Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Programme costs in the economic evaluation of health interventions. | Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation Methodology Programme costs in the economic evaluation of health interventions Benjamin Johns Rob Baltussen and Raymond Hutubessy BioMed Central Open Access Address Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy GPE EQC World Health Organization CH-1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland Email Benjamin Johns - johnsb@ Rob Baltussen - baltussenr@ Raymond Hutubessy - hutubessyr@ Corresponding author Published 26 February 2003 Received 24 February 2003 Accepted 26 February 2003 Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2003 1 1 This article is available from http content 1 1 1 2003 Johns et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose provided this notice is preserved along with the article s original URL. 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. Programme costs defined as costs incurred at the administrative levels outside the point of delivery of health care to beneficiaries may comprise an important component of total costs. Costeffectiveness analysis has sometimes omitted them if the main focus has been on personal curative interventions or on the costs of making small changes within the existing administrative set-up. However this is not appropriate for non-personal interventions where .
