Economic Evaluation In Health Care Merging Theory With Practice

This title is an up-to-date treatment of the main theoretical areas of economic evaluation in health-care. The text is aimed at primary markets for example, students on courses in health economics and public health medicine; researchers; and health care professionals.



To accompany the hugely sccessful 'Methods for Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes 2e', this book is a thorough and rigorous discussion of the methodological principles and recent advances in the rapidly advancing field of theory and practice of economic evaluation in health care. Written by an internationally acclaimed group of authors, the book provides an in-depth discussion of the latest theoretical advances and gives comprehensive reviews of the available literature. The book covers the main areas of economic evaluation, including the methods for measuring costs and outcomes, the collection of data alongside clinical studies, ways of handling uncertainty, discounting and issues relating to the transferability of economic data.