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Considerations in applying benefit-cost analysis : to preventive interventions for children, youth, and families : workshop summary / Steve Olson and Kimber Bogard, rapporteurs ; Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council of the National Academies.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- Considerations in Applying Benefit-Cost Analysis to Preventive Interventions for Children, Youth, and Families (Workshop), Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- Considerations in Applying Benefit-Cost Analysis to Preventive Interventions for Children, Youth, and Families (Workshop) (2013 : Washington, District of Columbia)
- Considerations in Applying Benefit-Cost Analysis to Preventive Interventions for Children, Youth, and Families (Workshop)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Family services--United States--Cost effectiveness--Congresses.
- Family services.
- Family services--United States--Evaluation--Congresses.
- Cost effectiveness--Methodology--Congresses.
- Cost effectiveness.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (83 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Benefit-cost analyses hold great promise for influencing policies related to children, youth, and families. By comparing the costs of preventive interventions with the long-term benefits of those interventions, benefit-cost analysis provides a tool for determining what kinds of investments have the greatest potential to reduce the physical, mental, and behavioral health problems of young people. More generally, the growth of benefit-cost analysis as a field of research and practice represents an exciting and promising trend in the development and implementation of public policies. [...] This report discusses a wide range of issues about benefit-cost analysis, including the level of research rigor that should be met before results from an evaluation are used to estimate or predict outcomes in a cost-benefit analysis; best practices and methodologies for costing prevention interventions; prevention outcomes that currently lend themselves to monetization; processes and methodologies that should be used when linking prevention outcomes to avoided costs or increased revenues; and best methods for handling risk and uncertainty in estimates."--Publisher's description
- Contents:
- Introduction and themes of the workshop
- Benefit-cost analyses : examples from the field
- Assessing the costs and benefits of interventions
- Issues to consider in benefit-cost analysis
- Translating results to inform policy and practice.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-309-30108-4
- 0-309-30106-8
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