Background: In the UK and internationally there is widespread acceptance of the value of
economic evaluations to inform decisions about health care interventions. The general …

Beyond health care, the economic evaluation of social welfare programmes is rare but the
demand for such evaluation is rising. To encourage greater use of economic evaluation …

Abstract Background If Public Health is the science and art of how society collectively aims
to improve health, and reduce inequalities in health, then Public Health Economics is the …

In Australia, as in many other countries, economic evaluation is increasingly seen by health
care policy makers as a useful aid to priority setting and resource allocation. In Australia …

Although economic evaluation in health care has a long-standing tradition in the United
Kingdom, very little is known about its impact on decision making, particularly following the …

Objectives The impact of economic evaluation studies on health‐care decision makers has
been shown to be rather limited. However, there is an increasing requirement for the cost …

Health economic evaluation aims at providing information on the efficiency of interventions.
Since the 1980s, there have been major developments in the field, especially in terms of …

Health economic evaluations are comparative analyses of alternative courses of action in
terms of their costs and consequences. The Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation …

Resources for healthcare are scarce, so choices need to be made about how to get the best
possible health outcomes given the available resources. Economic evaluation is often …

The term 'perspective'in the context of economic evaluations and costing studies in
healthcare refers to the viewpoint that an analyst has adopted to define the types of costs …