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Economic Evaluation (Understanding Public Health)

By John Cairns , Julia Fox-Rushby

Book information

Publisher
Open University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0335218474, 9780335218479, 9780335225064
Google Books ID
ntoCIMZgPAYC
Open Library ID
OL18255588M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1637013 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
262\262
Topic
Economy
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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 evidence; and, appraising the quality and usefulness of economic evaluations.

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