Deadline: 29 September 2017
The Health Foundation is seeking applications for its Economic and Social Value of Health Research programme with an aim to generate new knowledge and expand their understanding of the impact that a person’s physical and/or mental health has on their own economic and social outcomes over the medium to long term.
Economic and social factors have a complex, dynamic and multi-directional relationship with people’s health. While much is known about their impact on people’s health, relatively little is understood about the impact of individuals’ health on the economy and society.
Areas of Interest
- the impact of a person’s health on the economic and social aspects of their life, both at specific points in time, and over the course of their lives
- understanding how individuals’ different experiences of health leads to varying economic and social outcomes in the future
- comparing across generations to find out whether similar experiences of health result in different outcomes, reflecting a changing context
- methods that test explicitly whether health affects economic and social outcomes, rather than economic and social factors affecting health.
Projects funded as part of this call will help to develop understanding of the economic and social case for investing in strategies that maintain, protect and create health more broadly than through investment in health care, by reframing health as an asset that can potentially deliver wider economic and social returns on investment.
Funding Information
- £1.5 million is available for research that builds the evidence for health as an asset for the economy and society, and generates new knowledge to understand the impact that the health of an individual has on their own social and economic outcomes.
- Each project will receive between £150,000 and £350,000 for research that is up to three years in duration.
How to Apply
Interested applicants must submit applications online via given website.
Eligible Country: United Kingdom
For more information, please visit Economic and Social Value of Health.