Applied methods of cost-benefit analysis in health care

• Other Authors: McIntosh, Emma (Editor), Clarke, Philip (Editor), Frew, Emma (Editor), Louviere, Jordan (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2010
• Series: Handbooks in health economic evaluation series
• Subjects: Cost-Benefit Analysis > methods; Quality of Health Care > economics
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This book provides the reader with a comprehensive set of instructions and examples of how to perform a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of a health intervention. Developed out of a course run by Jordan Louviere at the University of Technology, Sydney, entitled An Introduction to Stated Preference Discre...

Table of Contents:

• Methods for evaluating health and health care : underlying theory and implications for practical application / Philip Clarke
• Shadow pricing in health care cost benefit analyses / Emma McIntosh
• Costing methodology for applied cost-benefit analysis in health care / Emma McIntosh
• Valuation and cost-benefit analysis in health and environmental economics / F. Reed Johnson and W.L. (Vic) Adamowicz
• Benefit assessment for CBA studies in health care using CV methods / Emma Frew
• Benefit assessment for CBA studies in health care : a guide to carrying out a stated preference willingness to pay survey in health care / Emma Frew
• Applied cost-benefit analysis in health care : an empirical application in spinal surgery / Emma McIntosh ... [et al.]
• Using revealed preference methods to value health care : the travel cost approach / Philip Clarke
• Experimental design and the estimation of willingness to pay in choice experiments for health policy evaluation / Richard Carson and Jordan Louviere
• Benefit assessment for CBA studies in health care using discrete choice experiments : estimating welfare in a health care setting / Jordan Louviere and Denzil G. Fiebig
• A practical guide to reporting and presenting stated preference discrete choice experiment results in CBA studies in health care / Emma McIntosh
• The relevance of cost-benefit analysis in health care : concluding comments / Emma McIntosh, W.L. (Vic) Adamovicz, and F. Reed Johnson.