Toward Development of a New Health Economic Evaluation Definition

Alexei Botchkarev ()
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Alexei Botchkarev: Health System Information Management and Investment Division, Ontario, Canada

Journal of Economics Bibliography, 2016, vol. 3, issue 4, 590-601

Abstract: Economic evaluation (EE) is a dynamically advancing knowledge area of health economics. It has been conceived to provide evidence for allocating scarce resources to gain the best value for money. The problem of efficiency of investments becomes even more crucial with advances in modern medicine and public health which bring about both improved patient outcomes and higher costs. Despite the abundance of literature on the EE concepts, some key notions including the definition of the health economic evaluation remain open for discussion. Academic literature offers a large number and growing variety of EE definitions. It testifies to the fact that existing definitions do not meet economists’ requirements. The aim of this study was to examineexisting definitions and reveal their common features.

Keywords: Economic evaluation; Health care; Definition; Evidence-informed policy; Health technology assessment; Health economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D61 I10 I11 I18 O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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