The economics of prenatal screening

Joe Callan

No 042chedp, Working Papers from Centre for Health Economics, University of York

Abstract: Ethical issues must take first place in the evaluation of a prenatal screening programme. The economic issues are less weighty but will be important in the decision as to whether a particular programme is introduced. This paper presents a critique of the published economic studies of screening and seeks to establish the proper place for economic arguments, in an overall appraisal. It criticises the calculation of a summary “ecomomie benefit” and proposes other methods for the presentation of economic information. An appendix gives separate critical summaries of twelve published studies.

Keywords: prenatal; screening (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 60 pages
Date: 1988
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