TY  - BOOK
TI  - Making choices in health: who guide to cost-effectiveness analysis 
AV  - HD 47 .4 .M35 2003
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Geneva
PB  - World Health Organization
KW  - Análisis costo-beneficio
KW  - Salud
N1  - Preface, ix --; List of acronyms and abbreviations, xxi --; Part one. Methods for generalized cost-effectiveness analysis --; 1. What is generalized cost-effectiveness analysis?, 3 --; 2. Undertaking a study using GCEA, 17 --; 3. Estimating costs, 29 --; 4. Estimating health effects, 49 --; 5. Discounting, 67 --; 6. Uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis, 73 --; 7. Policy uses of Generalized CEA, 83 --; 8. Reporting CEA results, 91 --; 9. Summary of recommendations, 93 --; References, 97 --; Annex A. Who-choice activities on generalized cost-effectiveness analysis, 107 --; Annex B. Draft list of intervention clusters for evaluation; by Who-Choice, 110 --; Annex C. An illustration of the types of costs included in a selection of intervention activities at central levels, 111 --; Annex D. Interpreting international dollars, 112 --; Annex E. Dalys to measure burden of disease, 113 --; Annex F. Measuring intervention benefit at the population level, 115 --; Annex G. Epidemiological subregions as applied in WHO generalized CEA, 118 --; Endnotes, 119 --; Part two. Background papers and applications --; 1. Development of who guidelines on generalized cost-effectiveness analysis; Christopher J.L. Murray, David B. Evans, Arnab Acharya, Rob M.P.M. Baltussen, 125 --; 2. PopMod: A longitudinal population model with two interacting disease states; Jeremy A. Lauer, Klaus Rohrich, Harold Wirth, Claude Charette, Steve Gribble, Christopher J.L. Murray, 151 --; 3. Programme costs in the economic evaluation of health interventions; Benjamin Johns, Rob Baltussen, Raymond Hutubessy, 177 --; 4. Econometric estimation of country-specific hospital costs; Taghreed Adam, David B. Evans, Christopher J.L. Murray, 197 --; 5. Stochastic league tables: communicating cost-effectiveness results to decision-makers; Raymond C. W. Hutubessy, Rob M.P.M. Baltussen, David B. Evans, Jan J. Barendregt, Christopher J.L. Murray, 217 --; 6. Uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis: probabilistic uncertainty analysis and stochastic league tables; Rob M.P.M. Baltussen, Raymond C. W. Hutubessy, David B. Evans, Christopher J.L. Murray, 225 7. Effectiveness and costs of interventions to lower systolic blood pressure and cholesterol: a global and regional analysis on reduction of cardiovascular-disease risk; Christopher J.L. Murray, Jeremy A. Lauer, Raymond C. W. Hutubessy, Louis Niessen, Niels Tomijima, Anthony Rodgers, Carlene M.M. Lawes, David B. Evans, 237 --; 8. Generalized cost-effectiveness analysis: an aid to decision making in health; Raymond C. W. Hutubessy, Rob M.P.M. Baltussen, Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer, David B. Evans, 277 --; 9. Ethical issues in the use of cost effectiveness analysis for the prioritization of health care resources; Dan W. Brock, 289 --; Index, 313
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