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Bridging the gap between health and non-health investments: moving from cost-effectiveness analysis to a return on investment approach across sectors of economy.
- Source :
- International Journal of Health Care Finance & Economics; Mar2008, Vol. 8 Issue 2, p113-121, 9p, 2 Charts, 2 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- When choosing from a menu of treatment alternatives, the optimal treatment depends on the objective function and the assumptions of the model. The classical decision rule of cost-effectiveness analysis may be formulated via two different objective functions: (i) maximising health outcomes subject to the budget constraint or (ii) maximising the net benefit of the intervention with the budget being determined ex post. We suggest a more general objective function of (iii) maximising return on investment from available resources with consideration of health and non-health investments. The return on investment approach allows to adjust the analysis for the benefits forgone by alternative non-health investments from a societal or subsocietal perspective. We show that in the presence of positive returns on non-health investments the decision-maker’s willingness to pay per unit of effect for a treatment program needs to be higher than its incremental cost-effectiveness ratio to be considered cost-effective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- HEALTH
COST effectiveness
RATE of return
BUDGET
INVESTMENTS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13896563
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Health Care Finance & Economics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 31838233
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-008-9032-4