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Health and social care

This work analyses the financing, organisation and the demand for health and social care. It studies how much the UK spends on health and social care, specific policies that affect the delivery of care, workforce issues, health inequalities and a wide set of determinants of demand for health and social care in the UK and in low and middle income countries.

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The NHS before COVID

Explainer

Ben Zaranko takes us through the state of the NHS on the eve of the COVID crisis.

8 September 2021

An initial response to the Prime Minister’s announcement on health, social care and National Insurance

Comment

IFS immediate reaction to the Prime Minister's announcement about social care.

7 September 2021

Countering misinformation with targeted messages: Experimental evidence using mobile phones

Working Paper

We study how to address such wrong or inaccurate beliefs using messages delivered to individual citizens using mobile phones.

2 September 2021

The health impacts of universal early childhood interventions: evidence from Sure Start

Working Paper

This paper evaluates the short- and medium-term health impacts of offering families with children under 5 universal access to Sure Start centres.

16 August 2021

Could NHS waiting lists really reach 13 million?

Comment

This observation looks at how the numbers in England on the NHS waiting list changed before and during the pandemic and discusses the key factors that will affect how much they will grow in the near future.

8 August 2021

Subjective expectations and demand for contraception

Working Paper

We collect detailed data on women’s subjective probabilistic beliefs and estimate a structural model of contraceptive choices.

5 August 2021

The economic costs of child maltreatment in UK

Working Paper

In this paper we quantify for the first time the economic costs of fatal and non-fatal child maltreatment in the UK in relation to several short-, medium- and long-term outcomes ranging from physical and mental health problems, to labour market outcomes and welfare use.

27 July 2021

Who should get vaccinated? Individualized allocation of vaccines over SIR network

Working Paper

How to allocate vaccines over heterogeneous individuals is one of the important policy decisions in pandemic times. This paper develops a procedure to estimate an individualized vaccine allocation policy under limited supply, exploiting social network data containing individual demographic characteristics and health status.

20 July 2021

How to reform – and fund – social care?

Podcast

This week we ask how should we think about reforming social care, how should we pay for it, and what can we learn from other countries?

15 July 2021

School health programs: education, health, and welfare dependency of young adults

Working Paper

This paper provides new evidence that preventive health care services delivered at schools at a relatively low cost have positive, lasting impacts.

8 July 2021

The dietary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

Working Paper

We use novel data on the food and non-alcoholic drink purchases to quantify the impact of the pandemic on the diets of British households.

1 July 2021

Firm Characteristics and Health

Book Chapter

We study the relationship between health and firm characteristics, primarily ownership using administrative data from Hungary.

25 June 2021

Inequality of mortality and morbidity by income

Book Chapter

We use the comprehensive national individual-level mortality registers administrative data, and settlement-level and microregion-level administrative data on population characteristics and income to examine inequalities in Hungary during the 2011–2016 period in mortality rates, life expectancy, and morbidity.

25 June 2021

Labor income, health status, and healthcare spending

Book Chapter

We examine geographic and income-related inequalities in health and healthcare spending and the relationship between these two dimensions of inequality using administrative data from Hungary.

25 June 2021

Nurses leaving the NHS acute and community sectors

Presentation

Presentation to the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England and Improvement as part of the Health and Social Care Workforce Policy Research Unit.

23 June 2021

Coordination and the poor maintenance trap: an experiment on public infrastructure in India

Working Paper

This paper provides one of the first economic analyses of provider–user dynamics in the presence of local coordination failure.

22 June 2021

Long-term care spending and hospital use among the older population in England

Journal article

This paper examines the impact of changes in public long-term care spending on the use of public hospitals among the older population in England.

18 June 2021

Age specific trends in mortality disparities by socio-economic deprivation in small geographical areas of England, 2002-2018: a retrospective registry study

Journal article

We describe the association between recent changes in socioeconomic inequality and trends in mortality disparities for different age and sex groups at small-area level in England.

4 June 2021

Can the NHS recover from COVID?

Podcast

In this episode we ask what challenges will the NHS face in the future, and what can the government do to help?

2 June 2021

What happened to English NHS hospital activity during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Report

In this briefing note, we use administrative hospital data from across the NHS in England to describe how the use of inpatient (elective and emergency) and outpatient hospital care in 2020 compared with that in the previous year.

13 May 2021

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