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Economic Evaluation

Paperback Engels 2005 9780335218479
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There are so many ways in which health might be improved today and, as technology improves, the opportunities will increase. However, there are limits to budgets as well as other resources so choices have to be made about what to spend money and time on. Economic evaluation can help set out the value of the costs and benefits from competing choices.

This book examines how to undertake economic evaluation of health care interventions in low, middle and high income countries. It covers: Ways in which economic evaluations might be structured Approaches to measuring and valuing costs and effects Interpreting and presenting evidenceAppraising the quality and usefulness of economic evaluations

Series Editors: Rosalind Plowman and Nicki Thorogood.

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ISBN13:9780335218479
Taal:Engels
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Overview of the book <p>SECTION 1: THE STRUCTURE OF ECONOMIC EVALUATION <br>Chapter 1: Efficiency and economic evaluation<br>Chapter 2: Framing an economic evaluation<br>Chapter 3: The role of decision analysis in economic evaluation<br>Chapter 4: Introduction to economic modelling<br>Chapter 5: Introduction to Markov modelling<p>SECTION 2: MEASURING AND VALUING RESOURCE USE<br>Chapter 6: Cost of health services<br>Chapter 7: Valuation of non-health service resources<p>SECTION 3: MEASURING AND VALUING CONSEQUENCES<br>Chapter 8: Approaches to measuring health and life<br>Chapter 9: Valuing changes in health using non-monetary approaches<br>Chapter 10: Monetary valuation of health and non-health consequences<br>Chapter 11: Issues concerning equity in the valuation of outcomes<br>Chapter 12: Discounting<p>SECTION 4:PRESENTING AND INTERPRETING THE EVIDENCE<br>Chapter 13: Interpreting incremental cost-effectiveness ratios<br>Chapter 14: Basic sensitivity analysis<br>Chapter 15: Probabilistic sensitivity analysis<br>Chapter 16: Guidelines for Economic Evaluation<p>SECTION 5: APPRAISING THE QUALITY AND USEFULNESS OF ECONOMIC EVALUATION<br>Chapter 17: Critical appraisal of an economic evaluation<br>Chapter 18: Transferring cost-effectiveness data across space and time<br>Chapter 19: Use of economic evaluation in practice and policy<br>Chapter 20: Critique of economic evaluation<p>Glossary<br>Index

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