Session: Estimating the costs and benefits of public health interventions

Room: Congress Hall A
Time: Thu 16:00 PM-17:15 PM

Estimating the costs and benefits of public health interventions

Chair: Pieter van Baal (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Session Description

Public health interventions are drawing more and more attention from policy makers. This attention has also increased the number of economic evaluations within the domain of public health. However, methods to evaluate public health interventions are less well established than those in the domain of clinical interventions. This session focuses on methodological issues that arise when estimating the cost and benefits of public health interventions. Questions that will be addressed in this session are:
1. How to deal with medical costs in life years gained as a result of successful preventive interventions?
2. How to estimate the health benefits of interventions that influence multiple chronic diseases instead of just one?
3. How to take into account previous health states of the affected individuals when evaluating interventions targeted at the general population?
4. What is the appropriate perspective and normative framework for the evaluation of public health intervention and what outcome measure should then be preferred?
In this session, after a short introduction by the chair, these matters are discussed further by four speakers that have published important papers in the area of public health and economics. Presenters came from four different countries and all are currently working on economic evaluations within the domain of public health.



Session Organizer: Pieter van Baal (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Presentations

  1. Modelling and forecasting Dutch life expectancy and disability-free life expectancy at old age
    Presenter: Istvan Majer (Erasmus MC)
  2. Quality of Life Lost Due to Non-Fatal Road Crashes
    Presenter: Carmen Herrero (Universidad de Alicante)
  3. Unrelated health care costs: excluded, included, or a bit of both?
    Presenter: Lennert Veerman (University of Queensland)
  4. How to (best) measure outcomes in evaluations of public health interventions
    Presenter: Paula Lorgelly (Monash University)

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