Duration: 3h

The problem of measuring the burden of disease.

Introduction to cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), the most widely applied tool to guide policy decisions concerning the allocation of healthcare resources. Introduction to the idea that cost-effectiveness studies can be designed to analyse competing interventions incorporating both cost and outcomes. The concept of Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratio (ICER), which is expressed as incremental cost per incremental gain expressed in some natural unit.