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Why Perspective Matters In Health Outcomes Research Analyses

International Business & Economics Research Journal

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Field Value
 
Title Why Perspective Matters In Health Outcomes Research Analyses
 
Creator Polimeni, John M.
Vichansavakul, Kittaya
Iorgulescu, Raluca I.
Chandrasekara, Ray
 
Subject Economic Forecasting; Economics; Southeast Asian Studies; Health Outcomes Research
Health Outcomes; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Cost-Effectiveness
 
Description Health outcomes research typically uses cost-effectiveness or cost-utility analysis. These approaches take a narrow perspective of the individual effects, typically from the payer or the provider point-of-view. However, using these narrow perspectives misses macro-level, or societal level, benefits and costs that could significantly alter whether an intervention is considered beneficial or cost-effective. The societal perspective accounts for all the effects impacting patients, their families, the public, and government expenditures for a healthcare intervention. Such a perspective is vital for healthcare interventions for illnesses where morbidity and long absences from work are probable. A cost-benefit analysis would account for all the societal benefits and costs, allowing policy-makers to observe an outcomes analysis more closely reflective of the real impacts. This paper clearly presents why a societal perspective using cost-benefit analysis should be the preferred method of health outcomes research. An example of breast cancer interventions is used to illustrate this point.
 
Publisher The Clute Institute
 
Date 2013-10-29
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://www.cluteinstitute.com/ojs/index.php/IBER/article/view/8186
10.19030/iber.v12i11.8186
 
Source International Business & Economics Research Journal (IBER); Vol 12 No 11 (2013); 1503-1512
2157-9393
1535-0754
10.19030/iber.v12i11
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://www.cluteinstitute.com/ojs/index.php/IBER/article/view/8186/8225