Making choices in health WHO guide to cost-effectiveness analysis / edited by T. Tan-Torres Edejer ... [et al.].
| Other author | Edejer, Tessa Tan-Torres. |
| Other author | World Health Organization. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Geneva : World Health Organization, |
| Description | xiii, 312, [8] p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 CD card (2 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.) |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | WHO guide to cost-effectiveness analysis |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2004456821 |
| ISBN | 9241546018 |