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Estimating the Health Effects of Expansions in Health Expenditure in Indonesia: A Dynamic Panel Data Approach
The marginal productivity of a country’s healthcare system refers to the health gains produced per unit change in the level of spending. In budget-constrained settings, this metric reflects the opportunity cos...
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Open AccessSupporting a review of the benefits package of the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana
Although Ghana is lauded for its National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), concerns exist about the scheme’s functioning and sustainability. An often-cited issue—contributing to the scheme’s decreasing membersh...
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Avoiding Opportunity Cost Neglect in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Health Technology Assessment
Despite being a fundamental tenet of economic analysis there is a lack of clarity regarding the relevance of opportunity costs to cost-effectiveness analysis for health technology assessment. We argue that thi...
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Empirical Estimates of the Marginal Cost of Health Produced by a Healthcare System: Methodological Considerations from Country-Level Estimates
Many health technology assessment committees have an explicit or implicit reference value (often referred to as a ‘threshold’) below which new health technologies or interventions are considered value for mone...
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Informing a Cost-Effectiveness Threshold for Health Technology Assessment in China: A Marginal Productivity Approach
Health technology assessment has been increasingly used in China, having been legally mandated in 2019, to inform reimbursement decisions and price negotiations between the National Healthcare Security Adminis...
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Open AccessA one stop shop for cost-effectiveness evidence? Recommendations for improving Disease Control Priorities
Setting out a health benefits package (HBP) of interventions to be prioritised for funding is an important step towards achieving universal health coverage in low and middle income countries. The 3rd version o...
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Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds: the Past, the Present and the Future
Cost-effectiveness (CE) thresholds are being discussed more frequently and there have been many new developments in this area; however, there is a lack of understanding about what thresholds mean and their imp...