Dr Derek King

Assistant Professorial Research Fellow

0207 955 7863

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Research Interests

Dr King's areas of expertise are mental health policy and economics, the demand and financing of long term care and cost-effectiveness analysis. He has previously worked in the areas of private medical insurance, priority setting in health care, pharmaceutical policy and development of quality of life instruments.

Derek has recently completed work looking at the intensity of unpaid care provision and its impact on employment with Dr Linda Pickard. He is currently involved in a number of cost and cost-effectiveness studies of health and social care interventions.

Derek's Google Scholar profile can be accessed here.

Derek King's Publications

Journal Articles

Journal Article

The diagnosis and management of insomnia in clinical practice: a practical evidence-based approach (2000)

Holbrook A, Crowther R, Lotter A, Cheng C, King D

Canadian Medical Association Journal 162, 2, 216-220

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Journal Article

An analysis of the geographic variation in cancer incidence and its determinants in Ontario (1999)

Walter S, Marrett L, Taylor S, King D

Canadian Journal of Public Health 90, 2, 104-108

Canadian Public Health Association

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Journal Article

Development of a disease specific questionnaire to measure health related quality of life in patients with chronic liver disease (1999)

Younossi Z, Guyatt G, Kiwi M, Boparai N, King D

Gut 45, 2, 295-300

BMJ Publishing Group

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Effect of the framing of questionnaire items regarding satisfaction with training on residents' responses (1999)

Guyatt G, Cook D, King D, Norman G, Kane S, van Inevald C

Academic Medicine 74, 2, 192-194

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Journal Article

Meta-analysis of benzodiazepine use in the treatment of acute alcohol withdrawal (1999)

Holbrook A, Crowther R, Lotter A, Cheng C, King D

Canadian Medical Association Journal 160, 5, 649-655

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Diagnosis and management of acute alcohol withdrawal (1999)

Holbrook A, Crowther R, Lotter A, Cheng C, King D

Canadian Medical Association Journal 160, 5, 675-680

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Journal Article

Citizens and rationing: analysis of a European survey (1999)

Mossialos E, King D

Health Policy 49, 1, 75-135

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Development and validation of a questionnaire to measure asthma control (1999)

Juniper E, O'Byrne P, Guyatt G, Ferrie P, King D

European Respiratory Journal 14, 4, 902-907

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Journal Article

Public opinion and rationing in the United Kingdom (1999)

King D, Maynard A

Health Policy 50, 1, 39-53

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Evaluating the performance of academic medical education administrators (1999)

Guyatt G, Cook D, King D, Nishikawa J, Brill-Edwards P

Evaluation and the Health Professions 22, 4, 484-496

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Book Sections

Book Section

Promoting well-being in the workplace (2011)

McDaid D, King D, Park A, Parsonage M

Department of Health

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Book Section

PSSRU Long-Term Care Finance Model and CARESIM: two linked UK models of long term care for older people (2007)

Wittenberg R, Hancock R, Comas-Herrera A, King D, Malley J, Pickard L, Juarez-Garcia A, Darton R

Elsevier Science

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Reports

Report

Youth Mental Health: New Economic Evidence (2016)

Knapp M, Ardino V, Brimblecombe N, Evans-Lacko S, Iemmi V, King D, Snell T

Personal Social Services Research Unit

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Equity in the Provision of Palliative Care in the UK: Review of Evidence (2015)

Dixon J, King D, Matosevic T, Clark M, Knapp M

PSSRU Discussion Paper 2894, London School of Economics

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Dementia UK: The Second Edition (2014)

Prince M, Knapp M, Guerchet M, McCrone P, Prina M, Comas-Herrera A, Wittenberg R, Adelaja B, Hu B, King D, Rehill A, Salimkumar D

Alzheimer's Society

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Scenarios of dementia care: what are the impacts on cost and quality of life? (2014)

Knapp M, Comas-Herrera A, Wittenberg R, Hu B, King D, Rehill A, Adelaja B

Personal Social Services Research Unit

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A comparative study on the regime of surrogacy in EU member states: study (2013)

Brunet L, Carruthers J, Davaki K, King D, Marzo C, McCandless J

European Parliament

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Informal care supply and demand in Europe (2012)

Pickard L, King D

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Conclusions: long-term care use and supply in Europe: projections for Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Poland (2012)

Pickard L, King D, Geerts J, Willeme P

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Modelling the future supply of informal care for older people in Europe (2012)

Pickard L, King D

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