Abstract
The aim of economic evaluations of health care programmes is to serve as an aid to decisions and to affect policy making. If economic evaluations of health care programmes are not going to have any impact on decisions about the allocation of resources to health care programmes, this is a meaningless activity. In this chapter we discuss different decision and policy situations where economic evaluations of health care programmes could potentially be used. We discuss economic evaluations as an aid to: the development of treatment guidelines, decisions within health care organizations, introduction of new medical technologies, reimbursement decisions, and pricing decisions. We end the chapter with some conclusions about the relationship between economic evaluations and policy making.KeywordsEconomic EvaluationTreatment GuidelineHealth Care OrganizationHealth Care FinancingPrice DecisionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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