Books in the Handbooks in Health Economic Evaluation series

Health inequalities blight lives, generate enormous costs, and exist everywhere. This book is the definitive all-in-one guide for anyone who wishes to learn about, commission, and use distributional cost-effectiveness analysis to promote both equity and efficiency in health and healthcare.

This book provides a comprehensive set of instructions and examples of how to perform a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of a health intervention, with a particular focus on the use of stated preference survey methods to identify consumer preference data and the use of recent developments in cost-effectiveness analysis within a CBA framework.

This book presents current thinking on health economics methodology and application to the evaluation of public health interventions. It covers the history of economics of public health and the economic rationale for government investment in prevention, principles of health economics, evidence synthesis, and more.