Health Inequalities: To What Extent are Decision-Makers and Economic Evaluations on the Same Page? An English Case Study.

ABSTRACT: Economic evaluations have increasingly sought to understand how funding decisions within care sectors impact health inequalities. However, there is a disconnect between the methods used by researchers (e.g., within universities) and analysts (e.g., within publicly funded commissioning agencies), compared to evidence needs of decision makers in regard to how health inequalities are accounted for and presented. Our objective is to explore how health inequality is defined and quantified in different contexts. We focus on how specific approaches have developed, what similarities and differences have emerged, and consider how disconnects can be bridged. We explore existing methodological research regarding the incorporation of inequality considerations into economic evaluation in order to under

SUBMITTER: Hinde S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9596586 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature