Booklet 2 - Introduction to health economics concepts
The aim of this booklet is to help the reader understand why
health economics is an important part of drug development and to
prompt consideration of the processes and analyses involved in
getting a drug reimbursed.
Some of the topics discussed
- The structure of a health economic evaluation
- Defining costs in health economic evaluations
- What are ‘benefits’?
- Data sources and data collection
- The importance of perspective
- Types of economic analyses
- Modelling and decision trees
- Uses of health economics
- Further reading
- List of abbreviations
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