World Health Organization guide for standardization of ... - RHO

Contents
Preface ................................................................................................................................vi
Abbreviations and Acronyms ........................................................................................ viii
Acknowledgements .............................................................................................................x
Executive Summary .........................................................................................................xii
Chapter 1: Introduction ..................................................................................................1
1.1 Evidence-based decision-making ..............................................................................1
1.2 Existing guidance on economic evaluation ..............................................................3
1.3 What is different about this guide? ............................................................................3
1.4 Aim and target audience of this guide ......................................................................3
1.5 Structure of the Guide ................................................................................................4
Chapter 2: Economic Evaluation of Health Care .......................................................5
2.1 Different types of economic evaluation ....................................................................5
2.2 The role of economic evaluation ...............................................................................6
2.3 Budget impact analysis/financing of programme implementation .........................7
Chapter 3: Framing the Analysis ...................................................................................9
3.1 Target audience ............................................................................................................9
3.2 Study question .............................................................................................................9
3.3 Type of evaluation ....................................................................................................10
3.4 Target population ......................................................................................................10
3.5 Comparator ...............................................................................................................11
3.6 Perspective .................................................................................................................12
3.7 Time frame and analytic horizon .............................................................................13
3.8 Recommendations .....................................................................................................14
Chapter 4: Assessing the Cost of a Vaccination Programme ..................................15
4.1 Approaches to costing ..............................................................................................15
4.2 Identification: which costs to include?....................................................................18
4.3 How to measure resource use? ................................................................................21
4.4 Valuing resources ......................................................................................................23
4.5 Valuing productivity losses/gains ............................................................................25
4.6 Vaccination-specific costing issues .........................................................................26
4.7 Recommendations .....................................................................................................28
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