Applied Health Economics for Public Health Practice and Research

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Applied Health Economics for Public Health Practice and Research

Edited by Rhiannon Tudor Edwards and Emma McIntosh

Abstract

Public health has been described as the organized activities of society to improve and protect the health of the population. Health economics applied to public health is the study of how we allocate our scarce societal resources to meet our public health wants and needs in the best way possible. This book presents current thinking on health economics methodology and application to the evaluation of public health interventions (PHIs). It is for health economists working in higher education and public healthcare systems, challenged with the economic evaluation of PHIs, when they have been used to applying health economics and the methods of economic evaluation to narrower clinical interventions in primary or secondary care settings. This book will also be of interest to public health practitioners wanting to incorporate health economics into their daily work. This book covers the history of economics of public health and the economic rationale for government investment in prevention; principles of health economics including scarcity, choice, and opportunity cost; evidence synthesis; key methods of economic evaluation with accompanying case studies; economic modelling of public health interventions; return on investment analysis with national and international case studies; and application of programme budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA) to the prioritization of PHIs. It concludes with priorities for research in the field of public health economics, spanning an acknowledgement of the role played by the natural environment in promoting better health, through to precision public health, recognizing the role of genetics, the environment, and socioeconomic status in determining population health.

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Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: Mar 2019

Print ISBN-13:: 9780198737483

Published online:: Mar 2019

DOI:: 10.1093/med/9780198737483.001.0001

Authors

Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, editor Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluations, Bangor University, Wales, UK

Emma McIntosh, editor Professor of Health Economics, Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment, (HEHTA), University of Glasgow, UK

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Front Matter
Chapter 1 Introduction to public health and public health economicsRhiannon T. Edwards and Robert Atenstaedt
Chapter 2 The supply and demand of preventive goods and services and the need for economic analysisSeow Tien Yeo, Huw Lloyd-Williams, and Rhiannon T. Edwards
Chapter 3 Applying methods of economic evaluation to public health: Contemporary solutions to traditional challengesRhiannon T. Edwards and Emma McIntosh
Chapter 4 Synthesizing evidence for economic evaluations of public health interventionsOlivia Wu, Joanna M. Charles, and Nathan Bray
Chapter 5 Identification, measurement, and valuation of resource use in economic evaluations of public health interventionsCarys Jones, Joanna M. Charles, and Rhiannon T. Edwards
Chapter 6 Identifying, measuring, and valuing outcomes within economic evaluations of public health interventionsEmma McIntosh
Chapter 7 Cost-effectiveness analysis of public health interventionsRhiannon T. Edwards
Chapter 8 Cost–utility analysis of public health interventionsRhiannon T. Edwards and Eira Winrow
Chapter 9 Cost–benefit analysis for applied public health economic evaluationEmma McIntosh, Camilla Baba, and Willings Botha
Chapter 10 Cost–consequence analysis of public health interventionsNed Hartfiel and Rhiannon T. Edwards
Chapter 11 The use of modelling approaches for the economic evaluation of public health interventionsHazel Squires and Kathleen Boyd
Chapter 12 Return on investment, social return on investment, and the business case for preventionJoanna M. Charles, Alice Jones, and Huw Lloyd-Williams
Chapter 13 The role of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) in public health economic evaluationHuw Lloyd-Williams
Chapter 14 To disinvest or invest? The role of programme budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA) for economic evaluation and prioritization between public health interventionsJoanna M. Charles and Rhiannon T. Edwards
Chapter 15 International perspectives and future directions for research and policyRhiannon T. Edwards, Emma McIntosh, and Eira Winrow
End Matter
- Index

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