Resource Pack: Extended Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
2024
Health policies are intended to increase the uptake of effective and efficient interventions and result in health gains (e.g., premature mortality and morbidity averted). Health policies can also provide non-health benefits in addition to the sole well-being of populations and beyond the health sector. For instance, social and health insurance programs can prevent illness-related impoverishment and provide financial risk protection. Health policies can also improve the distribution of health in the population and promote health equity.
Extended cost-effectiveness analysis evaluates the health and financial consequences of health policies in four domains: (1) the health gains; (2) the total costs; (3) the financial risk protection benefits; and (4) the distributional benefits. It therefore extends the scope of conventional cost-effectiveness analysis, which evaluates the incremental costs and gains in health outcomes of specific interventions compared to their next best alternatives, to consider non-health benefits such as financial risk protection and distributional equity.
This resource pack was curated by the Center for Health Decision Science to provide broad exposure to extended cost-effectiveness analysis (ECEA), including rationale, methods and applications.
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Resource Pack: Extended Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 2024. http://repository.chds.hsph.harvard.edu/repository/collection/resource-pack-extended-cost-effectiveness-analysis