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Richard Layard explains the benefits of making wellbeing a core public policy. ... Read more...
07 March 2023
Mental illness accounts for over 40 per cent of all sickness absence - reducing productivity at work. Richard Layard explains how this highlights the need for wellbeing provision in management practice. ... Read more...
11 May 2022
With only a quarter of pupils having access to counsellors, Richard Layard suggests that a well-being unit be set up within the Department for Education, to provide guidance to schools and help with interventions. ... Read more...
10 February 2022
Remembering Richard Layard's research on the need for evidence-based therapies, the Economist looks at developments in mental health provisions over the 15 years. ... Read more...
02 October 2021
Following the publication of the World Happiness report 2021, Rodger Dean Duncan interviews Richard Layard on happiness and mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic. ... Read more...
01 June 2021
Philip Aldrick contemplates the importance of wellbeing as economic policy, citing research by Richard Layard and George Ward. ... Read more...
26 December 2020
Employers are not vocal enough about the need for higher pay, writes Alan Manning, former chair of the government's Migration Advisory Committee and professor of economics aat LSE. ... Read more...
21 July 2020
"It's not just core relationships that matter, it's also the peripheral ones," says Professor Lord Richard Layard, a happiness researcher at the London School of Economics. "People never... Read more...
18 May 2020
Published 2015, this paper takes household data to analyse links between unemployment, life-satisfaction and mental health. Finding evidence that mental illness is a significant cause of deprivation. ... Read more...
17 April 2020
This CEP discussion paper, published in June 2017, provides evidence from survey data on USA, Australia, Britain and Indonesia which indicate the things that matter most to people’s life satisfaction are social relations... Read more...
07 April 2020
In order to tackle this, we must first accept that a well-being budget is not an 'either-or' proposition. It need not be a substitute for conventional economics, but rather, as a project that will help us develop tools a... Read more...
01 November 2019
Jacob Dabb sits down with Lord Richard Layard, who in the early 2000s successfully doubled NHS spending on talking therapy and expanded the provision of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy across the UK. Given Layard's occupa... Read more...
Researchers warned that pollution exposure before "high stakes" tests such as A levels risked serious consequences, as one poor day could cost pupils a university place. Sefi Roth, of the London School of Economics, who ... Read more...
30 September 2019
Remember, for example, the pioneering work of Richard Layard of the London School of Economics, Happiness. Lessons of a new science (2005), which explored the links between social sciences, moral philosophy and people... Read more...
24 September 2019
One of the main references of this school is Richard Layard, of the London School of Economics. In his work - among which Happiness stands out. Lessons from a new science (Taurus, 2005) - is convinced that happiness is p... Read more...
Jo Swinson speaking at the Lib Dem conference. "Two brilliant questions and to take the first one about talking therapy, you say it is expensive. I get there are upfront costs but there is also excellent research. Richa... Read more...
19 September 2019
Her government will instead put an emphasis on goals like community and cultural connection and equity in well-being across generations in what has been described as a "game-changing event" by LSE professor Richard Layar... Read more...
17 September 2019
By Felipe Carozzi In a recent paper we study how air pollution - as measured by fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentration - is shaped by cities' population density in the United States. In particular, we want to fin... Read more...
29 August 2019
Despite shorter commutes and better access to commercial and recreational activities, dense cities create environmental pollution, write Sefi Roth and Felipe Carozzi. ... Read more...
23 August 2019
But looking at the details of health-care pricing casts doubt on this explanation. For example, economists Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor and John Van Reenen have uncovered a number of odd anomalies in the way ... Read more...
22 July 2019
19 July 2019
"The striking fact is that over time, people simply do not adapt to being unemployed," says Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, an associate professor of economics and strategy at Oxford University and associate editor of th... Read more...
17 June 2019
One of the country's top experts on the condition, Richard Layard in his important work, called the Depression Report, recommended training an extra 10,000 clinical psychologists and therapists to provide cognitive behav... Read more...
16 May 2019
A decade ago, one in six people had depression or chronic anxiety, but only a quarter of them were receiving treatment - mostly drugs. The government's then happiness tsar, the economist Richard Layard, suggested that co... Read more...
15 April 2019
Researchers at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance found that the "subjective well-being," or happiness, of Britons has declined since the 2016 referendum regardless of a person's position on ... Read more...
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13 April 2019
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11 April 2019
Just as with GDP, it is only when we move to the specifics that gross national happiness becomes useful. Richard Layard, a leading happiness researcher, argues mental illness is a leading cause of misery, and it can be t... Read more...
04 March 2019
01 March 2019
From Thorstein Veblen to Richard Layard, to Richard Easterlin and others, several economists have spent the last century trying to ... [paywall] Happiness: Lessons from a new science, Richard Layard, Penguin 2011 IS... Read more...
27 February 2019
A new study found that hospital prices paid by private insurers for inpatient and outpatient care grew much more quickly than the prices paid to the physicians who provide care in these settings. For all inpatient care, ... Read more...
18 February 2019
04 February 2019
01 February 2019
Numerous studies by economists and others have underscored how hospital consolidation is driving up the cost of medical care. “Within the academic community, there is near unanimity,” said Zack Cooper, a health econo... Read more...
14 November 2018
Labour's move towards greater competition between hospitals where it was allowed may well have helped. Mortality rates for some illnesses appear to have declined faster where patient choice was expanded. CEP work cite... Read more...
Work by the Wellbeing Programme cited: "...showed that only a quarter of those who need treatment for mental illness actually get it."... Read more...
06 November 2018
If we can prevent great suffering at no cost to ourselves, we ought to do so. That principle is widely accepted and difficult to dispute. Yet Western governments are neglecting an opportunity to reduce the gre... Read more...
27 May 2018
You may not want to hear this: retirement is a new opportunity for work. There is a strong argument for abolishing the concept of retirement and thinking instead of finding a different kind of work to keep our... Read more...
24 May 2018
Lord Richard Layard discusses the relation between happiness and mental health - can your financial status determine your happiness? The interview explores the battle to get money from the Government for child... Read more...
18 May 2018
Katy is a musician and a Young Ambassador for the UK’s leading eating disorder charity, Beat. During the interview Professor Layard discussed his primary research focus on happiness and mental health (an... Read more...
13 May 2018
Health economists Zack Cooper, Stuart V. Craig, Martin Gaynor, and John Van Reenen recently released an updated version of an older paper analyzing variations in health-care pricing for privately ins... Read more...
10 May 2018
On a related note, health economists Zack Cooper, Stuart V. Craig, Martin Gaynor, and John Van Reenen recently released an updated version of an older paper analyzing variations in health-care pricin... Read more...
We’ve known for decades now that there is widespread variation in what different hospitals charge for the same medical procedures. Study after study confirms this finding (one of my favorite studies show... Read more...
09 May 2018
Richard Layard has recommended training an extra 10,000 clinical psychiatrists and therapists to deliver CBT for those who have depression, through 250 centres, providing courses costing £750. This, he a... Read more...
07 May 2018
Good mental health and having a partner make people happier than doubling their income, a new study has found. The research by the London School of Economics looked at responses from 200,000 people o... Read more...
24 April 2018
Lord Layard comments on the funding of the NHS. ... Read more...
26 March 2018
The mentally ill are overall less violent than the rest of the population. Given the funding proposed by the president, they are also unlikely to receive the medical and psychiatric care they so badly need and... Read more...
25 February 2018
We no longer speak only of the individual situation of the people affected, we speak of the economic situation of a whole country. Referring to the research done by one of the most illustrious economists of th... Read more...
09 February 2018
08 February 2018
The prospect of this book did make me happy. The idea that a group of well-respected, eminent economists would be making the case that government should focus its efforts on increasing the happiness ... Read more...
22 January 2018
Schools and individual teachers have a huge effect on the happiness of their children. Indeed, the school that children attend affects their happiness nearly as much as it affects their academic performance. W... Read more...
He told The Irish Times that the impact of loneliness on physical health was “equivalent to 15 cigarettes a day and a study by the London School of Economics found that it cost the UK state an average of... Read more...
18 January 2018
Politics: 29 October 2012 The extra physical healthcare necessitated by mental illness costs the NHS a further £10 billion a year, according to the London School of Economics. ... Read more...
17 January 2018
Trovato il segreto della felicita per I bambini di oggi: parola di esparto/Found the secret of happiness for today's children: word of esparto After investigating the factors that in a person's life... Read more...
16 January 2018
In 2003, at an afternoon tea, economist Richard Layard began speaking to the person standing next to him, psychologist David Clark, asking if he knew much about mental illness. They had never met before, but s... Read more...
19 December 2017
Research by the London School of Economics a few years ago showed that while mental illness accounts for nearly half of all ill health in the under-65s, only a quarter of people in need of treatment actually g... Read more...
16 December 2017
David M Clark, Lauren Canvin, John Green, Richard Layard, Stephen Pilling and Magdalena Janecka DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32133-5 ... Read more...
07 December 2017
An article in the British newspaper The Telegraph by Sophie Jamieson described how mindfulness and meditation training helped prisoners and prison guards control anger and reduce depression and anxiety. ... Read more...
Richard Layard and his co-workers wanted to know how much money the British government has to allocate to reduce mental illness, physical ill health, unemployment and poverty. They concluded that the cheapest ... Read more...
26 November 2017
24 November 2017
If we can prevent great suffering at no cost to ourselves, we ought to do so. Yet Western governments are neglecting an opportunity to reduce the great misery caused by mental illness, even though the net cost... Read more...
19 November 2017
PRINCETON – If we can prevent great suffering at no cost to ourselves, we ought to do so. That principle is widely accepted and difficult to dispute. Yet Western governments are neglecting an opportunity... Read more...
15 November 2017
People prefer happiness to income, children, career and education, but being healthy trumps it all, writes Paul Dolan. ... Read more...
07 November 2017
In Great Britain they have chosen a different path. According to Richard Layard's Health Economist Program, with an estimated 12 million jobs, a system has been developed that provides effective and rapid ... Read more...
30 October 2017
If policymakers focused on tackling mental illness instead of only focusing on eliminating poverty, global misery levels could decrease by 20 percent, according to a London School of Economics study. Reducing ... Read more...
17 October 2017
Tweet by Alastair Campbell: Alastair CampbellVerified account @campbellclaret Oct 10 Follow Follow @campbellclaret Launching @beisgovuk as @TimetoChange employer with Perm Sec Alex Chisholm ... Read more...
12 October 2017
The UK Centre for Mental Health calculated that presenteeism from mental ill health alone costs the UK economy £15.1 billion (S$26.5 billion) per annum, while absenteeism costs £8.4 billion (S$14.4... Read more...
Another landmark study by researchers at the London School of Economics attributed most human misery to failed relationships and physical and mental illness rather than measurable problems like poverty. These ... Read more...
11 October 2017
Article by Richard Layard With modern psychological therapy, mentally ill people can become more productive and more satisfied with life. ... Read more...
Indeed, a recent study by Richard Layard at the London School of Economics suggests that emotional wellbeing in childhood is more important to an adult’s satisfaction levels than academic success or weal... Read more...
12 September 2017
So Zack Cooper of Yale University and three other researchers argue in a paper to be published on September 4th. They studied reforms passed in 2003 that allowed over-65s to obtain prescription drugs through M... Read more...
02 September 2017
In a 2016 study of eight countries spanning diverse cultures and gross domestic product (GDP) ranges, Dr Sara Evans-Lacko and Prof Martin Knapp from the London School of Economics and Polit... Read more...
31 August 2017
There is a wealth of evidence to suggest that proactive rather than reactive mental healthcare and treatment is in the interest of the NHS as well as individuals. A report by The Centre for Economic Performanc... Read more...
30 August 2017
The British health experiment began in 2008. In the first wave, 35 clinics were created with a total of thousands of workers, but the system was immediately overwhelmed by huge floods of interest. Now a projec... Read more...
31 July 2017
In 2005, David Clark, a professor of psychology at the University of Oxford, and economist Richard Layard, a member of the House of Lords, came to the conclusion that it made economic sense to provide therapeu... Read more...
30 July 2017
LONDON — England is in the midst of a unique national experiment, the world’s most ambitious effort to treat depression, anxiety and other common mental illnesses. …In 2005 David Clark, a... Read more...
A horrifying study by the London School of Economics a few years ago showed that while mental illness accounts for nearly half of all ill health in the under-65s, only 25 per cent of those in need of treatment... Read more...
29 July 2017
In 2005 David Clark, a professor of psychology at Oxford University, and the economist Richard Layard, a member of the House of Lords, concluded that providing therapy to people like Oliver made economic sense... Read more...
24 July 2017
The same report by academics (John F. Helliwell, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and Vancouver School of Economics Richard Layard, Director, London School of Economics, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Columbia Univ... Read more...
12 July 2017
According to a study by the London School of Economics (LSE), with the participation of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, most human misery is not due to economic factors, but to faile... Read more...
06 July 2017
A study by Zack Cooper, Martin Gaynor and John Van Reenen — economists at Yale, Carnegie Mellon University, and the London School of Economics, respectively — concludes that lack of competition and... Read more...
02 July 2017
The 25th Arrow Award for the best paper in health economics is awarded to Martin Gaynor, Carol Propper, and [CEP Alumni] Stephan Seiler for their paper “Free to choose? Reform, choice and considera... Read more...
27 June 2017
The parties all recognised funding shortfalls, rising costs, demographic pressures, increased expectations, and changes in health technology and medical practice, the London School of Economics Centre for Econ... Read more...
25 May 2017
Luis Garicano, professor of the London School of Economics and responsible for economy, industry and knowledge of citizens, Expoñía ("exceptional doctors who say goodbye soon and badly"... Read more...
18 May 2017
Earlier this month, Lord Layard, director of the wellbeing programme at the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance, called for all schools to employ a senior teacher in charge of men... Read more...
16 May 2017
Lord Layard also wants government to assess how much value schools add to pupils’ happiness Every school should have an on-site therapist, according to one of the country’s leading economists an... Read more...
11 May 2017
Schools across the country are going to trial lessons on happiness and dealing with mental health issues. Professor Richard Layard, who is a government adviser for a four-year trial of weekly mindfulness ... Read more...
13 March 2017
Lord Layard, who is a government adviser for a current four-year trial of weekly mindfulness classes in 26 schools, said there was an obsession with measuring only academic achievement. “The developme... Read more...
12 March 2017
Chancellor Angela Merkel and international experts have discussed ways of improving global health. This is a matter of major importance, she said, and thus one of the priorities of Germany’s G20 Presiden... Read more...
10 March 2017
Having good mental health and being in a good relationship makes people happier than doubling income points says study. The London School of Economics, in the United Kingdom, interviewed 200,000 people i... Read more...
08 March 2017
If I asked what makes you happy what would you say? I think many of us would answer money. But according to a study by researchers at the London School of Economics, much of the world’s unhappiness stems... Read more...
05 March 2017
28 February 2017
“We keep on finding in every country that the mental health problems are the biggest causes of misery,” says Richard Layard of the London School of Economics, who along with colleague Sarah Fl&egra... Read more...
Martin Knapp is director of health and social care at the London school of economics and an economist specialising in health and social care. ... Read more...
24 February 2017
A dedicated tax is the only way that we can be sure the government is reflecting public wishes, says Richard Layard, but John Appleby argues it would not protect funding from economic uncertainty Yes—... Read more...
08 February 2017
A horrifying study done by the London School of Economics a few years ago showed that while mental illness accounts for nearly half of all ill-health in the under-65s, only a quarter of people in need of treat... Read more...
21 January 2017
As highlighted by LSE researchers, UK education policymakers have focused much of their attention on improving academic achievement over the last half century, in the hope that this will result in higher level... Read more...
11 January 2017
A nasty mix of neoliberalism and the Tories’ austerity policies are having appalling effects on our children’s health and welfare And so we come to the present day, with a 10-year anniversary pr... Read more...
10 January 2017
The old folk saying "If you've got your health you've got your wealth" is finding new proponents from a recent study done by the London College of Economics, under the direction of Lord Richa... Read more...
After decades languishing as one of the most underfunded medical problems, mental illness began to receive some of the attention it deserved under Tony Blair’s government. In 2006, a London School of Eco... Read more...
09 January 2017
According to a study from the London School of Economics, brisk walking is a better deterrent against obesity than any other form of exercise. Men and women who walk briskly for more than 30 minutes a day w... Read more...
03 January 2017
LSE study led by Labour peer found that failed relationships and physical and mental illness were bigger causes of misery than poverty Clinical psychologists have raised the alarm over a controversial piece... Read more...
26 December 2016
Educationalists, psychologists and authors also call for a minister for children to try to address ‘toxic’ nature of childhood “Without concerted action, our children’s physical and ... Read more...
25 December 2016
Too often in our business we focus primarily on finances. Of course, that is what financial professionals do, but we could be neglecting an important, maybe more important, piece of the pie. The recent London ... Read more...
22 December 2016
What makes humans happy? What makes you happy? Is it the material and tangible things? Or is it experiences or people? Happiness can be measured and defined in so many ways but according to a study by a t... Read more...
16 December 2016
What distinguishes ‘Les Misérables’ from the rest is neither poverty nor unemployment, but mental illness, write Andrew Clark, Sarah Fleche, Richard Layard, Nattavudh (Nick) Powdthavee and G... Read more...
12 December 2016
Understanding the key determinants of people’s life satisfaction will suggest policies for how best to reduce misery and promote wellbeing. This column discusses evidence from survey data on Australia, B... Read more...
Good mental health and having a partner make people happier than doubling their income, a new study has found. The research by the London School of Economics looked at responses from 200,000 people on how diff... Read more...
...to those who weren't bullied. And authors of the study by the London School of Economics and Political Science... (No link) The article was published online by The Press on November 15, 2016 [No l... Read more...
15 November 2016
Martin Knapp is here. Professor of social policy at .. depression, anxiety, bullies themselves never seem to be affected. Professor thank you very much we’ve had a lot of emails on this… The in... Read more...
14 November 2016
Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia affect huge numbers of people - a third of all over-80s have some form of dementia, estimates the US CDC. This has two key effects. Firstly, Alzheimer's is a major killer in its o... Read more...
23 September 2016
... University and the London-based Centre for Economic Performance. ''Health insurance coverage and ... This article was published by Dubuque Telegraph Herald (USA) on July 13, 2016 Link to article here [Subscrip... Read more...
13 July 2016
Article by Joan Costa-i-Font, Mireia Jofre-Bonet, Julian Le Grand 02 June 2016 Obesity, particularly in children, is a major health concern in many developed economies, where it presents a costly risk to health ser... Read more...
02 June 2016
Michael Pluess and Richard Layard interviewed about resilience and mental health. The interview was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on May 31, 2016 Link to interview here Related links Richard Layard webpage Michael Plue... Read more...
31 May 2016
The second programme I heard and was inspired by was this week's Radio 4 'All in the Mind'. The key messages here also chimed with much of my own thinking about the purpose of education, the pressures created by asse... Read more...
29 May 2016
As every summer, exams are in the news. We look at whether the pressure to do well in exams is having an effect on children's mental health. We speak to experts from Education, Psychology and Economics who are now work... Read more...
24 May 2016
Hunt argues that, with the NHS budget already under huge pressure, funding levels can only be maintained if the British economy remains strong. He cites a series of economic surveys, including from the CBI, the London Sc... Read more...
26 March 2016
How to reduce the risk of depression during your retirement? The good news of the day, is that I put a hand on a study that deals with precisely this sensitive topic. Entitled Retirement blues, it is written by Gabriel ... Read more...
14 March 2016
Not exactly, but researchers from the London School of Economics and Political Science did find that walkers tend to be thinner than gym-goers. In an analysis of 50,000 people over the age of 13, those who did at least 3... Read more...
11 March 2016
Recently, Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor, and John Van Reenen released a landmark study on national private health care price variation that was completely at odds with Medicare data on health care spending. T... Read more...
10 March 2016
It's not every day that an unpublished academic study rates a front-page story in the New York Times, let alone an additional continuation page replete with graphics, but that was the treatment accorded to the study titl... Read more...
21 January 2016
... gym membership for some good walking shoes. New research from the London School of Economics and Political ... This article was published by the Leicester Mercury on January 4, 2016 (no link available) Related L... Read more...
04 January 2016
A recent study by Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor, and John Van Reenen has documented the remarkable variations across regions and age groups, and within regions, in U.S. health care spending. Previously, the Da... Read more...
30 December 2015
The cost of medical care varies widely across the United States, a new study reports. Hospitals negotiate the cost of medical services with insurance companies. And, the new report found that prices at hospitals in monop... Read more...
26 December 2015
...gym membership for some good walking shoes. New research from the London School of Economics and Political ... This article was published by the Western Mail (Cardiff) on December 21, 2015 [No link available.] Re... Read more...
21 December 2015
18 December 2015
3. New data shows experts were wrong about where healthcare costs less Researchers analyzed the real prices hospitals negotiate with private insurers and found places that spend less on Medicare do not necessarily spend... Read more...
Article by David Metcalf Would it be sensible to fill vacancies by attracting extra nurses from outside of the EU? These are the main questions the home secretary asked the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to examine ... Read more...
16 December 2015
A new ''Big Data'' project from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics demonstrates that the prices hospitals negotiate with private ... Read more...
15 December 2015
The cost insurance companies pay for a medical operation in a hospital varies dramatically from city to city within the U.S. and can even vary by a factor of nine within an individual city, according to new research. The... Read more...
Health care is among the largest sectors of the U.S. economy and accounted for more than 17 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2014. About 60 percent of the U.S. population has private health insurance, which pay... Read more...
Commercial health plans that cover workplace benefits for millions of Americans pay higher prices to hospitals that have little or no competition, according to a new study that raises questions about how to slow U.S. hea... Read more...
Economists at Yale, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics have released a paper that shows vast differences in charges for hospital procedures across the country. Unlike some... Read more...
Three of the nation's largest insurance companies - Aetna, Humana and UnitedHealth - have let researchers have a look at the negotiated prices they pay for services and procedures like C-sections, MRIs and hospital sta... Read more...
The prices hospitals negotiate with health insurance companies vary enormously within and across geographic regions in the United States, according to a new study coauthored by a Yale economist. ... ''Virtually everythin... Read more...
According to the report, titled ''The Price Ain't Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured,'' information collected on Medicare has largely impacted the country's health-care policy as data on ... Read more...
While many studies have shown that Medicare gets a good deal in Rochester, Duluth and Minneapolis, new work from four economists suggests that private insurers in those cities pay noticeably more for care. This article ... Read more...
Researchers have compiled data on $682 billion worth of claims to look at the truth behind medical costs. This article was published online by Marketplace.org on December 15, 2015 Link to article here Related publi... Read more...
Hospitals that face fewer competitors have considerably higher prices, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Yale University, University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economi... Read more...
... But a new study casts doubt on that simple message. The research looked not only at Medicare but also at a huge, new database drawn from private-insurance plans - the sorts used by most Americans for health care. And... Read more...
L'etude est parue dans la revue Risk Analysis a l'initiative de deux specialistes de l'economie de sante, le Dr Grace Lordan (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK) et le Dr Debayan Pakrashi (School of Ec... Read more...
10 December 2015
... your gym membership for some good walking shoes. Research from the London School of Economics and Political Science ... This article was published by the Lincolnshire Echo on December 10, 2015 Also in Newcastle Jo... Read more...
New research from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) found that people aged over 50, and women of all ages, who regularly walked briskly for more than 30 minutes at a time, had a lower body mass i... Read more...
08 December 2015
... published last month, walking is better for you than hitting the gym. The London School of Economics found people who... This article was published online by The i on December 5, 2015 (no link available) Also in... Read more...
05 December 2015
Professor Martin Knapp at the London School of Economics and Political Science will lead another study, which will develop a publicly available tool to help meet the future needs of dementia patients and their carers. A ... Read more...
03 December 2015
New research from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) found that people over 50, and women of all ages, who regularly walked briskly for more than 30 minutes at a time, had a lower body mass index ... Read more...
WANT to slim down and get healthier in the New Year? Forget trendy workouts and pricey gym memberships - according to research, you're better off going for a walk. So what is it about walking that's so effective? A very... Read more...
02 December 2015
A study published earlier this month concluded that a brisk walk is better for keeping weight off than going to the gym. Women of all ages and men over the age of 50 who regularly walked for more than 30 minutes were fou... Read more...
01 December 2015
A study published earlier this month concluded that a brisk walk is better for keeping weight off than going to the gym. Women of all ages and men over the age of 50 who regularly walked for more than 30 minutes were fo... Read more...
30 November 2015
Happiness in life can be traced in the shape of a 'U'. We start with the enthusiasm of 20 years, then you hit the lowest point between 45 and 55, but from sixty things start to look up again. ... The latest confirmation... Read more...
27 November 2015
And just to be clear, having a kid isn't worse for you than unemployment or losing a spouse, even though that's what the new study found. Nick Powdthavee, a happiness researcher at the London School of Economics and the ... Read more...
26 November 2015
Money should follow patients and they need information and choice, write Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen In work with Carol Propper and Stephan Seiler, we evaluate whether competition improves hospital quality, in pa... Read more...
25 November 2015
Researchers from the London School of Economics looked at how regularly Britons engaged in 30 minutes or more of walking, moderate intensity exercise such as going to the gym, swimming, dancing, running and tennis, as we... Read more...
12 November 2015
The research was led by assistant professor Grace Lordan, who specializes in health economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, a school of the University of London. She analyzed data on physical a... Read more...
10 November 2015
Prioritising wellbeing as a key measure of whether policy is improving human lives would lead to more interventions like the provision of psychological therapy for people with mental health problems, which increased acc... Read more...
... maybe a brisk walk this is the thing researchers at the London School of Economics reckon going freight 30 minute brisk ... This piece was broadcast by BBC Radio Nottingham on November 9, 2015 Link to article here ... Read more...
09 November 2015
Walking officially beats them all, hands (or rather feet) down. Regular walking is the best thing you can do to achieve and maintain a healthy weight, according to a study from the London School of Economics. It conclude... Read more...
Good old-fashioned brisk walking on a regular basis may trump gym workouts and other types of exercise when it comes to managing weight. London School of Economics researchers wanted to look at associations between vario... Read more...
Could it be time to quit the gym altogether? Not exactly, but researchers from the London School of Economics and Political Science did find that walkers tend to be thinner than gym-goers. In an analysis of 50,000 peopl... Read more...
WISH has also established the Mental Health and Well-being in Children Forum, chaired by Professor the Lord Richard Layard, Wellbeing Program Director at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Econom... Read more...
08 November 2015
Mention of LSE report which outlined the benefits of regular brisk walking. Report mentioned on WUSA-TV on November 8, 2015 [No link available] Also on: KBMT-TV, 08.11.2015 (18 hours, 45 minutes ago) This Week Wit... Read more...
''Walking is a lasting habit,'' said the study's author, Grace Lordan of the London School of Economics. '''Going to the gym takes much more time than walking out the door and turning left''. This article was published... Read more...
04 November 2015
Martin Knapp comments on costs of NHS beds and cost of private provision. This interview was broadcast by BBC Radio 4, Your and Yours show, on September 3, 2015 Link to programme here Related links Martin Knapp webpa... Read more...
03 September 2015
On average, sexual-minority adults are more likely to be single, tend to have worse health and are less likely to be employed than heterosexuals, say Nattavudh Powdthavee of the London School of Economics and Mark Wooden... Read more...
11 August 2015
It was some considerable interest that I read a contribution in dementia policy, co-authored by one of my previous bosses, Prof Martin Rossor. The other co-author was Prof Martin Knapp from LSE. This article was publis... Read more...
04 August 2015
Those of us who have run hospitals where we've been serious about achieving improvements in quality and safety know that without a highly committed board of trustees, the results will never be sustainable. And so it is l... Read more...
03 August 2015
Further evidence: children in a London School of Economics and Political Science study from 2014 who had two overweight biological parents were 27 percent more likely than other kids to be overweight, yet adopted childre... Read more...
11 June 2015
The authoritative How Mental Health Loses Out in the NHS study, published by the LSE in 2012, revealed that for people aged 65 or less, nearly half of all ill health was mental ill health. This article was published o... Read more...
15 May 2015
... go away'', said David Marsden, an expert in employee relations at the London School of Economics. How management deals with the current tragedy could affect the tenor of future talks, said ... This article was p... Read more...
30 March 2015
PARENTS' lifestyles, rather than their genes, are primarily responsible for their children being overweight, according to new research. Researchers at the Centre for Economic Performance compared the weight of biological... Read more...
11 February 2015
Article by Joan Costa-i-Font and Valentina Zigante Several countries across Europe have attempted to reform their health systems by allowing patients more choice over their healthcare provider. The typical rationale for... Read more...
21 November 2014
Men are taller in a democracy than if grown up in a communist regime ''Men who grow up in a democracy tend to be taller than those who have lived their first 20 years of life under a Communist regime.'' The assertion ma... Read more...
20 November 2014
Give doctors bonuses for asking the right diagnosis Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics, Martin Knapp, says such incentive schemes tend to have an effect. He thinks this controversial measure wi... Read more...
What a growing body of research reveals about the biology of human happiness - and how to navigate the (temporary) slump in middle age Oswald, Terence Cheng, and Nattavudh Powdthavee have found the U-curve in four longi... Read more...
17 November 2014
The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) has held a special debate on education and wellbeing in partnership with the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) at the Qatar National Convention Centre. ... WISH h... Read more...
08 November 2014
Zack Cooper discusses whether US efforts to reform health care could mean a loss of medical innovation for the rest of the world. This interview was broadcast on Public Radio International on November 7, 2014 Link to... Read more...
07 November 2014
In an article sourced from the Centre for Economic Performance's Mental Health Policy Group, the Health and Social Care Information Centre, the Mental Health Foundation, Young Minds and the Guardian the Mirror explains w... Read more...
09 October 2014
''En los paises ricos, las enfermedades mentales son el 38 percent de todas las enfermedades; y el porcentaje trepa a 50 percent en la poblacion trabajadora'', dice Richard Layard, economista de la London School of Econo... Read more...
27 July 2014
One in three families contains someone who suffers mental illness, with one in 10 children having diagnosable mental disorders - yet fewer than one-third of these people receive treatment. Such shocking statistics litte... Read more...
Mental health is receiving just 10% of NHS spending across England, with some areas dedicating more like 6 percent of their budgets to it, Sky News can reveal. Charities say the figures ''paint a profoundly worrying pict... Read more...
25 July 2014
On average, local health authorities across England spent 10 percent of their annual budgets on mental health services during 2013/14, despite research from the London School of Economics that shows that it accounted for... Read more...
Article by Richard Layard and David M. Clark, 3rd instalment in a series of excerpts from 'Thrive' A standard course of cognitive behavioural therapy involves up to 16 one-hour sessions, one-on-one - with the average nu... Read more...
11 July 2014
In an interview with Joel Suss, editor of the British Politics and Policy blog, Richard Layard discusses the importance of combating mental illness and his new book, Thrive: The Power of Evidence-Based Psychological Ther... Read more...
10 July 2014
Depression and anxiety cause more misery than physical illness, poverty or unemployment. They also impose huge economic costs. Yet they are amenable to effective and relatively cheap treatments. In the UK, however, fewer... Read more...
Once upon a time, David Cameron said that general wellbeing matters as much GDP. What's it all for if a country grows richer but its people feel no better? A genuine attempt at prioritizing wellbeing would be revolutiona... Read more...
09 July 2014
Ultimately the biggest task remains ensuring our creaking health service is more responsive to the needs of mental health outpatients. And here there may be cause for cautious optimism. Because new research by Professo... Read more...
07 July 2014
If there is one area of the NHS in desperate need of change, it is mental healthcare provision. Professors Richard Layard and David Clark highlight in Thrive: The Power of Evidence-Based Psychological Therapies that it i... Read more...
04 July 2014
This week, a new book by Lord Layard and Professor David Clark sets out a call for a transformation in the way we think about mental health and the priority mental health care is given. Thrive: the power of evidence-base... Read more...
02 July 2014
Article by Richard Layard Nearly 40 percent of all illness in this country is mental illness, but most of it is untreated. It is the greatest injustice in our society and every party's manifesto needs a plan to redress ... Read more...
01 July 2014
When the London School of Economics looked at the issues that hold people in long-term unemployment, common mental health difficulties like anxiety and depression were the largest cause. This operates as feedback loop. T... Read more...
13 May 2014
A new report by the charity and the London School of Economics claims that over two to five years, investment in early detection services could save the NHS £50 million a year. ''Too much'' of the current budget to... Read more...
10 April 2014
The last government's happiness tsar, LSE economist Richard Layard, recommended cognitive behavioural therapy to reduce the cost to the NHS of depression. Where do you stand on happiness-enhancing CBT? ''Playing games ca... Read more...
09 November 2013
According to the UK Centre for Economic Performance, mental illness accounts for nearly half of all ill health in the under 65s. But this begs the question: what is mental illness? How can we judge whether our thoughts a... Read more...
15 May 2013
This post by Richard Layard is part of a series produced by The Huffington Post, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center for Investigating Healthy Minds and the Global Health Institute in conjunction with the Change... Read more...
13 May 2013
MENTAL health is such an important issue it deserves its own Government minister, says a top professor.The call by Lord Layard follows an explosion in mental illness. It now accounts for almost half of all sickness in th... Read more...
18 June 2012
Talking therapies such as cognitive behaviour therapy relieves anxiety and depression in 40% of those treated, says the Mental Health Policy Group led by Lord Layard. But despite government funding to train more therapis... Read more...
CEP has produced rigorous research evidence on the impact of hospital competition, pay regulation and management performance on quality, productivity and equity in the NHS. Policy needs to be informed by evidence. Below ... Read more...
13 June 2011
Articles for this issue will be available for download on Wednesday 10 November 2010. Please visit CentrePiece website at http://cep.lse.ac.uk/CentrePiece - OR - To keep up to date with the very latest articles from the... Read more...
09 November 2010
In a series of recent studies, health economists at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) have demonstrated that the introduction of patient choice and hospital competition into the NHS from 2006 onwards has improved... Read more...
13 July 2010
The latest CEP Election Analysis, published jointly with LSE Health, gives an overview of the research evidence on UK healthcare, one of the key battlegrounds of the 2010 General Election. The publication is summarise... Read more...
14 April 2010