addressing questions such as who might be expected to benefit from a course of action, whether there are more cost-effective ways to achieve improvements in the health of a group of people, and what are some of the longer-term costs of a decision.In this session health economists from the Yorkshire and Humber ARC will discuss their plans to work alongside regional commissioners and datasets to create three such models across the topics of the first 1001 days of life, frailty in older people, and common mental health disorders.
Agenda highlights:
- Intro to STEEM (SysTem Level Economic Evaluation Modelling) in Yorkshire & Humber Applied Research Collaboration
- Healthy families model
- Mental health model
- Older people model
- Q&A across all of the models and theme
The presentation will be led by Laura Bojke (professor, Centre for Health Economics, University of York) and Sebastian Hinde (senior research fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York) as joint leads of the SysTem Level Economic Evaluation Modelling (STEEM) theme but will include input from Dacheng Huo, Shuye Yu, and Cameron Morgan.
Speakers Bio:
Laura Bojke has worked on a wide range of applied and methodological projects, across Pharmacoeconomics and Public Health, in the UK and globally. She has worked on a number of projects involving the use of expert elicited data within decision analytic models and is particularly interested in this area and its application to issues of extrapolation uncertainty.Sebastian Hinde specialises in economic evaluations and has worked in a range of areas including public health, clinical trials, and health technology assessment. In recent years, funded by NIHR ARC programmes and the Wellcome Trust, he has focussed on the role of economic evaluations to inform commissioning decisions with a focus on early childhood interventions.