Health Economics from Theory to Practice Optimally Informing Joint Decisions of Research, Reimbursement and Regulation with Health System Budget Constraints and Community Objectives /

This book provides a robust set of health economic principles and methods to inform societal decisions in relation to research, reimbursement and regulation (pricing and monitoring of performance in practice). We provide a theoretical and practical framework that navigates to avoid common biases and...

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Main Author: Eckermann, Simon. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Adis, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50613-5
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I. Health Economic Principles and Practice for Robustly Evaluating Health System Investment with Trial, Model and Multiplier Methods Across Individual and Community Level Analyses
  • 2. Principles and Practice for Trial Based Health Economic Analysis
  • 3. Avoiding Frankenstein’s Monster and Partial Analysis Problems: Robustly Synthesizing, Translating and Extrapolating Evidence
  • 4. Beyond the Individual – Evaluating Community Based Health Promotion and Prevention Strategies and Palliative Care Domains of Effect
  • Part II. Joint Research and Reimbursement Questions, Optimising Local and Global Trial Design and Decision Making Under Uncertainty within and Across Jurisdictions with Value of Information Methods
  • 5. The Value of Value of Information Methods to Decision Making: What VOI Measures Enable Optimising Joint Research and Reimbursement Decisions within a Jurisdiction?
  • 6. Globally Optimal Societal Decision Maker Trials
  • 7. Value of INFORMATION, Pricing under Uncertainty and Risk Sharing with Optimal Global Trial Design
  • Part III. Regulating Strategies and Providers in Practice: the Net Benefit Correspondence Theorem Enabling Robust Comparison of Multiple Strategies, Outcomes and Provider Efficiency in Practice Consistent with Net Benefit Maximisation
  • 8. Best Informing Multiple Strategy Cost Effectiveness Analysis and Societal Decision Making - the Cost Disutility Plane and Expected Net Loss Curves and Frontiers
  • 9. Including Quality of Care in Efficiency Measures: Creating Incentives Consistent with Maximising Net Benefit in Practice
  • 10. Multiple Outcome Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Cost-Disutility Space
  • Part IV. The Health Shadow Price and Other Key Political Economy and Policy Issues - Appropriate Threshold Pricing and Policy Application of Methods for Optimizing Community Net Benefit with Budget Constraints
  • 11. The Health Shadow Price and Economically Meaningful Threshold Values
  • 12. Policy Implications and Applications Across Health Care Reform with Baby Boomer Ageing for Primary Care, Acute Care, Aged Care and Palliative care in Australia
  • 13. Conclusion.