Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Program Evaluation
- 1 August 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Evaluation Review
- Vol. 4 (4) , 549-568
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0193841x8000400407
Abstract
The growing demand for prospective evaluation enhances the popularity of cost-effective ness analysis, a technique for identifying best uses of scarce resources. Defined in diverse ways during its short history, cost-effectiveness analysis is now seen as the evaluative comparison of monetary and nonmonetary dimensions of impact. The cost-effectiveness ratio for health programs divides monetary effects by health effects. Decisions on com peting alternative programs should be resolved by regarding cost-effectiveness ratios on the differences between programs.Keywords
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