Talk:Cost-effectiveness analysis

message: Regardless of the true value of human life, I question whether the following statement is even meaningful:
In health economics a figure of US$50000 per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) is often suggested as the upper limit of an acceptable ICER.
The ICER is a ratio of cost to benefit.  As such, it is a unitless measure.  US$50000, on the other hand has the units that you would normally expect in a cost or a benefit.
I think the author intended to say this:
Decisions regarding whether to do something vs. not do that thing depend on the ICER of doing it.  If the ICER is less than one, then it makes sense to do it, but not otherwise.  If the benefit is very large, then the ICER may still be less than one even if the cost is also large.  For this reason, a proponent of a particular course of action might be motivated to frabricate an excessively large benefit in order to justify high costs and still end up with an ICER less than one.  To prevent execessive valuation of benefits, it is reasonable to suggest upper limits to the dollar value of benefits that are hard to quantify.  In health economics a figure of US$50000 per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) is often suggested as an acceptable upper limit of the benefit of human life for use in calculating ICER.  
As you can see from my efforts to correct the statement, the whole thing got quickly out of hand.  One reasonable way to handle this is to simply blow away all the incendiary comments about human life, which are not particularly relevant to a generic discussion of cost-benefit ratios.  But that would leave this stub pretty much devoid of content.  Another approach would be to invent another example; one a little more mundane, perhaps, but one that would serve as a better illustration of the topic.
Thoughts, anyone?
--GraemeMcRae 22:22, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Value of Human Life

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message: Am going to remove the section on CEA in environmental economics - this is a reference to cost-effective measures which is quite different to cost-effectiveNESS analysis. This belongs in another article - probably in the article on the Rio declaration. I've copied it here in case anyone disagrees and wishes to put it back, or put it elsewhere.
"CEA in environmental economics
In environmental terms, "cost-effective measures" allude to various (mostly industrial) attempts to prevent environmental degradation as written in principle 15 of the Rio declaration of the Earth Summit conference 1992."
OceanKiwi (talk) 12:11, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Removing "cost effective" measures section

message: * CEA results (cost-effectiveness data) are confronted with ethical analysis at a management level.  MaynardClark (talk) 17:19, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Issues in cost-effectiveness analysis

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Consensus to not move. (non-admin closure)  — YoungForever(talk)  16:41, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Cost-effectiveness analysis →  – The regular dash in the name should be substituted with an en dash since it is used "to connect symmetric items", see Dash#En_dash. Also see the related article Cost–utility analysis where the article title already is correctly using the en dash. Lymoz (talk) 16:30, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 21 October 2020 

message: Factors of production 41.116.129.16 (talk) 13:44, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Economic and management science