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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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Health visiting and reducing postnatal depression (2010)
Bauer A, Knapp M, McDaid D
Personal Social Services Research Unit, London School of Economics
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Economics of evidence-based practice and mental health (2010)
Knapp M, McDaid D
Wiley
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What contribution can public health and health promoting interventions make to health systems: an economic perspective? (2009)
McDaid D, Suhrcke M
World Health Organization
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SCIE's work on economics and the importance of informal care (2009)
Francis J, McDaid D
Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent
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Chapter 15: Incorporating economics evidence (2008)
Shemilt I, Mugford M, Byford S, Drummond M, Eisenstein E, Knapp M, Mallender J, McDaid D, Vale L, Walker R
The Cochrane Collaboration
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Carers and families of people with mental health problems (2007)
Magliano L, McDaid D, Kirkwood S, Berzyns K
Open University Press
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The evidence base in mental health policy and practice (2007)
Jenkins R, McDaid D, Brugha T, Cutler P, Hayward R
Open University Press
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What use has been made of economic evaluation in public health? A systematic review of the literature (2007)
McDaid D, Needle J
Radcliffe Medical Press
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The case for suicide prevention: an economic perspective (2007)
McDaid D, Kennelly B
Oxford University Press
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Mental health policy and practice across Europe: an overview (2007)
Knapp M, McDaid D, Thornicroft G, Mossialos E
Open University Press
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Financing and funding mental health care services (2007)
Knapp M, McDaid D
Open University Press
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The social and economic impact of mental health: meeting the challenge (2007)
McDaid D
Radcliffe Medical Press
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Money matters: funding care (2007)
Knapp M, McDaid D, Dhanasiri S
Lippincott, Williams and Walters
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Housing and employment (2006)
Anderson R, Wynne R, McDaid D
Open University Press
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Inequalities in health: international patterns and trends (2005)
McDaid D, Oliver A
Palgrave, Macmillan
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Identifying and tackling the economic impacts of mental health problems (2003)
Knapp M, McDaid D, Grant C
STAKES, National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health
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Making use of economic evaluation (2002)
McDaid D, Mossialos E, Mrazek M
World Health Organisation Regional Office for Europe
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Disseminating information on Alzheimer's Disease to European stakeholders (2000)
McDaid D, Georges J, Meulenberg L
Radcliffe Medical Press
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Carer burden. The difficulties and rewards of caregiving (2000)
Murray J, McDaid D
Radcliffe Medical Press
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Valuing the burden of informal care: experience from two empirical studies (1998)
Sassi F, McDaid D, Joel M
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