Extending the QALY beyond health – the EQ-HWB (Health and well-being)

Professor John Brazier

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Abstract
Measures for estimating Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) (e.g. EQ-5D, SF-6D) attempt to capture the health of patients but miss broader wellbeing considerations such as autonomy and relationships that are important to patients and users of social care. Furthermore these measures do not consider the impact on carers’ quality of life. This limitation of existing measures led to the joint MRC and Euroqol Research Foundation funded Extending the QALY (E-QALY) project.
On behalf of the E-QALY team, John Brazier will describe the idea for a new and broader measure of health and wellbeing (i.e. why it was needed) for use in health and social care, some of the conceptual issues encountered and how they were approached in a large international programme of work. He will also present the mixed methods empirical work to develop the new measure called the EQ Health and WellbeingTM (EQ-HWB). Please come along and join in the discussion about the empirical research and the policy questions this new measure raises.
Bio
John Brazier is a Professor of Health Economics in the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield. He was the first Director of the Economic Evaluation Policy Research Unit (EEPRU) which is a joint Sheffield and York Unit funded by the Department of Health in England to undertake applied and methodological research to inform health policy in England. Professor Brazier is currently a NIHR Senior Investigator (Emeritus).
Professor Brazier has more than 25 years’ experience of conducting economic evaluations of health care interventions for policy makers and has published over 200 peered reviewed papers. His special interest is in the measurement and valuation of health for economic evaluation where he has published widely.
Perhaps best known for his work in developing a preference-based measure of health for the SF-36 (SF-6D), but with colleagues he has further developed and extended these methods to a number of specific condition including measures in asthma, cancer, overactive bladder, diabetes, mental health, dementia and epilepsy.
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ScHARR Mini Master Class - Undertaking data-centric healthcare research - Tuesday 18th January 2022

Undertaking data-centric healthcare research: Experiences from urgent & emergency care systems
Professor Susan Mason
Tuesday 18th January 2022

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Title

Undertaking data-centric healthcare research: Experiences from urgent & emergency care systems

Presenter

Professor Suzanne Mason

(Professor of Emergency Care)

Abstract

This talk will focus on the importance of developing real world data systems for research, the value it can bring to research and the importance for improving the health and care of populations. I will talk about my own research journey using real-world data relating to urgent and emergency care. I will describe the challenges involved in managing the governance and data acquisition hurdles, describing how we developed linked datasets and provide some examples of how it helps us to understand and improve the system.

Bio

Professor Mason qualified in medicine from London University in 1990 and then trained initially in surgery and then specialised in Emergency Medicine.

From there she spent a year as a Royal College of Surgeons of England Research Fellow and was awarded an MD whilst undertaking higher training in Emergency Medicine.

Professor Mason joined Sheffield University as a Senior Clinical Lecturer in 2001, was promoted to Reader in 2007 and professor in 2010. She divides her time between the university and as a consultant at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust emergency department.

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ScHARR Mini Master Class in Health Research - Alcohol and Pricing - Tuesday 7th December

 

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Alcohol and pricing: 

Beyond modelling to evaluation and duty reform

Professor John Holmes  

Director of the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group and Lead Director of the Wellcome Doctoral Training Centre in Public Health Economics and Decision Science

Abstract
Alcohol remains a major cause of ill health, and deaths due to alcohol during the COVID-19 pandemic heighten this concern. This presentation will explore the role of alcohol prices as a driver of alcohol-related health problems and a target for public health responses. After setting out the evidence on key pricing trends and concerns, the presentation will describe emerging evidence suggesting positive effects of minimum unit pricing in Scotland and the Australian Northern Territory. It will also explore the Government’s ongoing alcohol duty review and the potential for radical policy change if the Government follows through on its suggestions.

Bio
John is the Director of the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group and Lead Director of the Wellcome Doctoral Training Centre in Public Health Economics and Decision Science. He completed his training in the University of York’s Social Policy department with a thesis focused on inequalities, risks and opportunities associated with young people’s internet use. He then spent one-year researching child poverty and well-being. Since 2010, he has worked at the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield, where he has contributed key epidemiological evidence and policy analyses to national and international alcohol policy debates. In particular, he has worked on minimum unit pricing (MUP), other pricing policies and low risk drinking guidelines. He currently leads an evaluation of the impact of MUP on harmful drinkers in Scotland, research on drinking occasions, practices and culture, and a Wellcome Investigator Award examining the sharp decline in youth drinking.

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