To accompany the hugely sccessful 'Methods for Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes 2e', this book is a thorough and rigorous discussion of the methodological principles and recent advances in the rapidly advancing field of theory and practice of economic evaluation in health care. Written by an internationally acclaimed group of authors, the book provides an in-depth discussion of the latest theoretical advances and gives comprehensive reviews of the available literature. The book covers the main areas of economic evaluation, including the methods for measuring costs and outcomes, the collection of data alongside clinical studies, ways of handling
uncertainty, discounting and issues relating to the transferability of economic data.
It is an ideal book for those studying economic evaluation on postgraduate or professional courses in health economics or public health.
Features
- Internationally renowned authorship
- Up-to-date treatment of the main theoretical areas
- Extensive literature review
- Many examples
- Complementary to 'Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes' (Drummond, O'Brien, Stottart & Torrance)
- Ideal for postgraduate or professional courses
1Theoretical concepts in the economic evaluation of health care
2Welfare economics and economic evaluation
3Output measures and valuation in health
4Costing in economic evaluation
5The role and estimation of productivity costs in economic evaluation
6Trial-based economic evaluations: an overview of design and analysis
7Modelling in economic evaluation
8Handling uncertainty in economic evaluation
9Statistical considerations in analyzing health care resource utilisation and cost data
10Discounting in economic evaluation
11Transferability of economic evaluation results
Students on courses in health economics and public health medicine; Researchers in Economic evaluation; Health care professionals with an interest in economic evaluation
