ScHARRNews - Tuesday 1st July 2014

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What is EUNetHTA and what does it do?

The answer to this is now available in a handy set of slides (converted to pdfs).  It covers its history, relationship with national bodies, outputs (tools, databases and guidance) and external collaborations.Is it a cost-effective use of 19 million euros?  We’ll let you decide…

1 Health Economics and Decision Science Blog @ ScHARR / by HEDS / 4h

People with dementia enjoy using touch screen computers

Readers of this newsletter may know that the RAT Group are great believers in people with dementia being supported to use computers. Sarah Kate Smith from the School of Health & Related Research at the University of Sheffield has carried out a study which has concluded what we thought was true: people living with dementia do not lack the desire to interact with contemporary ICT’s but rather t

The Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology research group / by Lauren A Powell / 5h 

UK supermarkets shifting alcohol taxes - The Spirits Business

The study – published in the journal Addiction – was led by the University of Sheffield's School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), with business experts from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Loughborough ...

scharr AND sheffield - Google Blog Search / by Melita Kiely / 6h 

UK supermarkets minimise price rises for the cheapest alcohol when ...

A pioneering study, led by the University of Sheffield's School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) with business experts from the University of East Anglia and Loughborough University and funded by the Medical ...

scharr AND sheffield - Google Blog Search / by unknown / 6h 

YESTERDAY

Helping children with speech and language difficulties find their own voice

A unique support group at the University of Sheffield is helping young children with speech, language and communication difficulties to find their voice and transform their lives.

Medicine, dentistry and health - University of Sheffield / 18h 

UK supermarkets minimise price rises for the cheapest alcohol when taxes are increased

Supermarkets in the UK could be hindering efforts to reduce harmful drinking by not fully passing tax increases onto the price of the cheapest beers and spirits, according to health and business researchers. A pioneering study, led by the University of Sheffield’s School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) with business experts from the University of East Anglia and Loughborough University and

Public Health Topics / by Melanie Rimmer / 1d hide  //  save