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SUMMARY:PriMHE Programme in the Methods of Health Economics
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DESCRIPTION:Using distributional cost-effectiveness analysis to reduce heal
 th inequality\n Professor Richard Cookson\n\nThis talk will introduce the 
 methods now available for analysing the equity impacts of health technolog
 ies and programs and the trade-offs that sometimes arise between equity an
 d efficiency\, with examples from the UK. Distributional cost-effectivenes
 s analysis (DCEA) can analyse equity in the distribution of costs and effe
 cts between more and less socially disadvantaged groups\, as well as effic
 iency in terms of aggregate costs and effects. It can address three main q
 uestions: (i) is this intervention likely to increase or reduce health ine
 quality\, (ii) how large or small is the impact on health inequality likel
 y to be\, compared with the impacts on health inequality of other interven
 tions in other disease areas\, and (iii) how much concern for reducing hea
 lth inequality would be needed to consider this intervention worthwhile\, 
 taking into account both cost-effectiveness and health inequality impact? 
 Conducting a full DCEA can be resource intensive\, but simplified approach
 es are available. In principle\, any country or organisation can use DCEA 
 - they just need to specify the relevant social disadvantage groups\, esti
 mate distributions of effects and opportunity costs\, create summary indic
 es of health inequality impact and\, where appropriate\, analyse equity-ef
 ficiency trade-offs.\n\nRichard Cookson is a Professor at the Centre for H
 ealth Economics\, University of York. He has helped pioneer “equity-info
 rmative” methods of economic evaluation and performance monitoring that 
 provide information about the impacts of interventions and organisations o
 n inequalities in health and wellbeing\, including distributional cost-eff
 ectiveness analysis\, health equity indicators for healthcare quality assu
 rance\, methods for investigating public concern for reducing health inequ
 ality\, and microsimulation methods for long-term childhood policy analysi
 s. He has also worked in the UK Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit and serve
 d on various NHS advisory committees.\n\nThis lecture is accredited with 1
  DFP-point for members of the Austrian Medical Chamber.
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