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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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2014-06

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
Thema
cost-effectiveness analysis
cost-benefit analysis

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Russell, Louise B.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Rutgers University, Department of Economics
(wo)
New Brunswick, NJ
(wann)
2014

Handle
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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

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