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Research Interests
David McDaid is an Associate Professorial Research Fellow in Health Policy and Health Economics at the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is involved in a wide range of work on mental health and public ealth in the UK, Europe and at the global level. He is a co-ordinator of the Mental Health Economics European Network, a member of NICE's Public Health Interventions Advisory Committee since 2007, Co-Convenor of the Cochrane Campbell Economic Methods Group and has acted as an advisor to a range of organisations, including the European Commission and World Health Organisation, and national/regional governmental departments, including the Department of Health in England and equivalent bodies in Scotland and Wales. He has published over 300 peer reviewed papers and reports, including a report for the UK Department of Health which looked at the economic case for investing in mental health promotion and mental disorder prevention. He is the editor of two recent books – the first on economics and wellbeing and the second, a collaboration between the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and the OECD, looks at the economic case for investing in health promotion and disease prevention. He is also a past winner of the European Health Management Association's Baxter Award in 2007 for the best book on health policy – Mental Health Policy and Practice across Europe.
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David McDaid's Publications
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The Evaluation of Healthy Living Centres. First annual report prepared for the New Opportunities Fund (2002)
Stern E, Platt S, Popay J, McDaid D, Corlyon J, BRIDGE Consortium
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Making the Most of It: Economic Evaluation in the Social Welfare Field (2002)
Sefton T, Byford S, McDaid D, Hills J, Knapp M
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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The value of diagnostic tests for the assessment of chronic cardiac risk in primary care. Physician and patient perceptions (2001)
Sassi F, McDaid D, DeHoughton E, Ricciardi G
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Mental Health Care Financing (2000)
Knapp M, McDaid D, Healey A
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Analysis of the Scientific and Technical Evaluations of Health Care Interventions in the European Union (ASTEC) (2000)
Cookson R, Maynard A, McDaid D, Sassi F, Sheldon T
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Analysis of the Scientific and Technical Evaluations of Health Care Interventions in the European Union (ASTEC). Luxembourg (2000)
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Analysis of the Scientific and Technical Evaluations of Health Care Interventions in the European Union (ASTEC) England and Wales (2000)
McDaid D
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Transnational Analysis of the Socio-Economic Impact of Alzheimer’s Disease in the European Union (1999)
Sassi F, McDaid D
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Child and Adolescent mental health in the enlarged European Union (CAMHEE): development of effective policies and practices (2008)
McDaid D
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DataPREV: Evidence-based programmes for promotion and prevention in mental health (2008)
McDaid D
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European Collaboration on Dementia (EuroCoDe) (2008)
McDaid D
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Mental Health Economics European Network Phase II: Expansion and Further Development. Outline of a research project funded by the European Commission, PSSRU Project Outline 70, September 2007 (2007)
Knapp M, McDaid D, Medeiros H, Mehta A
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Economic, Mental Health and Policy: Summary of a MHEEN Seminar, London, September 2007 (2007)
Knapp M, McDaid D, Medeiros H, Tatar M, MHEEN group
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Health Care Management Autonomy: Evidence from the Catalonian Hospital Sector in a Decentralised Spain, Working Paper 993 (2006)
Lopez-Casasnovas G, McDaid D, Costa-Font J
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Mental Health Problems: What are their Socio-Economic Costs and What Can Be Done to Tackle Them and Promote Mental Well-Being? Policy Brief (2006)
McDaid D
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Networking Mental Health Economists Across Europe (2005)
Knapp M, McDaid D, Grant C, MHEEN group
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The Economics of Mental Health in Europe (2005)
McDaid D
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Briefing Paper: Economic Appraisal of Public Health Interventions (2005)
Kelly M, McDaid D, Ludbrooke A, Powell J
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Balancing Institutional and Community Based Mental Health Care. Policy Brief (2004)
McDaid D, Thornicroft G
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Key Issues in the Development of Mental Health Policy and Practice Across Europe. Policy Brief (2004)
McDaid D
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