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ReviewPublication 2015Population Health: Behavioral and Social Science Insights
This book comprises 23 chapters focused on what the effects of various behavioral and social factors …
This book comprises 23 chapters focused on what the effects of various behavioral and social factors on longevity, disability and illness, and quality of life, primarily at the population level. Factors such as access to health care, educational attainment, nutrition, physical activity, use of tobacco products, and non-communicable diseases are considered, along with many other determinants of health and longevity. Of particular interest for health decision scientists are the following chapters: In Section 4: The Science…
Priority Setting/Ethics | Benefit-Cost Analysis | Europe | Global | Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | Health/Medicine | North America -
ReviewPublication 2014Valuing Vaccination
Vaccination has led to remarkable health gains over the last century. However, large coverage gaps …
Vaccination has led to remarkable health gains over the last century. However, large coverage gaps remain, which will require significant financial resources and political will to address. In recent years, a compelling line of inquiry has established the economic benefits of health, at both the individual and aggregate levels. Most existing economic evaluations of particular health interventions fail to account for this new research, leading to potentially sizable undervaluation of those interventions. In line with…
Priority Setting/Ethics | Benefit-Cost Analysis | Global | Preferences/Values | Costing Methods | Infectious Diseases | Health Systems | Economics/Finance | Health/Medicine -
GuidelinesPublication 2014Methods for Economic Evaluation Project
This report details the work of the Methods for Economic Evaluation Project (MEEP), which aims …
This report details the work of the Methods for Economic Evaluation Project (MEEP), which aims to promote a consistency in the methods used for economic evaluations. The report is targeted especially at low and middle-income countries (LMICs). The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a major funder of health economic evaluations in LMICs, but there is substantial variation in the methods used and the quality of the analyses produced. The report drew on expertise from…
Priority Setting/Ethics | Benefit-Cost Analysis | Global | Costing Methods | Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | Climate/Environment | Education/Labor | Health/Medicine -
ReviewPublication 2023Handbook of Vaccine Health Economics
The open-access book, "Handbook of Applied Health Economics in Vaccines," looks at the complexities of …
The open-access book, "Handbook of Applied Health Economics in Vaccines," looks at the complexities of vaccine discovery, financing, and distribution. It highlights the inadequacy of standard economic models for vaccines. The book explores alternative principles challenging market-based approaches and equips readers with tools for assessing costs and benefits through practical exercises. It serves as a comprehensive resource for decision-making in vaccine development and distribution and emphasizes the importance of considering broader perspectives beyond economic efficiency.…
Benefit-Cost Analysis | Global | Costing Methods | Health Outcomes | Evidence Synthesis | Decision Analysis | Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | Policy/Regulation | Health/Medicine | Graduate | Doctoral | Professional -
ReviewPublication 2018Incorporating MCDA into HTA: A Focus on Lower Income Settings
The authors present key challenges, both methodological and practical against using multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) …
The authors present key challenges, both methodological and practical against using multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) in health technology assessment (HTA) as well as solutions to these challenges. They showcase lessons learned from previous applications of MCDS to HTA, including design, criteria of models, approaches for estimating costs and challenges with various approaches. By showing efforts that have succeeded in overcoming these challenges in lower and middle income-countries, they show how MCDA has the potential to…
Priority Setting/Ethics | Global | Health Systems | Health/Medicine -
ReviewPublication 2018Reflective Multicriteria for Healthcare Decision-Making? The EVIDEM Journey
The authors discuss a framework for mulicriteria decision making for healthcare decision making that was …
The authors discuss a framework for mulicriteria decision making for healthcare decision making that was created and used by the EVIDEM Collaboration between 2006 and 2017. This framework originally incorporated healthcare ethics, evidenced-based medicine, health economics, health technology assessment and multicriteria approaches to decision making. The authors present this modified 10th edition framework, which builds on these by enhancing the following 4 areas: universal healthcare, values and ethics, evidence-based interventions, and process transformation. The framework…
Priority Setting/Ethics | Global | Health Systems | Health/Medicine -
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…
Priority Setting/Ethics | Global | Costing Methods | Health Outcomes | Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | Health Systems | Policy/Regulation | Health/Medicine -
GuidelinesWeb Portal 2013Handbook for Diagnostic Test Accuracy
The Cochrane handbook for reviews of diagnostic test accuracy is produced by the Cochrane Diagnostic …
The Cochrane handbook for reviews of diagnostic test accuracy is produced by the Cochrane Diagnostic Test Accuracy Working Group. This group was constituted by the Steering Group of the Cochrane Collaboration to implement the publication of systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy within the Cochrane Collaboration. The handbook is structured as Part 1. Cochrane Reviews which contains four chapters and Part 2. General Methods for Cochrane Reviews of Diagnostic Test Accuracy which contains seven chapters. This web…
Test Performance | Global | Evidence Synthesis | Health Systems | Health/Medicine -
GuidelinesPublication 2016Methods for Health Economic Evaluation of Vaccines
This article describes the development of a consensus for health economic evaluations of vaccines to …
This article describes the development of a consensus for health economic evaluations of vaccines to support the development of national guidelines in Europe. While guidelines advocating more standardization of health economic evaluations exist, this article aims to address several immunization-specific aspects (e.g. indirect effects or discounting approach) which are still a subject of debate. The systematic literature review search was informed by expert opinion. 2,838 articles were returned from the search and 26 were finally…
Dynamic Transmission | Europe | Costing Methods | Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | Infectious Diseases | Health Systems | Health/Medicine