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Towards Investment in Public Health: The Emergence of a Burden of Economic Proof

In: Future Public Health

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  • Richard J. Fordham

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The Wanless Report (2002) called for evidence-based policy in public health and warned that without an economic evaluation evidence base, investment in public health would be hard to justify. In fact, depending on the definition of public health used there have been a considerable number of economic evaluations of these interventions to date, albeit in different countries and across a wide variety of programmes and using varying economic evaluation techniques. Although no simple evaluation framework exists, the consistent message is that many public health programmes can be cost-effective and affordable at currently accepted international thresholds.

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  • Richard J. Fordham, 2009. "Towards Investment in Public Health: The Emergence of a Burden of Economic Proof," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Sandra Dawson & Zoë Slote Morris (ed.), Future Public Health, chapter 13, pages 265-275, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-58254-5_14
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230582545_14
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