Cost–Benefit Analysis and Health Care Evaluations, Second Edition

Robert Brent

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Abstract: Cost–benefit analysis is the only method of economic evaluation that can effectively indicate whether a health care treatment or intervention is worthwhile. In this thoroughly updated and revised second edition, Robert Brent expands the scope of the field by including the latest concepts and applications throughout all regions of the world. This book attempts to strengthen the link between cost–benefit analysis and the mainstream health care evaluation field, which is dominated by non-economists. The need to build a bridge between the two is more important than ever before, as the general understanding of cost-benefit analysis appears to have regressed.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Environment; Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
ISBN: 9781781004586
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction to health care evaluation , pp 3-28

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Ch 2 Cost minimization and the definition of ‘cost’ , pp 31-60

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Ch 3 Types of costs and their measurement , pp 61-87

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Ch 4 External costs , pp 88-114

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Ch 5 Social cost of taxation , pp 115-146

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Ch 6 Fundamentals of cost-effectiveness analysis , pp 149-179

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Ch 7 Further issues of cost-effectiveness analysis , pp 180-214

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Ch 8 Fundamentals of cost–utility analysis , pp 217-246

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Ch 9 Measuring utilities in cost–utility analysis , pp 247-280

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Ch 10 Cost–utility analysis and equity , pp 281-310

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Ch 11 Cost–benefit analysis and the human capital approach , pp 313-339

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Ch 12 Cost–benefit analysis and willingness to pay , pp 340-373

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Ch 13 Cost–benefit analysis and equity , pp 374-406

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Ch 14 Methods for measuring the benefits of HIV/AIDS interventions , pp 409-444

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