Methodological issues in economic evaluations of disease prevention and health promotion: an overview of systematic and scoping reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We aimed to provide a comprehensive overview of methodological challenges in economic evaluations of disease prevention and health promotion (DPHP)-measures.

Methods

We conducted an overview of reviews searching MEDLINE, EMBASE, NHS Economic Evaluation Database, Database of Promoting Health Effectiveness Reviews, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) and Database of Promoting Health Effectiveness Reviews (DOPHER) (from their inception to October 2021). We included both systematic and scoping reviews of economic evaluations in DPHP addressing following methodological aspects: (i) attribution of effects, (ii) outcomes, (iii) inter-sectoral (accruing to non-health sectors of society) costs and consequences and (iv) equity. Data were extracted according to th

SUBMITTER: Seleznova Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8605499 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature