Applied Methods of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Health Care (Handbooks in Health Economic Evaluation 4)

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Includes illustrative material, case histories and worked examples to encourage the reader to apply the methods discussed, with supporting material provided online

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive set of instructions and examples of how to perform a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of a health intervention. Developed out of a course run by Jordan Louviere at the University of Technology, Sydney, entitled An Introduction to Stated Preference Discrete Choice Modelling it has a particular focus on the use of stated preference survey methods to identify consumer preference data, as well as the use of recent developments in cost-effectiveness analysis within a CBA framework. In doing so, the most up to date methodologies for CBA are compiled in a comprehensive manner with the aim of advancing the methodology of CBA in healthcare.

ABOUT THE SERIES
Series editors Alastair Gray and Andrew Briggs

Economic evaluation of health intervention is a growing specialist field, and this series of practical handbooks tackles, in depth, topics superficially addressed in more general economics books. Each volume includes illustrative material, case histories and worked examples to encourage the reader to apply the methods discussed, with supporting material provided online. The series is aimed at health economists in academia, the pharmaceutical industry and the health sector, those on advanced health economics courses, and health researchers in associated fields.

Readership: This book is aimed at health economists in academia, the pharmaceutical industry and the health sector, those on advanced health economics courses, and health researchers in associated fields.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Series preface
Contributors
Web resources
Acknowledgements

1: Emma McIntosh: Introduction
2: Philip Clarke: Methods for evaluating health and healthcare - underlying theory and implications for practical application
3: Emma McIntosh: Shadow pricing in healthcare cost benefit analyses
4: Emma McIntosh: Costing methodology for applied cost-benefit analysis in healthcare
5: F. Reed Johnson and W.L. (Vic) Adamowicz: Valuation and cost-benefit analysis in health and environmental economics
6: Emma Frew: Benefit assessment for CBA studies in healthcare using CV methods
7: Emma Frew: Benefit assessment for CBA studies in healthcare: A guide to carrying out a stated preference willingness to pay survey in healthcare
8: Emma McIntosh, Alastair Gray, Mathias Haefeli, Achim Elfering, Atul Sukthankar and Norbert Boos: Applied cost-benefit analysis in healthcare: An empirical application in spinal surgery
9: Philip Clarke: Using revealed preference methods to value healthcare - the travel cost approach
10: Richard Carson and Jordan Louviere: Experimental design and the estimation of willingness to pay in choice experiments for health policy evaluation
11: Jordan Louviere and Denzil G. Fiebig: Benefit assessment for CBA studies in health care using discrete choice experiments: Estimating welfare in a health care setting
12: Emma McIntosh: A practical guide to reporting and presenting stated preference discrete choice experiment results in CBA studies in healthcare
13: Emma McIntosh, W.L. (Vic) Adamowicz and F. Reed Johnson: The relevance of cost-benefit analysis in healthcare: concluding comments

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Edited by Emma McIntosh, Health Economics Research Centre, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, UK, Philip Clarke, The University of Sydney, Australia, Emma Frew, Senior Lecturer in Health Economics, University of Birmingham, UK, and Jordan Louviere, Professor of Marketing and Executive Director, Centre for the Study of Choice (CenSoC), The University of Technology, Sydney, Australia