Cost-Effectiveness Threshold for Healthcare: Justification and Quantification.

ABSTRACT: Every public health expenditure, including the one that saves lives or extends life expectancy of particular persons (target population), bears a cost. Although cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is routinely performed in health policy, ethical justification of CEA is rarely discussed. Also, there is neither consensus value nor even consensus method for determining cost-effectiveness threshold (CET) for life-extending measures. In this study, we performed ethical analysis of CEA by policy impact assessment based on connection of health and wealth (poorer people have statistically shorter life expectancies) and concluded that CEA is not only a practical but also an ethical necessity. To quantify CET, we used three independent methods: (1) literature survey of analyzing salaries in risky occu

SUBMITTER: Yanovskiy M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9109272 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature