Health service efficiency: Appraising the appraisers--A critical review of economic appraisal in practice

C.A. Blades, Anthony Culyer and A. Walker

Social Science & Medicine, 1987, vol. 25, issue 5, 461-472

Abstract: This paper provides a critical appraisal of the application of economic evaluative techniques to problems of health service efficiency. Focusing largely on the British literature, it selects some recurring issues, comments on them from a theoretical point of view, and illustrates them with examples of good and bad practice.

Keywords: cost-benefit; analysis; cost-effectiveness; analysis; investment; appraisal; option; appraisal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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