Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Program Evaluation

Mark S. Thompson and Eric E. Fortess
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Mark S. Thompson: Harvard School of Public Health
Eric E. Fortess: Harvard School of Public Health

Evaluation Review, 1980, vol. 4, issue 4, 549-568

Abstract: The growing demand for prospective evaluation enhances the popularity of cost-effective ness analysis, a technique for identifying best uses of scarce resources. Defined in diverse ways during its short history, cost-effectiveness analysis is now seen as the evaluative comparison of monetary and nonmonetary dimensions of impact. The cost-effectiveness ratio for health programs divides monetary effects by health effects. Decisions on com peting alternative programs should be resolved by regarding cost-effectiveness ratios on the differences between programs.

Date: 1980
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