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Welcome to LSE Health and Social Care

The Supply of Informal Care in Europe|

Centre for European Policy Studies| - The differences in long-term care systems between countries. Author Linda Pickard| is a Senior Research Fellow in PSSRU.


Paul Dolan

"Re-imagining happiness"|  Asking people what makes them happy and trying to design public policy around their responses is fraught with dangers. 

Professor Paul Dolan| (pictured), Professor of Social Policy, on the difficulties of measuring happiness for public policy.

 

 

Seeking examples of good practice in personalised care in mental health services as part of a NIHR Programme Development Grant on personalised care in mental health|. For further details click here|.

 

Professor George Akerlof, Berkeley to speak at LSE

Professor George Akerlof will speak at LSE on the social influences on behaviour on Monday 11 June, 18.30-20.00. The lecture will be chaired by Professor Tim Besley, LSE.

To register email Adam Oliver (a.j.oliver@lse.ac.uk|).

LSE Health Literary Festival event: The Medicine Chest of the Soul: Arts and Health|

Date: Wednesday 29 February 2012 
Time: 4.30-6pm
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Jane Davies, David McDaid, Margaret Perkins, Jeanette Winterson
Chair: Tim Joss  

Tickets for this event will be available after 6th February 2012 and are free of charge.

Health Alumni Conference 2012: Towards a global health policy? Celebrating 25 years of health policy research and teaching at the LSE|

19-20 March 2012, London School of Economics

LSE is holding a special conference to celebrate its five health MSc programmes. The conference will bring together alumni, policymakers, practitioners, students and academics to debate key global health policy issues.

Draft programme|

Register for this event  |

QORU

QORU Seminar: How Can We Make The Best Use of Information on Outcomes?|

Date: 2nd April 2012
Location: LSE

The Quality and Outcomes of person-centred care Research Unit (QORU) will be holding a free seminar at LSE. Pre-registation essential. For further information, click here| (PDF)

 
Involving Olde People in Commissioning more power to their elbow
JRF-funded PSSRU project findings: Involving older people in service commissioning: more power to their elbow?|

With the individual at the heart of the wider public service reform agenda, this research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation set out to investigate what happens when older people are given the opportunity to shape service commissioning and delivery.

 

 
Health Outcomes report

What are the effects of different models of  delivery for improving maternal and infant health outcomes for poor people in urban areas in low income and lower middle income countries?|

This report was released in February 2012 and the authors include Ernestina Coast, David McDaid, Tiziana Leone, Valentina Iemmi and Emma Pitchforth.

 
Health Economics

Testing Procedural Invariance in the Context of Health|

Article by Adam Oliver in the Janurary edition of Health Economics journal.

 
Health Economics Policy and Law

Latest issue of Health Economics, Policy and Law (Volume 6 Issue 4)|

Articles include: the costs of smoking to the NHS, the economic impact of provisional funding, choice and privitisation in Swedish health care.

 
Dilnot report

Report of Research for the Commission on Funding of Care and Support|

New PSSRU discussion paper 2811/2 is now available