Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis of health care programmes - A methodological case study of the UK bowel cancer screening programme

Health Economics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 742-754

  Asaria, Miqdad ^a   Griffin, Susan ^a   Cookson, Richard ^a   Whyte, Sophie ^b   Tappenden, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cost effectiveness analysis; equity; health inequality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CULTURAL DEPRIVATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NEIGHBORHOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIAL WELFARE; UNITED KINGDOM; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; DEMOGRAPHY; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; PROCEDURES; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; REMINDER SYSTEM; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COST OF ILLNESS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; REMINDER SYSTEMS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATE MEDICINE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84927718090     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.3058     Document Type: Article

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