Making choices in health : WHO guide to cost-effectiveness analysis

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Edejer, Tessa Tan-Torres (Editor )
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Geneva : World Health Organization, ©2003
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part One: METHODS FOR GENERALIZED COST-EFFECTIVENESS
  • Ch. 1. What is generalized cost-effectiveness analysis?
  • Ch. 2. Undertaking a study using GCEA
  • Ch. 3. Estimating costs
  • Ch. 4. Estimating health effects
  • Ch. 5. Discounting
  • Ch. 6. Uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis
  • Ch. 7. Policy uses of generalized CEA
  • Ch. 8. Reporting CEA results
  • Ch. 9. Summary of recommendations
  • Annex A. WHO-CHOICE activities on generalized cost-effectiveness analysis
  • Annex B. Draft list of intervention clusters for evaluation by WHO-CHOICE
  • Annex C. An illustration of the types of costs included in a selection of intervention activities at central levels
  • Annex D. Interpreting international dollars
  • Annex E. DALYs to measure burden of dollars
  • Annex F. Measuring intervention benefit at the population level
  • Annex G. Epidemiological subregions as applied in WHO generalized CEA
  • Part Two: BACKGROUND PAPERS AND APPLICATIONS
  • Ch. 1. Development of WHO guidelines on generalized cost-effectiveness analysis
  • Ch. 2. PopMod: a longitudinal population model with two interacting disease states
  • Ch. 3. Programme costs in the economic evaluation of health interventions
  • Ch. 4. Econometric estimation of country-specific hospital costs
  • Ch. 5. Stochastic league tables: communicating cost-effectiveness results to decision-makers
  • Ch. 6. Uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis: probabilistic uncertainty analysis and stochastic league tables
  • Ch. 7. Effectiveness and costs of interventions to lower systolic blood pressure and cholesterol: a global and regional analysis on reduction of cardiovascular-disease risk
  • Ch. 8. Generalized cost-effectiveness analysis: an aid to decision making in health
  • Ch. 9. Ethical issues in the use of cost effectiveness analysis for the prioritization of health care resources.