Arbeitspapier
The science of making better decisions about health: Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis
Despite spending far more on medical care, Americans live shorter lives than the citizens of other high-income countries. The situation has been getting worse for at least three decades. This paper describes the main scientific methods for guiding the allocation of resources to health - cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) and cost-benefit analysis (CBA), sketches their methodological progress over the last several decades, and presents examples of how medical practice in other high-income countries, where people live longer, follows the priorities indicated by cost-effectiveness analysis. CEA and CBA support democratic decision-making processes, which have themselves benefited from scientific inquiry; these are touched on at the end of the paper.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 2014-06
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
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cost-effectiveness analysis
cost-benefit analysis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Russell, Louise B.
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Veröffentlichung
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Rutgers University, Department of Economics
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New Brunswick, NJ
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2014
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- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Russell, Louise B.
- Rutgers University, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 2014