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Teachers as health workers; a consideration of the economic impacts using unique survey data

11/10/2025

Abstract Teachers face a multiplicity task in undertaking their work. Some of these tasks are not primarily educational and may be described as health related. In the provision of these services there is a net transfer of economic benefit from the Education Sector to the Health Sector. Disentangling the net amount of this transfer is difficult and depends largely upon the substitutability between teacher-initiated health-work and “market” based health work which might reasonably be carried out by health professionals. The

Placing an economic value on clinical service interventions using self-reported data

22/08/2025

This presentation examines the value of and necessity for economic evaluation of community based educational health initiatives. In house evaluation of these initiatives are often based on self-reported data that requires analysis for both reliability and suitability in economic evaluation. This presentation sets out to describe the necessary steps to provide rigorous economic evaluations of community health initiatives designed to reduce the incidence and impact of type 2 diabetes.

Guns or Butter: Health Spending versus Defence Spending

18/01/2025

Guns or Butter: Health Spending versus Defence Spending Introduction The phrase “guns or butter” originated during the early 20th century, particularly around the time of World War I. The concept was likely first articulated by William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson. Bryan resigned in protest over Wilson’s decision to prioritize military production over civilian goods (Guns Before Butter Political Dictionary.) Others claim that the term came from the National Défense Act of 1916, which aimed to

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Teachers as health workers; a consideration of the economic impacts using unique survey data

Placing an economic value on clinical service interventions using self-reported data

Guns or Butter: Health Spending versus Defence Spending

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