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.

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Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

Magnus Johannesson

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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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