Richard Cookson

7.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
129 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Richard Cookson is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Cookson has authored 129 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in General Health Professions, 87 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 31 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Richard Cookson's work include Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (58 papers), Healthcare Policy and Management (53 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (46 papers). Richard Cookson is often cited by papers focused on Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (58 papers), Healthcare Policy and Management (53 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (46 papers). Richard Cookson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Richard Cookson's co-authors include Miqdad Asaria, Paul Dolan, Susan Griffin, Brian Ferguson, Mauro Laudicella, Robert Fleetcroft, Nils Gutacker, Luigi Siciliani, Helen Weatherly and Ole Frithjof Norheim and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Gastroenterology.

In The Last Decade

Richard Cookson

124 papers receiving 4.3k citations

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Return on investment of public health interventions: a systematic review

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard Cookson United Kingdom	36	2.5k	2.5k	530	433	373	129	4.5k
Nigel Rice United Kingdom	40	2.3k 0.9×	2.8k 1.2×	996 1.9×	373 0.9×	298 0.8×	121	5.0k
Bryan Dowd United States	39	2.7k 1.1×	2.9k 1.2×	334 0.6×	655 1.5×	249 0.7×	210	5.8k
Dimitris Niakas Greece	36	1.1k 0.4×	1.8k 0.7×	344 0.6×	455 1.1×	288 0.8×	170	4.7k
Neeraj Sood United States	33	1.9k 0.7×	1.7k 0.7×	285 0.5×	371 0.9×	341 0.9×	202	4.2k
Anthony J. Culyer United Kingdom	41	4.1k 1.6×	3.1k 1.3×	386 0.7×	524 1.2×	634 1.7×	232	7.0k
M. Kate Bundorf United States	26	1.3k 0.5×	2.1k 0.8×	547 1.0×	379 0.9×	245 0.7×	105	3.5k
Darius Lakdawalla United States	41	2.4k 0.9×	2.0k 0.8×	395 0.7×	855 2.0×	241 0.6×	206	5.9k
Sherry Glied United States	35	1.8k 0.7×	2.3k 0.9×	507 1.0×	525 1.2×	293 0.8×	237	5.9k
Jennifer E. DeVoe United States	35	2.0k 0.8×	3.3k 1.3×	431 0.8×	837 1.9×	298 0.8×	249	5.0k
Karen Davis United States	34	2.6k 1.0×	3.6k 1.5×	322 0.6×	494 1.1×	174 0.5×	223	5.3k

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Lau, Yiu‐Shing, Matt Sutton, Michael Anderson, et al.. (2024). Inequalities in the prevalence recording of 205 chronic conditions recorded in primary and secondary care for 12 million patients in the English National Health Service. BMC Medicine. 22(1). 570–570. 3 indexed citations

Chicoye, A, Richard Cookson, Nancy Devlin, et al.. (2024). Capturing the Value of Vaccination within Health Technology Assessment and Health Economics—Practical Considerations for Expanding Valuation by Including Key Concepts. Vaccines. 12(7). 773–773. 3 indexed citations

Castro-Ávila, Ana Cristina, Richard Cookson, Tim Doran, et al.. (2024). Are local public expenditure reductions associated with increases in inequality in emergency hospitalisation? Time-series analysis of English local authorities from 2010 to 2017. Emergency Medicine Journal. 41(7). 389–396. 1 indexed citations

Cookson, Richard, et al.. (2024). Does household income predict health and educational outcomes in childhood better than neighbourhood deprivation?. Journal of Public Health. 47(1). 62–73.

Stewart, Emma, Anna Pearce, Joanne Given, et al.. (2023). Identifying opportunities for upstream evaluations relevant to child and maternal health: a UK policy-mapping review. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 108(7). 556–562. 5 indexed citations

Asaria, Miqdad, et al.. (2023). Clustering of adverse health and educational outcomes in adolescence following early childhood disadvantage: population-based retrospective UK cohort study. The Lancet Public Health. 8(4). e286–e293. 7 indexed citations

Moschetti, Karine, Marie‐Annick Le Pogam, Isabelle Peytremann‐Bridevaux, et al.. (2023). Potentially avoidable hospitalizations and socioeconomic status in Switzerland: A small area-level analysis. Health Policy. 139. 104948–104948. 1 indexed citations

Allanson, Paul & Richard Cookson. (2022). Comparing healthcare quality: A common framework for both ordinal and cardinal data with an application to primary care variation in England. Health Economics. 31(12). 2593–2608. 2 indexed citations

Doran, Tim, et al.. (2021). Health inequality in Britain before 1750. SSM - Population Health. 16. 100957–100957. 1 indexed citations

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Cookson, Richard, et al.. (2021). Equity-informative methods of health services research. Journal of Health Organization and Management. 35(6). 665–681. 8 indexed citations

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Sowden, Sarah, Josephine M. Wildman, Richard Cookson, et al.. (2020). Interventions to reduce inequalities in avoidable hospital admissions: explanatory framework and systematic review protocol. BMJ Open. 10(7). e035429–e035429. 15 indexed citations

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Barbosa, Estela Capelas & Richard Cookson. (2019). Multiple inequity in health care: An example from Brazil. Social Science & Medicine. 228. 1–8. 30 indexed citations

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Cookson, Richard. (2016). “Equity-informative health technology assessment – A commentary on Ngalesoni, Ruhago, Mori, Robberstad & Norheim”. Social Science & Medicine. 170. 218–219. 4 indexed citations

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Asaria, Miqdad, Richard Cookson, Robert Fleetcroft, & Shehzad Ali. (2016). Unequal socioeconomic distribution of the primary care workforce: whole-population small area longitudinal study. BMJ Open. 6(1). e008783–e008783. 29 indexed citations

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Fleetcroft, Robert, Richard Cookson, Nicholas Steel, & Amanda Howe. (2011). Correlation between prescribing quality and pharmaceutical costs in English primary care: national cross-sectional analysis. British Journal of General Practice. 61(590). e556–e564. 8 indexed citations

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Walker, Simon, Anne Mason, Karl Claxton, et al.. (2010). Value for money and the Quality and Outcomes Framework in primary care in the UK NHS. British Journal of General Practice. 60(574). e213–e220. 58 indexed citations

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Cookson, Richard, Mike Drummond, & Helen Weatherly. (2009). Explicit incorporation of equity considerations into economic evaluation of public health interventions. Health Economics Policy and Law. 4(2). 231–245. 123 indexed citations

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Fleetcroft, Robert, Nicholas Steel, Richard Cookson, & Amanda Howe. (2008). "Mind the gap!" Evaluation of the performance gap attributable to exception reporting and target thresholds in the new GMS contract: National database analysis. BMC Health Services Research. 8(1). 131–131. 13 indexed citations

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Cookson, Richard, et al.. (2001). Wrong SIGN, NICE mess: is national guidance distorting allocation of resources?. BMJ. 323(7315). 743–745. 70 indexed citations

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Oliver, Adam & Richard Cookson. (2000). Towards multidisciplinary research into health inequalities. Health Economics. 9(7). 565–566. 2 indexed citations

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