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  1. Developing initial programme theory for realist economic evaluation: A review of findings from three pilot studies

    Article • Evaluation, June 2026, SAGE Publications

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  2. Translating Q methodology results into survey questions for large-scale use: a comparison of approaches

    Article • International Journal of Social Research Methodology, February 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  3. Creating the conditions for meaningful and effective PPIE in community-based public health research: learning from a UK-wide lived experience panel

    Article • Research Involvement and Engagement, July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  4. Public preferences for health and non-health outcomes of Universal Basic Income and alternative income-based policies: A mixed-method feasibility study

    Article • Public Health Research, July 2025, National Institute for Health Research

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  5. Trading-off outcomes and policy characteristics of a Universal Basic Income and a Minimum Income Guarantee: Evidence from an exploratory mixed-method preference-based study

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, April 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  6. Is Government Policy a Barrier or Facilitator to the Work of Place-Based Community-led Nonprofits?

    Article • Nonprofit Policy Forum, December 2024, De Gruyter

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  7. Causes, Solutions and Health Inequalities: Comparing Perspectives of Professional Stakeholders and Community Participants Experiencing Low Income and Poor Health in London

    Article • Health Expectations, December 2024, Wiley

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  8. Poverty and multiple long-term health conditions: Financial diaries to explore daily challenges

    Article • PLOS One, June 2024, PLOS

    Olga Biosca, Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  9. From polarity to plurality: Perceptions of COVID‐19 and policy measures in England and Scotland

    Article • Health Expectations, May 2024, Wiley

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  10. Charting public views on the meaning of illness severity

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, April 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  11. We need to talk about values: a proposed framework for the articulation of normative reasoning in health technology assessment

    Article • Health Economics Policy and Law, September 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  12. Developing a combined framework for priority setting in integrated health and social care systems

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  13. A severely fragmented concept: Uncovering citizens’ subjective accounts of severity of illness

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, August 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  14. Policy actors’ perceptions of public participation to tackle health inequalities in Scotland: a paradox?

    Article • International Journal for Equity in Health, March 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  15. Common health assets protocol: a mixed-methods, realist evaluation and economic appraisal of how community-led organisations (CLOs) impact on the health and well-being of people living in deprived areas

    Article • BMJ Open, March 2023, BMJ

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  16. Protocol for estimating the willingness-to-pay-based value for a quality-adjusted life year to aid health technology assessment in India: a cross-sectional study

    Article • BMJ Open, February 2023, BMJ

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  17. Public values and plurality in health priority setting: What to do when people disagree and why we should care about reasons as well as choices

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, May 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  18. Microcredit as a public health initiative? Exploring mechanisms and pathways to health and wellbeing

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, February 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  19. Walking a Tightrope: Using Financial Diaries to Investigate Day-to-Day Financial Decisions and the Social Safety Net of the Financially Excluded

    Article • The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, May 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  20. Exploring the relative value of end of life QALYs: Are the comparators important?

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, November 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  21. Microcredit for enterprise in the UK as an ‘alternative’ economic space

    Article • Geoforum, March 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  22. Who knows best? A Q methodology study to explore perspectives of professional stakeholders and community participants on health in low-income communities

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  23. Filling a void? The role of social enterprise in addressing social isolation and loneliness in rural communities

    Article • Journal of Rural Studies, January 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  24. Innovating on Methods to Understand the Relationship Between Finances and Wellbeing

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  25. Two false positives do not make a right: Setting the bar of social enterprise research even higher through avoiding the straw man fallacy

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, November 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  26. Self reliant groups from India to Scotland: lessons from south to north

    Article • Community Development Journal, August 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  27. Are life-extending treatments for terminal illnesses a special case? Exploring choices and societal viewpoints

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, February 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  28. Is “end of life” a special case? Connecting Q with survey methods to measure societal support for views on the value of life-extending treatments

    Article • Health Economics, January 2018, Wiley

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  29. Universal health coverage, priority setting, and the human right to health

    Article • The Lancet, August 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  30. Health and Brexit

    Article • Health Economics, July 2017, Wiley

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  31. ‘Hidden Habitus’: A Qualitative Study of Socio-Ecological Influences on Drinking Practices and Social Identity in Mid-Adolescence

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, June 2017, MDPI AG

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker, Professor Eileen Kaner

  32. Marketing Authorization Procedures for Advanced Cancer Drugs

    Article • Medical Decision Making, February 2017, SAGE Publications

    Christel Protière, Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  33. Conceptualising the public health role of actors operating outside of formal health systems: The case of social enterprise

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, January 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  34. Priority to End of Life Treatments? Views of the Public in the Netherlands

    Article • Value in Health, January 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  35. From representing views to representativeness of views: Illustrating a new (Q2S) approach in the context of health care priority setting in nine European countries

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, October 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  36. Extending life for people with a terminal illness: a moral right and an expensive death? Exploring societal perspectives

    Article • BMC Medical Ethics, March 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  37. Public views on principles for health care priority setting: Findings of a European cross-country study using Q methodology

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, February 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  38. Health Care Priority Setting Q-Sort

    Article • January 2015, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  39. The potential of social enterprise to enhance health and well-being: A model and systematic review

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, December 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  40. Autonomy, special offers and routines: a Q methodological study of industry-driven marketing influences on young people's drinking behaviour

    Article • Addiction, July 2014, Wiley

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker, Professor Eileen Kaner

  41. Valuing QALYs at the end of life

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, July 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  42. Did people “buy” what was “sold”? A qualitative evaluation of a contingent valuation survey information set for gains in life expectancy

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  43. Comparing WTP Values of Different Types of QALY Gain Elicited from the General Public

    Article • Health Economics, December 2013, Wiley

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  44. Estimating a WTP-based value of a QALY: The ‘chained’ approach

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, September 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  45. A Person Trade-Off Study to Estimate Age-Related Weights for Health Gains in Economic Evaluation

    Article • PharmacoEconomics, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  46. Q-ING FOR HEALTH-A NEW APPROACH TO ELICITING THE PUBLIC'S VIEWS ON HEALTH CARE RESOURCE ALLOCATION

    Article • Health Economics, May 2013, Wiley

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  47. Social enterprise: New pathways to health and well-being?

    Article • Journal of Public Health Policy, November 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  48. Searchers vs surveyors in estimating the monetary value of a QALY: resolving a nasty dilemma for NICE

    Article • Health Economics Policy and Law, August 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  49. Social business, health and well-being

    Article • Social Business, April 2011, Westburn Publishers

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  50. Understanding public preferences for prioritizing health care interventions in England: Does the type of health gain matter?

    Article • Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, April 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  51. Deriving distributional weights for QALYs through discrete choice experiments

    Article • Journal of Health Economics, March 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  52. The social value of a QALY: raising the bar or barring the raise?

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  53. Estimating the additional cost of disability: Beyond budget standards

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, November 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  54. Weighting and valuing quality-adjusted life-years using stated preference methods: preliminary results from the Social Value of a QALY Project

    Article • Health Technology Assessment, May 2010, National Institute for Health Research

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  55. ‘I’ve just taken you to see the man with the CD on his head’: the experience and management of recurrent sore throat in children

    Article • Journal of Child Health Care, February 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  56. What needs to be done in contingent valuation: have Smith and Sach missed the boat?

    Article • Health Economics Policy and Law, January 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  57. Valuing lives equally in a benefit-coast analysis of safety projects: A method to reconcile theory and practice

    Article • Safety Science, July 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  58. Willingness to pay for a QALY: past, present and future

    Article • Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research, December 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  59. How do respondents explain WTP responses? A review of the qualitative evidence

    Article • The Journal of Socio-Economics, August 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  60. Valuing lives equally: Defensible premise or unwarranted compromise?

    Article • Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, February 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  61. The New Myth

    Article • PharmacoEconomics, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  62. A Face-Validity Test of Response Strategies to ‘Dread Risks'

    Article • Revue d économie politique, October 2007, CAIRN

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  63. Economic rationality and health and lifestyle choices for people with diabetes

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, November 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  64. Explaining variation in GP referral rates for x-rays for back pain

    Article • Implementation Science, August 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  65. Q methodology in health economics

    Article • Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, January 2006, SAGE Publications

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  66. Guiding the design and selection of interventions to influence the implementation of evidence-based practice: an experimental simulation of a complex intervention trial

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, May 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  67. Issues arising from the use of qualitative methods in health economics

    Article • Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, July 2004, SAGE Publications

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  68. Responses to standard gambles: are preferences‘well constructed’?

    Article • Health Economics, January 2004, Wiley

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker

  69. Effects of Treatment with Formoterol on Bronchoprotection against Methacholine

    Article • The American Journal of Medicine, May 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Rachel Mairi Baker