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The Health Economics Research Unit (HERU) is part of the Institute of Applied Health Sciences within the College of Life Sciences and Medicine of the University of Aberdeen. The Unit has strong links with the Department of Economics and collaborates with members of the Department on a number of externally funded research programmes. HERU has a national remit within Scotland to research the best ways to provide health care, and to train those working in the health services in health economics. The objectives of HERU are to: Research into economic approaches to health & health care; Develop economic techniques to be readily applied by economists and/or health care personnel; Demonstrate and test the approaches and techniques: Accumulate and make available to the health service a body of expertise in health economics. The objectives are pursued through four distinct programmes of research Economic Evaluation; Behaviour, Performance and Organisation of Care; Evaluation of Health Improvement and Valuation & Implementation Programme.