Comparing Health Gains, Costs & Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions in Australia & New Zealand
2022
This paper synthesizes the health gains, costs, and cost-effectiveness of health interventions in Australia and New Zealand (NZ) from studies conducted with comparable methods, and reports results in the form of an online interactive league table.
Studies from the Australia Cost-Effectiveness research and NZ Burden of Disease Epidemiology, Equity and Cost-Effectiveness Programmes and studies were included which reported health-adjusted life years (HALYs) and net health system costs and/or incremental cost-effectiveness ratios, used a time horizon of at least 10 years, and applied a 3% to 5% discount rate.
Interventions spanned communicable and non-communicable diseases and risk factors, health gains varied substantially, and more than one-third were cost saving. While the authors discuss the limitations of league tables, they emphasize the motivation to make data that informs policy publicly available and in the format of an easy-to-use online tool.
Comparing Health Gains, Costs & Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions in Australia & New Zealand
Source:
Carvalho N, Sousa TV, Mizdrak A et al. Comparing Health Gains, Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions in Australia & New Zealand: An Online Interactive League Table. Population Health Metrics 2022; 20 (17). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12963-022-00294-3