Making choices in health : WHO guide to cost-effectiveness analysis / [edited by] T. Tan-Torres Edejer ... [et al.].
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TextPublication details: Geneva : World Health Organization, c2003.Description: xiii, 312, [8] p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9789241546010
- Medical care -- Cost effectiveness
- Cost of Medical care -- Evaluation
- Outcome assessment (Medical care)
- Cost-Benefit Analysis -- methods
- Health Planning -- methods
- Health Care Rationing -- economics
- Health Priorities -- economics
- Policy Making
- Decision Support Techniques
- Econometric Models
- Health Care Costs
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part One: METHODS FOR GENERALIZED COST-EFFECTIVENESS --
Ch. 1. What is generalized cost-effectiveness analysis? --
Ch. 2. Undertaking a study using GCEA --
Ch. 3. Estimating costs --
Ch. 4. Estimating health effects --
Ch. 5. Discounting --
Ch. 6. Uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis --
Ch. 7. Policy uses of generalized CEA --
Ch. 8. Reporting CEA results --
Ch. 9. Summary of recommendations --
Annex A. WHO-CHOICE activities on generalized cost-effectiveness analysis --
Annex B. Draft list of intervention clusters for evaluation by WHO-CHOICE --
Annex C. An illustration of the types of costs included in a selection of intervention activities at central levels --
Annex D. Interpreting international dollars --
Annex E. DALYs to measure burden of dollars --
Annex F. Measuring intervention benefit at the population level --
Annex G. Epidemiological subregions as applied in WHO generalized CEA --
Part Two: BACKGROUND PAPERS AND APPLICATIONS --
Ch. 1. Development of WHO guidelines on generalized cost-effectiveness analysis --
Ch. 2. PopMod: a longitudinal population model with two interacting disease states --
Ch. 3. Programme costs in the economic evaluation of health interventions --
Ch. 4. Econometric estimation of country-specific hospital costs --
Ch. 5. Stochastic league tables: communicating cost-effectiveness results to decision-makers --
Ch. 6. Uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis: probabilistic uncertainty analysis and stochastic league tables --
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 --
Ch. 8. Generalized cost-effectiveness analysis: an aid to decision making in health --
Ch. 9. Ethical issues in the use of cost effectiveness analysis for the prioritization of health care resources.
The main objective of this book is to provide policy-makers and researchers with a clear understanding of the concepts and beefits of GCEA. It provides guidance on how to undertake studies using this form of analysis and how to interpret the results. The main focus is on those methodological issues which make GCEA different from traditional CEA, such as the definition of the controversial for analysis.
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