Applied health economics for public health practice and research / edited by Rhiannon T. Edwards and Emma McIntosh.
| Other author | Edwards, Rhiannon Tudor, editor. |
| Other author | McIntosh, Emma, editor. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019. |
| Description | 1 online resource (xviii, 381 pages) : illustrations. |
| Supplemental Content | Direct link to ebook |
| Subjects |
| Series | Handbooks in health economic evaluation series Handbooks in health economic evaluation series. ^A1027043 |
| Contents | Cover; Series; Applied Health Economics for Public Health Practice and Research; Copyright; Contents; List of abbreviations; Title and editors; List of contributors; 1 Introduction to public health and public health economics; 2 The supply and demand of preventive goods and services and the need for economic evaluation; 3 Applying methods of economic evaluation to public health: Contemporary solutions to traditional challenges; 4 Synthesizing evidence for economic evaluations of public health interventions; 5 Identification, measurement, and valuation of resource use in economic evaluations of public health interventions6 Identifying, measuring, and valuing outcomes within economic evaluations of public health interventions; 7 Cost-​effectiveness analysis of public health interventions; 8 Cost-​utility analysis of public health interventions; 9 Cost-​benefit analysis for applied public health economic evaluation; 10 Cost-​consequence analysis of public health interventions; 11 The use of modelling approaches for the economic evaluation of public health interventions; 12 Return on investment, social return on investment, and the business case for prevention13 The role of multi-​criteria decision analysis (MCDA) in public health economic evaluation; 14 To disinvest or invest? The role of programme budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA) for economic evaluation and prioritization between public health interventions; 15 International perspectives and future directions for research and policy; Index. |
| Summary | This text presents current thinking on health economics methodology and application to the evaluation of public health interventions. It covers the history of economics of public health and the economic rationale for government investment in prevention, principles of health economics, evidence synthesis, and more. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed August 6, 2019). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Applied health economics for public health practice and research. First edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019 0198737483 |
| ISBN | 9780191057229 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0191057223 (electronic bk.) |
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