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The Mount Hood Diabetes Challenge: A Collaborative, Disease-Specific Model for Pursuing Improved Health Economic Modeling

The Mount Hood Diabetes Challenge: A Collaborative, Disease-Specific Model for Pursuing Improved Health Economic Modeling

By annette

The Mount Hood Diabetes Challenge, a (for-the-most-part) biennial and in-person meeting of 10+ diabetes economic modeling teams and up to 100 participants interested in diabetes modeling, has been instrumental in promoting global dialogue and innovation since its establishment in 2000. This year developers of the IMIB and the GDM diabetes models first met and spent …

A new study from IHE reports health-related quality of life in persons with generalized pustular psoriasis (GPP)

By annette

A new Swedish study from IHE reports considerable impaired health-related quality of life in persons with the rare and severe condition generalized pustular psoriasis (GPP) compared to persons with the more common type of psoriasis, plaque psoriasis. The study, which was recently published in Annals of Medicine, highlights a need for more efficient therapeutic options …

New IHE report on the societal costs of narcotic drug use in Sweden

By annette

A new IHE report estimates that societal costs for narcotic drug use in Sweden amounted to just over 44 billion in 2020. Almost half (47%) of costs could be attributed to the value of reduced quality of life for people with a harmful use of narcotic drugs. The report also presents a scenario analysis that …

IHE at World Health Assembly side event

By annette

On the sidelines of the 77th World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization in Geneva, IHE participated in the event “Uniting Voices for Action on Women Cancer in the Eastern Mediterranean Region”. This event, organized by the Eastern Mediterranean NCD Alliance, brought together representatives from Ministries of Health, civil society organizations, health care professionals, …

IHE presents in the Congress of Peru

By annette

IHE’s Thomas Hofmarcher had the great honor of presenting research results in the Congress of Peru (the country’s unicameral parliament) in Lima at a meeting of congressmen on May 20, 2024. He shared the Peruvian results of the IHE report 2024:4 “Improving outcomes for women with triple-negative breast cancer in Latin America – An extended …

IHE presents for Aspen Institute Romania

By annette

In April 2024, IHE’s Thomas Hofmarcher traveled to a conference with leading local health policy experts in Romania arranged by the Aspen Institute Romania. Thomas presented and discussed different examples to increase efficiency in cancer care, drawing on IHE’s vast research in this field. Increasing efficiency in healthcare is paramount to ensure good use of …

IHE presents at Oncology Days 2024 in Austria

By annette

IHE recently contributed a presentation to the Oncology Days 2024 conference in Vienna, Austria. Thomas Hofmarcher presented a comparison of cancer care in Austria with cancer care in other EU countries in the light of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan. The participants then discussed current challenges in the healthcare system’s structure for diagnosis and treatment as …

SCHOLARSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT 2024

By annette

The Swedish Institute for Health Economics and the Bengt Jönsson Foundation for Health Economics Research are pleased to announce a scholarship of 50,000 SEK awarded to the best bachelor’s or master’s thesis in health economics and related topics for the academic year 2023/2024. Read more

Analysis using the IHE Type 2 Diabetes Cohort Model presented at ISPOR 2024

By annette

The IHE Type 2 Diabetes Cohort Model (IHE-DCM-T2) is frequently used to estimate cost-effectiveness of interventions for type 2 diabetes in different parts of the world. The model has recently been updated to include Japanese risk equations, and in a study presented at ISPOR we illustrate how the choice between the Japanese and Western risk …