Julia Fox-Rushby, John Cairns
(Brunel University, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

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About the book

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 Appraising the quality and usefulness of economic evaluations

About the authors

Julia Fox-Rushby is Professor of Health Economics at Brunel University. John Cairns is Director of the Economic Evaluation Programme (HERU), University of Aberdeen.

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