Programme costs in the economic evaluation of health interventions
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- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
- Vol. 1 (1), 1
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-7547-1-1
Abstract
Estimating the costs of health interventions is important to policy-makers for a number of reasons including the fact that the results can be used as a component in the assessment and improvement of their health system performance. Costs can, for example, be used to assess if scarce resources are being used efficiently or whether there is scope to reallocate them in a way that would lead to improvements in population health. As part of its WHO-CHOICE project, WHO has been developing a database on the overall costs of health interventions in different parts of the world as an input to discussions about priority setting.Keywords
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