Thursday, July 26, 2012

Public health and economics: a marriage of necessity

Public health and economics: a marriage of necessity

Alan Maynard

The Journal of Public Health Research, Vol 1, No 1 (2012)

Abstract

With resources always scarce limited resources have to be targeted at those interventions, prevention and cure, that give the greatest population health gain at least cost. Mere identification of what works in prevention is inadequate unless this evidence is supplemented with economic analysis that identifies what is cost effective. Public health without the use of economics is incomplete.

http://www.jphres.org/index.php/jphres/article/download/jphr.2012.e4/pdf

2 comments:

Nicola O'Connell said...

This is a nice antidote to Maynard's paper:

NICE Social Value Judgements

Liam Delaney said...

Cheers both for links. A good debate for the next year of work.