Health economics related projects

Enhancing the Evidence Base for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Ireland: Building Improvements from the Intervention-Specific to System-Wide Levels

Dr James O’Mahony is leading this Health Research Board Emerging Investigator Award (EIA)...

Optimising cervical screening in the HPV vaccination era

The entry into the cervical screening programme of women who have been vaccinated against HPV will impact on screening effectiveness and, hence, cost-effectiveness.

Optimal screening and management strategies for cervical cancer

The overall goal of health economics is to maximise the health gain achieved by health services within available funding. The application to health economics to cervical screening has the particular goal of finding which screening tests will prevent the most disease at an acceptable cost to the health system.