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Key publications by subtheme

1. Socioeconomic determinants of health, health behaviour and health inequalities

  • Love-Koh J, Asaria M, Cookson R, Griffin S. The social distribution of health: Estimating quality-adjusted life expectancy in England. Value in Health 2015;18(5):655-662.
  • Jones AM, Rice N, Rosa-Dias P. Quality of schooling and inequality of opportunity in health. Empirical Economics 2012;42(2):369-394.
  • Jones AM, Rice N, Rosa Dias P. Long-term effects of schooling quality on health and lifestyle: Evidence from comprehensive schooling reforms in England. Journal of Human Capital 2011;5(3):342-76.
  • Kronenberg C, Jacobs R, Zucchelli E. The impact of a wage increase on mental health: Evidence from the UK minimum wage. Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG), University of York 2015; working paper 15/08. Download from HERC
  • Rocco E, Fumagalli E, Suhrcke M. From social capital to health - and back. Health Economics 2014;23(5):586-605. Download from Wiley
  • Martin A, Ogilvie D, Suhrcke M. Evaluating causal relationships between urban built environment characteristics and obesity: a methodological review of observational studies. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014;11:142. Download from ijbnpa
  • Toffolutti V, Suhrcke M. Assessing the short term health impact of the Great Recession in the European Union: a cross-country panel analysis. Preventive Medicine 2014;64:54-62. Download from Elsevier
  • Jones AM, Rice N, Roberts J. Early retirement among men in Britain and Germany: how important is health? The Geneva papers on risk and insurance: issues and practice (Special issue on health and ageing) 2010;35:644-67.

2. Economic consequences of health

  • Seuring T, Archangelidi O, Suhrcke M. The economic costs of type 2 diabetes: a global systematic review. PharmacoEconomics 2015;33(8):811-31. Download from Springer 
  • Jones AM, Rice N, Contoyannis PC. The dynamics of health. In:Jones AM (ed). Elgar Companion to Health Economics (second Edition). Cheltenham;Edward Elgar:2012:pp.15-23.
  • Suhrcke M, Arce RS, McKee M, Rocco L. Economic Costs of Ill Health in the European Region. Background report for the 2008 WHO Ministerial Conference on Health Systems, Health and Wealth.
  • Suhrcke M, Urban D. Are cardiovascular diseases bad for economic growth? Health Economics 2010;19(12):1478-96. Download from Wiley

3. Economic evaluation of public health interventions

  • Claxton K, Sculpher M, Culyer A. Mark versus Luke? Appropriate methods for the evaluation of public health interventions. Centre for Health Economics, University of York; CHE Research Paper 31 (PDF , 204kb), 2007.
  • Kenkel D, Suhrcke M. Economic evaluation of the social determinants of health, an overview of conceptual and practical issues. Copenhagen, Denmark:WHO Regional Office for Europe. 2011.
  • Cookson R, Drummond M, Weatherly H. Explicit incorporation of equity considerations into economic evaluation of public health interventions. Health Economics Policy and Law 2009;4(2):231-45. Download from Cambridge journals
  • Weatherly H, Drummond M, Claxton K, Cookson R, Ferguson B, Godfrey C, Rice N, Sculpher M, Sowden A. Methods for assessing the cost-effectiveness of public health interventions: key challenges and recommendations. Health Policy 2009;93:85-92. Download from elsevierhealth
  • Saramago P, Cooper NJ, Sutton AJ, Hayes M, Dunn K, Manca A, Kendrick D. Cost-effectiveness of interventions for increasing the possession of functioning smoke alarms in households with pre-school children: a modelling study. BMC Public Health 2014;14:459.

4. Evaluation of public health interventions through econometric methods and microsimulation

  • Jones AM, Laporte A, Rice N, Zucchelli E. Do smoking bans have an impact on active smoking? A model with evidence from a policy experiment in the UK. Health Economics 2015;24(2):175–192. Download from Wiley
  • Zucchelli E, Jones AM, Rice N. The evaluation of health policies through dynamic microsimulation methods. International Journal of Microsimulation 2012;5(1):2-20.
  • Nakamura R, Suhrcke M, Pechey R, Morciano M, Roland M, Marteau TM. Impact on alcohol purchasing of a ban on multi-buy promotions: a quasi-experimental evaluation comparing Scotland with England and Wales. Addiction 2014;109(4):558-67. Download from Wiley
  • Nakamura R, Coombes E, Suhrcke M. Do economic incentives promote physical activity? evaluating the impact of the London congestion charge on active commuting and health. Social Science Research Network 2014;March 27. Download from ssrn