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