Cost Effectiveness and the Poor
•COST-EFFECTIVENESS
analysis (CEA) has emerged as a basic
tool in the evaluation of health
care practices
•CEA can be
based on the mathematical theory of
"optimization."
– objective to maximize (eg, life-years or quality-adjusted life-years [QALYs])
– specify the particular resource constraint
under which allocations must be made
Recommendations of the Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in
Health and Medicine
Weinstein, MC, JAMA 1996