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- Dedication
- Foreword to the third edition
- Foreword to the second edition
- Foreword to the first edition
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1.1 Scoping public health problems
- 1.2 Priorities and ethics in health care
- 1.3 Assessing health status
- 1.4 Assessing health needs
- 1.5 Assessing health impacts
- 1.6 Economic assessment
- 2.1 Understanding data, information, and knowledge
- 2.2 Information technology and informatics
- 2.3 Qualitative methods
- 2.4 Epidemiological approach and design
- 2.5 Statistical understanding
- 2.6 Inference, causality, and interpretation
- 2.7 Finding and appraising evidence
- 2.8 Surveillance
- 2.9 Investigating clusters
- 2.10 Health trends: registers
- 3.1 Communicable disease epidemics
- 3.2 Environmental health risks
- 3.3 Protecting and promoting health in the workplace
- 3.4 Engaging communities in participatory research and action
- 3.5 Emergency response
- 3.6 Assuring screening programmes
- 3.7 Genetics
- 3.8 Health communication
- 3.9 Public health practice in primary care
- 4.1 Developing healthy public policy
- 4.2 Translating evidence to policy
- 4.3 Translating policy into indicators and targets
- 4.4 Translating goals, indicators, and targets into public health action
- 4.5 Media advocacy for policy influence
- 4.6 Influencing international policy
- 4.7 Public health in poorer countries
- 4.8 Regulation
- 5.1 Planning health services
- 5.2 Funding and delivering health care
- 5.3 Commissioning health care
- 5.4 Controlling expenditures
- 5.5 Using guidance and frameworks
- 5.6 Health care process and patient experience
- 5.7 Evaluating health care technologies
- 5.8 Improving equity
- 5.9 Improving quality
- 5.10 Evaluating health care systems
- 6.1 Developing leadership skills
- 6.2 Effective meetings
- 6.3 Effective writing
- 6.4 Working with the media
- 6.5 Communicating risk
- 6.6 Consultancy in a national strategy
- 6.7 Improving your professional practice
- 6.8 Activism
- 6.9 Innovation
- 7.1 Governance and accountability
- 7.2 Programme planning and project management
- 7.3 Business planning
- 7.4 Partnerships
- 7.5 Knowledge transfer
- 7.6 Health, sustainability, and climate change
- 7.7 Workforce
- 7.8 Effective public health action
- A chronology of public health practice
- Public health organizations, websites, and other resources
- Abbreviations and glossary
- References
- Index
(p. 64) Economic assessment
(p. 64) Economic assessment
- Chapter:
- (p. 64) Economic assessment
- Author(s):
Peter Brambleby
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780199586301.003.0006
This chapter will help the reader to understand the tools, techniques and approaches of health economics, apply a health economics way of framing a discussion when the need arises in management situations, and pose better questions when important choices are apparent and when the help of a professional health economist is involved.
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- Dedication
- Foreword to the third edition
- Foreword to the second edition
- Foreword to the first edition
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1.1 Scoping public health problems
- 1.2 Priorities and ethics in health care
- 1.3 Assessing health status
- 1.4 Assessing health needs
- 1.5 Assessing health impacts
- 1.6 Economic assessment
- 2.1 Understanding data, information, and knowledge
- 2.2 Information technology and informatics
- 2.3 Qualitative methods
- 2.4 Epidemiological approach and design
- 2.5 Statistical understanding
- 2.6 Inference, causality, and interpretation
- 2.7 Finding and appraising evidence
- 2.8 Surveillance
- 2.9 Investigating clusters
- 2.10 Health trends: registers
- 3.1 Communicable disease epidemics
- 3.2 Environmental health risks
- 3.3 Protecting and promoting health in the workplace
- 3.4 Engaging communities in participatory research and action
- 3.5 Emergency response
- 3.6 Assuring screening programmes
- 3.7 Genetics
- 3.8 Health communication
- 3.9 Public health practice in primary care
- 4.1 Developing healthy public policy
- 4.2 Translating evidence to policy
- 4.3 Translating policy into indicators and targets
- 4.4 Translating goals, indicators, and targets into public health action
- 4.5 Media advocacy for policy influence
- 4.6 Influencing international policy
- 4.7 Public health in poorer countries
- 4.8 Regulation
- 5.1 Planning health services
- 5.2 Funding and delivering health care
- 5.3 Commissioning health care
- 5.4 Controlling expenditures
- 5.5 Using guidance and frameworks
- 5.6 Health care process and patient experience
- 5.7 Evaluating health care technologies
- 5.8 Improving equity
- 5.9 Improving quality
- 5.10 Evaluating health care systems
- 6.1 Developing leadership skills
- 6.2 Effective meetings
- 6.3 Effective writing
- 6.4 Working with the media
- 6.5 Communicating risk
- 6.6 Consultancy in a national strategy
- 6.7 Improving your professional practice
- 6.8 Activism
- 6.9 Innovation
- 7.1 Governance and accountability
- 7.2 Programme planning and project management
- 7.3 Business planning
- 7.4 Partnerships
- 7.5 Knowledge transfer
- 7.6 Health, sustainability, and climate change
- 7.7 Workforce
- 7.8 Effective public health action
- A chronology of public health practice
- Public health organizations, websites, and other resources
- Abbreviations and glossary
- References
- Index
