Economic Evaluation
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
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.