Economic Evaluation in Health Care

This book updates and complements the highly successful Methods for Economic Evaluations that myriads of health economists affectionately refer to as 'the blue book' . . . The original work was a landmark publication and set high standards for any future volume. After reading the new (red covered) book, I predict that people will mention it in the same breath . . . This is a book to keep and refer to; both health economists and health policy makers will undoubtedly benefit from reading and having this book on their shelf.

• 1. Theoretical concepts in the economic evaluation of health care ; 2. Welfare economics and economic evaluation ; 3. Output measures and valuation in health ; 4. Costing in economic evaluation ; 5. The role and estimation of productivity costs in economic evaluation ; 6. Trial-based economic evaluations: an overview of design and analysis ; 7. Modelling in economic evaluation ; 8. Handling uncertainty in economic evaluation ; 9. Statistical considerations in analyzing health care resource utilisation and cost data ; 10. Discounting in economic evaluation ; 11. Transferability of economic evaluation results