Economic evaluation / Julia Fox-Rushby and John Cairns (editors).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fox-Rushby, Julia A.

Cairns, John.

Series:

Understanding public health.

Understanding public health

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical economics.

Medical care--Evaluation.

Medical care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Maidenhead ; New York : Open University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

section 1. The structure of economic evaluation

section 2. Measuring and valuing resource use

section 3. Measuring and valuing consequences

section 4. Presenting and interpreting the evidence

section 5. Appraising the quality and usefulness of economic evaluation.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-95368-3

9786610953684

0-335-22506-3

OCLC:

567976251