Applied methods of cost-benefit analysis in health care

This book provides a comprehensive set of instructions and examples of how toperform a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of a health intervention, with a particular focus on the use of stated preference survey methods to identify consumerpreference data and the use of recent developments in cost-effectiveness analysis within a CBA framework. INDICE: Series preface; Contributors; Web resources; Acknowledgements; 1: Emma McIntosh: Introduction; 2: Philip Clarke: Methods for evaluating health and healthcare - underlying theory and implications for practical application; 3: Emma McIntosh: Shadow pricing in healthcare cost benefit analyses; 4: Emma McIntosh: Costing methodology for applied cost-benefit analysis in healthcare; 5: F. Reed Johnson and W.L. (Vic) Adamowicz: Valuation and cost-benefit analysis in health and environmental economics; 6: Emma Frew: Benefit assessmentfor CBA studies in healthcare using CV methods; 7: Emma Frew: Benefit assessment for CBA studies in healthcare: A guide to carrying out a stated preferencewillingness to pay survey in healthcare; 8: Emma McIntosh, Alastair Gray, Mathias Haefeli, Achim Elfering, Atul Sukthankar and Norbert Boos: Applied cost-benefit analysis in healthcare: An empirical application in spinal surgery; 9: Philip Clarke: Using revealed preference methods to value healthcare - the travel cost approach; 10: Richard Carson and Jordan Louviere: Experimental designand the estimation of willingness to pay in choice experiments for health policy evaluation; 11: Jordan Louviere and Denzil G. Fiebig: Benefit assessment for CBA studies in health care using discrete choice experiments: Estimating welfare in a health care setting; 12: Emma McIntosh: A practical guide to reporting and presenting stated preference discrete choice experiment results in CBAstudies in healthcare; 13: Emma McIntosh, W.L. (Vic) Adamowicz and F. Reed Johnson: The relevance of cost-benefit analysis in healthcare: concluding comments

• ISBN: 978-0-19-923712-8
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 24/06/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés