Making choices in health : WHO guide to cost-effectiveness analysis /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	World Health Organization, NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Edejer, Tessa Tan-Torres
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Geneva : World Health Organization, [2003]
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. Soins médicaux > Coût-efficacité. Soins médicaux > Coût > Évaluation. Évaluation des résultats (Soins médicaux) Atención Medica > Analisis de Costos. Costos de la Atención en Salud > Evaluación. Planificación en salud > Técnica. Prioridades en Salud > economica. MODELOS ECONOMETRICOS. COSTOS DE LA ATENCION EN SALUD. Guideline. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

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.