Towards Investment in Public Health: The Emergence of a Burden of Economic Proof

Richard J. Fordham

Chapter 13 in Future Public Health, 2009, pp 265-275 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The Wanless Report (2002) called for evidence-based policy in public health and warned that without an economic evaluation evidence base, investment in public health would be hard to justify. In fact, depending on the definition of public health used there have been a considerable number of economic evaluations of these interventions to date, albeit in different countries and across a wide variety of programmes and using varying economic evaluation techniques. Although no simple evaluation framework exists, the consistent message is that many public health programmes can be cost-effective and affordable at currently accepted international thresholds.

Keywords: Economic Evaluation; Public Health Intervention; Public Health Programme; Workplace Health; Workplace Health Promotion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230582545_14

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