Background: Crime imposes significant costs and negative consequences to people and society globally. Understanding the cost of crime is important to conduct economic evaluations of existing crime prevention interventions and to allocate resources by prioritizing crime prevention efforts...

Objective: To explore the advantages and disadvantages of different retraction devices used for laparoscopic surgery. The main focus was on its impact on operation time, length of stay, use of staff, complications or negative outcomes (such as pain, liver functioning or damage, blood loss),...

Harris has been a vocal critic of CEA and the QALY for over 20 years. In this paper we attempt to summarise and evaluate both Harris’ criticisms of CEA and the alternative procedures he commends to health care decision makers. Harris’ basic position is that all health benefits are...

Background: Over four millions people in England are estimated to have a CVD and they are responsible for over one third of deaths and a fifth of hospital admissions in England every year. In prioritising the reduction of premature mortality there has been a focus on improving prevention and...

Background: Over four millions people in England are estimated to have a CVD and they are responsible for over one third of deaths and a fifth of hospital admissions in England every year. In prioritising the reduction of premature mortality there has been a focus on improving prevention and...

Public health policies typically assume that there are characteristics and constraints over health that an individual cannot control and that there are choices that an individual could change if he is nudged or provided with incentives. We consider that health is determined by a range of...

This analysis aims to understand the role and the extent of childhood circumstances in current inequality in health among adulthood. Health inequalities have extensively been explained by differences in living and working conditions, access or lifestyle, this article gets a step further and...

Within Europe, and similarly the rest of the developed world, the increase in life expectancy over the last few decades and associated incremental health problems is raising the importance of informal care. A decrease in births, greater geographical distances between family members and the...

There is a need to understand the practicality, validity and reliability of using utility measures with children and adolescents. We designed a pilot study in order to help guide the selection of an appropriate health-related quality of life (HRQoL) questionnaire for adolescents to be used in...

Objectives: To report on the relative cost-effectiveness of total hip arthroplasty and resurfacing arthroplasty (replacement of articular surface of femoral head only) in patients with severe arthritis suitable for hip joint resurfacing arthroplasty. Design: Cost-effectiveness analysis (cost per...