Methodological Advances in the Economic Evaluation of Infectious Disease Prevention
The Case of Chlamydial Screening and Meningococcal C Vaccination
©2007
Thesis
194 Pages
Summary
Currently, most health care systems cannot afford all possible health care technologies and thus face serious resource allocation decisions. Economic evaluation represents one important tool to support decision-makers tackle this issue. The economic evaluation of infectious diseases is typically trickier than comparable analysis of other diseases. This book initially analyzes the differences between economic evaluation of infectious and non-infectious diseases and subsequently presents methodological advances for conducting the former, using real world examples. Guidance, especially, on the use of dynamic versus static models; on the assessment of indirect costs and the transferability of study results from one country to another country is given.
Details
- Pages
- 194
- Publication Year
- 2007
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783631552452
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Chlamydienkrankheit Kostenanalyse Ökonomische Evaluation Kosteneffektivität Prävention Impfen Reihenuntersuchung Screenen
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2007. 194 pp., 17 fig., 26 tables