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ArticlePublication 2019Increasing Education in Lower-Middle-Income Countries
This case study examines the effects of increased education on mortality risks. Historically, benefit-cost analyses …
This case study examines the effects of increased education on mortality risks. Historically, benefit-cost analyses have focused on the effect of education on future wages. However, the available evidence also suggests that education reduces under-five and adult mortality rates. This paper estimates how net benefits, as well as the ratio of benefits to costs, responds to the approach used to value mortality risk reductions. It considers one additional year of schooling in lower-middle-income countries, incremental…
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ArticlePublication 2019Valuing Protection against Financial Risk
This paper explores the value of the financial risk protection provided by health insurance. While …
This paper explores the value of the financial risk protection provided by health insurance. While the benefits of reducing financial risks have long been recognized, less attention has been paid to how best to measure them. This paper provides a framework for assessing these benefits, focusing on three types of impacts: pooling the risk of unexpected medical expenditures between healthy and sick households, redistributing resources from high to low income recipients, and smoothing consumption over…
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GuidelinesWeb Portal 2017iDSI Reference Case for Economic Evaluation
This is a reference case which gives 12 principles to guide the planning, conduct and …
This is a reference case which gives 12 principles to guide the planning, conduct and reporting of health economic evaluations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The International Decision Support Group (iDSI) is a network of health, policy and economic experts. It builds on the approaches of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the UK, the Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP) in Thailand and the World Health Organization. iDSI…
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OrganizationWeb Portal 2024International Decision Support Initiative (iDSI)
The International Decision Support Initiative (iDSI) is a global network of health, policy and economic …
The International Decision Support Initiative (iDSI) is a global network of health, policy and economic expertise, working to achieve Universal Health Coverage and The Health Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 3). They are committed to robust evidence, analysis and decision-making that policymakers, funders and researchers can use to balance trade-offs between different policy options and model potential results to make the best choice available. They support countries to make better decisions about how much public money…
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ReportPublication 2017Benefit-Cost Analysis: Scoping Report
This report supports the scoping phase of the project, Benefit-Cost Analysis Reference Case: Principles, Methods, …
This report supports the scoping phase of the project, Benefit-Cost Analysis Reference Case: Principles, Methods, and Standards, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The report reviews and evaluates the current use of benefit-cost analysis, focusing on investments in health and development in low- and middle-income countries. In the scoping report, the authors: Discuss the relationship of this effort to the existing iDSI Reference Case and describe the overall benefit-cost analysis framework. Identify…
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | Health Systems | Decision Theory | Probability/Bayes | Priority Setting/Ethics | Costing Methods | Benefit-Cost Analysis | Policy/Regulation | Economics/Finance | Health/Medicine | Europe -
Working PaperPublication 2018Valuing Nonfatal Health Risk Reductions
This paper explores approaches for valuing nonfatal risk reductions associated with policy choices in low- …
This paper explores approaches for valuing nonfatal risk reductions associated with policy choices in low- and middle-income countries. The approach for valuation ideally would be based on estimates of individuals’ willingness to pay for changes in their own risks. However, high quality valuation research is not available for many nonfatal conditions even in high-income settings. Typically, two approaches are used either alone or in combination as rough proxies. The first involves applying an estimate of…
Health Outcomes | Social Determinants | Preferences/Values | Priority Setting/Ethics | Decision Analysis | Benefit-Cost Analysis | Policy/Regulation | Economics/Finance | Health/Medicine | Global | Critical Thinking/Analysis
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