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March 01, 2002
Health Economics: An Introduction to Economic Evaluation 2nd Edition
Author: Gisela Kobelt
ISBN: 1 899040 22 6
Publisher: Office for Health Economics
Price: £5
This update of Gisela Kobelt's "green guide" provides an accessible and practical introduction to the principles behind economic analysis and a step by step guide to the methods used when undertaking economic evaluations of health care interventions.
This book is aimed at those without an in-depth knowledge of the topic but who are actively involved in generating economic data or who are users of the results of economic evaluations. The emphasis is on the use of econonmic analysis as a tool to aid decision making and the relevant techniques are illustrated throughout with detailed examples of their application.
This second edition updates the first published in 1994, adding new material and further examples to introduce the reader to the key developments in methodology that have taken place in more recent years.
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Topics covered are:
- The policy context for economic evaluation
- Components and types of economic evaluation
- Categorisation and measurement of resource use
- Valuation of direct and indirect (productivity) costs
- Health-related quality of life measurement
- Valuation of health effects using utility or monetary measures
- Data synthesis using decision trees
- Markov models
- Dealing with uncertainty
- Guidelines for economic evaluation
