Title: Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of counselling in health care /
Authors: Tolley, Keith; Rowland, Nancy, 1954-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Health counseling; Cost effectiveness; Counseling economics; Cost-Benefit Analysis economics; Quality Assurance, Health Care economics
Abstract: Written jointly by a counsellor and an economist, the book is intended to help counsellors and service providers carry out simple cost-effectiveness analysis in their own setting, with a good understanding of the purposes, methods and limitations of the tools they are using. Practical and informative, Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Counselling in Health Care will be useful to all those who currently provide or are considering the development of a counselling service.
Contents: 1. The economic evaluation of counselling -- 2. Economics, ethics and counselling -- 3. The main types of economic evaluation -- 4. The components of an economic evaluation: cost-effectiveness analysis -- 5. The cost-effectiveness of counselling: reviewing the evidence -- 6. Pre-analysis stage: problem definition, objectives and options -- 7. Data collection I: study design -- 8. Data collection II: cost measurement -- 9. Data collection III: outcome measurement -- 10. Analysing cost-effectiveness data -- 11. Counselling case studies.