1: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis as a Guide to Resource Allocation in
Health: Roles and Limitations
2: Theoretical Foundations of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
3: Framing and Designing the Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
4: Identifying and Valuing Outcomes
5: Assessing the Effectiveness of Health Interventions
6: Estimating Costs in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
7: Time Preference
8: Reflecting Uncertainty in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
9: Reporting Cost-Effectiveness Studies and Results
Appendix A: Summary of Recommendations for the Reference Case
Appendix B: Cost-Effectiveness of Strategies to Prevent Neural Tube
Defects
Appendix C: The Cost-Effectiveness of Dietary and Pharmacologic
Therapy for Cholesterol Reduction in Adults
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Abstract in The American Journal of Public Health
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