Distributional Cost-Effectiveness: Putting Money Where Your Mouth Is on Health Equity.

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Editorials30 May 2023Distributional Cost-Effectiveness: Putting Money Where Your Mouth Is on Health EquityRichard Cookson, PhDRichard Cookson, PhDCentre for Health Economics, University of York, York, United KingdomSearch for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/M23-1145 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail The COVID-19 pandemic sparked substantial talk about health equity (1) and the potential role of medical innovation in reducing health disparities (2). But talk is cheap. Health care payers, policymakers, and the life sciences industry must now put their money where their mouth is by investing more of the vast resources at their disposal into equity-enhancing technologies with measured impacts on reducing disparities in health between more and less socially advantaged groups.Primarily, this will require sustained political leadership and social solidarity. However, it will also require reliable quantification of the health equity impacts of interventions, of the kind that ...