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Science of Making Better Decisions About Health: CEA and BCA

2015

This chapter reviews the main scientific methods for guiding the allocation of resources to health: cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) and cost-benefit analysis (CBA), sketches their methodological progress over the last several decades, and presents examples of how medical practice in other high-income countries, where people live longer, follows the priorities indicated by cost-effectiveness analysis.

 

Source:

Russell L. The Science of Making Better Decisions About Health: Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Benefit Analysis. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2015. http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/population-health/russell.html