Making choices in health
Subtitle: WHO guide to cost-effectiveness analysis
By: edited by T. Tan-Torres Edejer ... [et al.].
Contributors: Edejer, Tessa Tan-Torres.; World Health Organization.
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Geneva
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Medical care -- Cost effectiveness.; Medical care, Cost of -- Evaluation.; Outcome assessment (Medical care); Cost-Benefit Analysis -- methods.; Health Planning -- methods.; Health Care Rationing -- economics.; Health Priorities -- economics.; Policy Making.; Decision Support Techniques.; Models, Econometric.; Health Care Costs.
Other titles: WHO guide to cost-effectiveness analysis
Description: Several guidelines on cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) already exist. There are two reasons for producing another set. The first is that traditional or "incremental" CEA ignores the question of whether the current mix of interventions represents an efficient use of resources. Secondly, the resources required to evaluate the large number of interventions required to use CEA to identify opportunities to enhance efficiency are prohibitive. The approach of Generalized CEA proposed in this Guide seeks to provide analysts with a method of assessing whether the current as well as proposed mix of interventions is efficient. It also seeks to maximize the generalizability of results across settings.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One: METHODS FOR GENERALIZED COST-EFFECTIVENESS; title: Ch. 1. What is generalized cost-effectiveness analysis?; title: Ch. 2. Undertaking a study using GCEA; title: Ch. 3. Estimating costs; title: Ch. 4. Estimating health effects; title: Ch. 5. Discounting; title: Ch. 6. Uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis; title: Ch. 7. Policy uses of generalized CEA; title: Ch. 8. Reporting CEA results; title: Ch. 9. Summary of recommendations; title: Annex A. WHO-CHOICE activities on generalized cost-effectiveness analysis; title: Annex B. Draft list of intervention clusters for evaluation by WHO-CHOICE; title: Annex C. An illustration of the types of costs included in a selection of intervention activities at central levels; title: Annex D. Interpreting international dollars; title: Annex E. DALYs to measure burden of dollars; title: Annex F. Measuring intervention benefit at the population level; title: Annex G. Epidemiological subregions as applied in WHO generalized CEA; title: Part Two: BACKGROUND PAPERS AND APPLICATIONS; title: Ch. 1. Development of WHO guidelines on generalized cost-effectiveness analysis; title: Ch. 2. PopMod: a longitudinal population model with two interacting disease states; title: Ch. 3. Programme costs in the economic evaluation of health interventions; title: Ch. 4. Econometric estimation of country-specific hospital costs; title: Ch. 5. Stochastic league tables: communicating cost-effectiveness results to decision-makers; title: Ch. 6. Uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis: probabilistic uncertainty analysis and stochastic league tables; title: Ch. 7. Effectiveness and costs of interventions to lower systolic blood pressure and cholesterol: a global and regional analysis on reduction of cardiovascular-disease risk; title: Ch. 8. Generalized cost-effectiveness analysis: an aid to decision making in health; title: Ch. 9. Ethical issues in the use of cost effectiveness analysis for the prioritization of health care resources.