The Applied Research Collaboration Yorkshire and Humber (ARC-YH) supports people powered research that aims to tackle inequalities and improve health and well-being for the communities. The ARC-YH is focussed on six key themes: https://www.arc-yh.nihr.ac.uk/what-we-do. The Heath Economics, Evaluation and Equality (HEEE) theme is being delivered by the University of Sheffield and the University of York. Dr Tracey Young and Dr Laura Bojke co-lead the team.
The Health Economics, Evaluation and Equality theme aims:
1. To improve local providers’ understanding of the importance of economic and inequalities evaluations to inform and support decisions regarding provision of new services and disinvestment in those not representing value for money or potential to reduce inequalities.
2. To work collaboratively with core themes and local partners to develop new applied research and implementation initiatives for further funding from NIHR and non-NIHR streams.
3. To apply distributional effectiveness and cost-effectiveness methods to assess the impact of interventions on health inequalities.
4. To apply and enhance our recent methodological advances for conducting cross sector evaluations.
This research is important as it will help improve efficiency and equity in the use of public resources by providing research capability in health economic evaluation to NHS, public and social care partners. This will benefit local NHS, public health and social care collaborators.
This work augments research conducted during the 5-year NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care – Yorkshire and Humber project that concluded on the 30th September 2019 http://clahrc-yh.nihr.ac.uk/home.
For further information on the Applied Reseach Collaboration Yorkshire & Humber please visit: https://arc-yh.nihr.ac.uk/