Topic: Economic evaluation and health inequality: why, how and when

Speaker: YANG Fan, Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York, UK

Time: Sept. 6, 2021, 20:00-21:00，Beijing Time

Language： English

Abstract

Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is routinely employed to inform health care resource allocation decisions. When allocating resources in public health, decision makers often consider how potential policies would improve population health and reduce unfair health inequalities. The decisions could be informed by the results of distributional cost-effectiveness analysis (DCEA), which incorporates health inequality concerns into economic evaluation by accounting for how parameters, such as effectiveness, differ across population groups. In this seminar, I will introduce why DCEA is of great value to public health decision making, how the analysis is conducted and when DCEA would add most value.