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Theory and Methods of Economic Evaluation of Health Care

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  1. Magnus Johannesson

    1. Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

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Part of the book series: Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy (HEPP, volume 4)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Magnus Johannesson
    Pages 1-6

  3. Welfare Economics

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    Pages 7-24

  4. The Monetary Value of Health Changes

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    Pages 25-45

  5. The Resource Consequences of Health Changes

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    Pages 47-64

  6. The Revealed Preference Approach

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    Pages 65-74

  7. The Expressed Preference Approach

    • Magnus Johannesson
    Pages 75-100

  8. The Estimation of Costs

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    Pages 101-125

  9. Additional Issues in Cost-Benefit Analysis

    • Magnus Johannesson
    Pages 127-134

  10. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

    • Magnus Johannesson
    Pages 135-172

  11. Cost-Utility Analysis

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    Pages 173-220

  12. Economic Evaluation and Policy Making

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    Pages 221-236

  13. Concluding Remarks

    • Magnus Johannesson
    Pages 237-240

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 241-247
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About this book

Most economic evaluations of health care programmes at the moment are cost­ effectiveness and cost-utility analyses. The problem with these methods is that their theoretical foundations are unclear. This has led to confusion about how to define the costs and health effects and how to interpret the results of these studies. In the environmental and traffic safety fields it is instead common to carry out traditional cost-bene:fit analyses of health improving programmes. This striking difference in how health programmes are assessed in different fields was the original motivation for writing this book. The aim of the book is to tty and provide a coherent framework within cost-bene:fit analysis and welfare economics for the different methods of economic evaluation in the health care field. The book is written in an easily accessible manner and several examples of applications of the different methods are provided. It is my hope that it will be useful both for teaching purposes and as a guide for practitioners in the field. Glenn C. Blomquist, John D. Graham, Rich O'Conor and four anonymous referees provided helpful comments on previous versions of the manuscript. I would also like to express my gratitude to the following persons for helping me to prepare the manuscript: Carl-Magnus Berglund, Carin Blanksvard, Ann Brown, and Ziad Obeid.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

    Magnus Johannesson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Theory and Methods of Economic Evaluation of Health Care

  • Authors: Magnus Johannesson

  • Series Title: Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6822-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4037-9Published: 31 May 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-4757-4Published: 03 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-6822-0Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0927-4987

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 247

  • Topics: Microeconomics, Economic Policy, Public Health

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