Health Economics

General

International Society for Quality of Life Research

HTA 101: Introduction to Health Technology Assessment (NICHSR): Excellent summary of the health technology assessment framework and methods.

UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Quality of Life

The Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) instrument measures 5 dimensions: illness, independent living, social relationships, physical senses and psychological wellbeing.

EuroQol EQ-5D, EuroQol five-dimensional questionnaire provides a preference-based quality of life measure with one question for each of the five dimensions that include mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, and anxiety/depression.

PROMIS Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System developed by National Institute of Health funding.

HUI, Health Utilities Index

SF-6D, six-dimensional health state short form for valuing cost effectiveness of healthcare interventions.

AQL-5D, Asthma Quality of Life Utility Index

EORTC-8D, European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer cancer-specific instrument

Datasets

ResearchDataGov: Search portal and access request site for US federal statistics on a wide range of topics.

Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care: project uses CMS data to show variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States

OECD Country Health Profile in 2021

Kaggle World Happiness Report

United States

American Hospital Directory: Database of hospitals in the United States.

AHRQ Hospital Quality Measures

Medicare Health Outcomes Survey

OpenGovData Country Health Ranking Dataset: collection of 50 reports, one per state, on the health of the United States.

Hospital Quality Initiative Public Reporting

HHS Hospital Quality Initiative Public Reporting

Kaggle Pollution in the United States

Nutrition

USDA Food Environment Atlas: assemble statistics on food environment indicators to stimulate research on the determinants of food choices and diet quality, and to provide a spatial overview of a community's ability to access healthy food and its success in doing so.

Kaggle Nutrition Facts for McDonald’s Menu

Substance Use

National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)

Compilations

Github Awesome-healthcare-dataset: Big collection of healthcare dataset

OpenGovData Health Data Wiki: Wiki created resulting from the Health 2.0 Challenge, the wiki maintains a good collection of health economics datasets, though many links are inactive.

Version History

• Version history is not maintained for resources, lists, and tools.
• 01.03.22 Initial Draft